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Help: Unable to Import OE6 emails from back-up store folder

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Awic H. Deles - 13 Jun 2004 19:33 GMT
Hi,

I'm running Windows 98 with IE6 and OE6 installed and as my practice, I
usually change my OE6's store folder to somewhere else in my directory. The
problem starts when I try to use the File->Import function to "recover"
certain .dbx (emails) from the back-up store folder. It doesn't work,
instead I continously get this prompt:

"No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running
that has the required files open.
Please select another folder or try closing applications that may have files
open."

Now, im fairly sure I have no other application messing with dbx files
(antivirus or firewall perhaps?)
This is kinda surprising (ok, shocking) since I was able to do it before
without any of these issues....so anybody got any ideas why ?

Thanks for any advice!

Allen
Jim Pickering - 13 Jun 2004 22:07 GMT
Do a file search for all files ending with DBX.  Those you find in another
folder than your default Mail Store folder are most likely the missing ones.
If you move the message store w/o first creating a folder to contain the
files, there is a very good possibility you will lose the old, stored
messages completely if you are not careful.  Did you first create an empty
folder to contain the files before using the Move button on OE's
Tools/Options/Maintenance?
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> Hi,
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> Allen
Awic H. Deles - 14 Jun 2004 09:19 GMT
Yes, I did. I may have stumbled on the solution actually...(thanks to Tom's
site www.tomsterdam.com).... it may have something to do with the
Folders.dbx...not exactly sure why, but if I move it to where all the other
.dbx files directory is stored...it magically restores the dbx folders and
its corresponding messages.

> Do a file search for all files ending with DBX.  Those you find in another
> folder than your default Mail Store folder are most likely the missing ones.
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> > Allen
Gordon - 14 Jun 2004 13:44 GMT
> Yes, I did. I may have stumbled on the solution actually...(thanks to Tom's
> site www.tomsterdam.com).... it may have something to do with the
> Folders.dbx...

Folders.dbx is the Index file for the message store - it's that file that
tells OE that there are in fact message files there.....
 
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