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

"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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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

"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

"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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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

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