Finding My Old Email Messages

[SusieQ]

I recently moved to XP. I had a new hard drive installed on my computer with XP on it and currently it is my C drive. My old C drive is slaved to my new C drive as a D drive now. So far I have had no major glitches except one. I cannot figure out how to get my old messages from my outlook express. When I do a search, I find a lot of items listed as inbox. One of them is very large file and I am assuming that is my messages. The line looks like this:

D:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{E17F5100-1EBC-11D5-BB42-AF215416A355}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

My question is can I copy these messages to my current outlook express and if so how is this accomplished?

[NooNoo]

OK, what you do is, search your d: drive for *.dbx files - make sure hidden files and folders are searched.

Having got the folder name for where those dbx's are stored you open your current copy of outlook express and click file, import, messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express Version 5 or 6. Click Next.
Then select "import from a OE5 or OE6 Store Directory". (Radio button at the bottom) Click OK, then browse to the folder you found earlier, click next and follow the rest of the wizard.

[SusieQ]

OK, what you do is, search your d: drive for *.dbx files - make sure hidden files and folders are searched.

Having got the folder name for where those dbx's are stored you open your current copy of outlook express and click file, import, messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express Version 5 or 6. Click Next.
Then select "import from a OE5 or OE6 Store Directory". (Radio button at the bottom) Click OK, then browse to the folder you found earlier, click next and follow the rest of the wizard.

Noo Noo, thanks for the advice, I did it and now have all of my email messages back. One more question, is there any way of getting back my email rules and blocked senders list... Just a thought. But again, thanks, it worked like a charm. I could not figure out what to do with them once I found them. But in the end it was simple... SusieQ

[NooNoo]

AS far as I know, those have to be exported first.... but mayhaps some one knows a way?

[Spork]

I don't believe this is possible. I had the same problem about a month ago when I upgraded to a new hard drive. I was able to retrieve all my emails from the slave drive, but I was unable to get anything else such as my address book. Good thing I had an old backup from a year ago and was able to track down all the rest of my email addresses from people.

I was told that if I had been using Outlook then I could've retrieved it all (cause it automatically backs it up and saves it to a folder), but Outlook Express does not so if you don't back it up manually, then you can't retrieve it.

[SusieQ]

I don't believe this is possible. I had the same problem about a month ago when I upgraded to a new hard drive. I was able to retrieve all my emails from the slave drive, but I was unable to get anything else such as my address book. Good thing I had an old backup from a year ago and was able to track down all the rest of my email addresses from people.

I was told that if I had been using Outlook then I could've retrieved it all (cause it automatically backs it up and saves it to a folder), but Outlook Express does not so if you don't back it up manually, then you can't retrieve it.

Thanks for the time, I believe that you are correct in that. I just don't like Outlook. I guess I will have to recreate my rules as I go and if that's my only problem with the switch, then it is a minor one. SusieQ

[valley]

AS far as I know, those have to be exported first.... but mayhaps some one knows a way?

Hello I have a problem trying to import a DBX file in to OE
in a New XP installation.

I can't see the .dbx files in the import wizard window for some reason

I have checked the prperty of the files and found they are compressed but not hidden.

I have done this before by simply dragging the folder to the NEW OE
store folder in Identities but it doesn't work.

Any idea how to get the compressed .DBX file to appear in OE

Does anyone know the exact registry key whjere the list of
.dbx files are listed ? Obviously all the .dbx files in the folder do not
appear when you open OE .

Any help will be deeply appreciated

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Valley

this may be the problem

or you may have missed something - read here

You say compressed - compressed with what?