Merging Outlook Express data

[darkhorse]

Here's the situation:

PC 1 has emails in Outlook Express folders that require transferring to Outlook Express on PC2.

Simply exporting and importing is not the answer as it would overwrite the inbox.dbx (and other matching .dbx) email data currently in use on PC2 (right?)

How would you approach this?

Got a feeling it might involve renaming .dbx files at some point so that PC1's Inbox Folder would become an Old Inbox Folder (i.e. inbox.dbx -> oldinbox.dbx), then finally moving individual emails to other OE email folders as required from within running OE itself.

[CeeBee]

Your intuition is correct....just make a backup before anything....

[DonJ]

If you are using the Import Wizard, it will not delete your present messages. It will add the new messages and will then create new .dbx files.

Check it out via the Outlook Express/Help/Contents:

Using the Outlook Express Import Wizard, you can easily import e-mail messages from a variety of popular Internet e-mail programs such as Netscape Communicator and Eudora, as well as from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook.

On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.

Select the e-mail program you want to import messages from, and then click Next.

Verify the location of your messages, and then click Next.

Choose All folders to import all the messages, and then click Next. You can also choose Selected Folders to import messages from one or more folders.

Click Finish.