Thanks for your help and prompt replies. I understand what you are
saying. I haven't figured out what has happened because when I look at the
date modified on the.dbx files they are when I last used outlook!


"Gary Smith" wrote in message
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I had a partial failure of my hard drive. I was able to find and save
my outlook .dbx files, which have and identity number. I reinstalled
outlook on a new hard drive and now I cannot correctly load the .dbx files
which are stored in a large file with an identity number. How do I restore
outlook indentity folders?