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David D. Hunt - 31 Dec 2003 18:11 GMT

I have OE5. I have a file of several hundred email
messages from someone that I wanted to be certain and
save. I tried the methods I read in OE Help and they
didn't work for me. I moved this file to My Documents in
Windows and also to a zip disc. But it is in format .dbx
and I cannot read the messages. I tried to move it back
to OE but can't do it. Any suggestions or have I messed
things up for good? Thanks in advance.

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Michael Santovec - 31 Dec 2003 19:08 GMT

You have not message up things for good. Your messages are recoverable. But you can't
just move a file into the OE folder and have OE recognize it.

Backing Up, Recovering and Restoring Outlook Express versions 5 & 6 Files and Settings
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

The end of the first article above explains how to get a single DBX file back into OE

Or you can use the following program to convert the DBX file to EML files (one per
message).
DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
EML files can be read directly by OE.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

> I have OE5. I have a file of several hundred email
> messages from someone that I wanted to be certain and
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> to OE but can't do it. Any suggestions or have I messed
> things up for good? Thanks in advance.

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