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Old November 6th 08, 09:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Andrew Stucken[_2_]
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When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost my
most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken

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Old November 6th 08, 10:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
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"Andrew Stucken" wrote in message
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When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my
most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken

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Old November 6th 08, 11:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
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Patience is a virtue, Andrew. See replies to your first thread.

Importing an Address Book has no affect whatsoever on your OE folders.

References:

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

All About Address Book
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm
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Andrew Stucken wrote:
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken


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Old November 7th 08, 01:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
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"Andrew Stucken" wrote in message
...
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my
most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken



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Old November 8th 08, 02:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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"Andrew Stucken" wrote in message
...
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my
most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?



Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
and
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
Number 1
and
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
and
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ten.mspx#E3EAC

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Old November 9th 08, 06:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Andrew Stucken[_2_]
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Default Restoring mail folders

I should have given a better origonal description of the issue. My apologies.
I actually created the problem of missing e-mails by overwriting the existing
folders from an out of-date backup created using the OE Quick Backup
programme.

However, as stated, I do luckily have a separate whole disk back-up (a
straightforward replication to an external hard drive which is much more
recent, not an OEQB one).

I was therefore wondering whether I could now copy and paste the *.dbx
folders to my C: drive from the external hard drive to resolve this issue.

TIA

Andrew Stucken


"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" wrote:

"Andrew Stucken" wrote in message
...
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my
most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?



Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
and
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
Number 1
and
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
and
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ten.mspx#E3EAC

--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
Do not reply with email


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Old November 14th 08, 07:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Andrew Stucken[_2_]
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Default Restoring mail folders

Simple solution: I imported the files from Outlook. I had earlier imoported
them to Outlook from OE.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

Patience is a virtue, Andrew. See replies to your first thread.

Importing an Address Book has no affect whatsoever on your OE folders.

References:

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

All About Address Book
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Andrew Stucken wrote:
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken



 




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