Solve : Problem Importing My Outlook Express Folders?

1.	Solve : Problem Importing My Outlook Express Folders?
Answer» Hello all. First post. I just completed a RECOVERY of my laptop. Before I did, I CREATED several folders within Outlook Express to SAVE all of my email in. I then copied those new .dbx folders from the store directory to an external backup drive. After recovering my computer and updating all of my software, I tried to copy in those "newly" created and backed up .dbx files to the store folder. They show up in windows explorer with all of the other normal .dbx email folders, but will not show up when I open Outlook Express. I tried the import method from within OE as well, but when I get to the point of selecting the backup directory and clicking next, I get an error message stating that another program is accessing the files. I am not aware of any other program that would be doing this. The .dbx files are NOT marked as "read only" either. Seems very strange. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I have many EMAILS that I do not want to lose. Thanks. KvitenseSee http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_move_my_outlook_express_folders_to_my_new_machine.html and then try it again.I had already tried that. The files are NOT marked as read only. I still get the same message. It appears the files have content. The one folder I created that had the most emails in it has a value of 102MB, which implies there are emails in that .dbx file. I still can't figure it out. Quote from: kvitense on June 22, 2008, 07:28:03 PM I just completed a recovery of my laptop. Before I did, I created several folders within Outlook Express to save all of my email in. Where was "all" of you email before this step? Was it not in Outlook Express? Here's a different approach: http://www.accuratesolution.net/solutions/oesolution1.htm Yes, "All" of my messages were in OE. At the advice of another web forum user for backing up OE, I created additional folders with slightly different names to copy & paste all of my email into, so that upon importing on my new machine, it would not "confuse" things with the default folder names being imported.Soybean, Thank you SO MUCH for that link!!! The "first" option worked for me. I created new folders in OE that had the EXACT same names as the backed up folders. However, the store directory would not list these newly created folders until I copied an email into the folder from within OE. Only then did the folders show up in the store directory. Once they showed up, I was simply able to move the backed up .dbx folders into my OE store directory. I was able to overwrite the existing folders and when I opened up OE, all of my backed up emails were there. SWEEEET! Thanks again. kvitenseExcellent! Glad to hear problem resolved, and thanks for the feedback.

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Hello all. First post. I just completed a RECOVERY of my laptop. Before I did, I CREATED several folders within Outlook Express to SAVE all of my email in. I then copied those new .dbx folders from the store directory to an external backup drive. After recovering my computer and updating all of my software, I tried to copy in those "newly" created and backed up .dbx files to the store folder. They show up in windows explorer with all of the other normal .dbx email folders, but will not show up when I open Outlook Express. I tried the import method from within OE as well, but when I get to the point of selecting the backup directory and clicking next, I get an error message stating that another program is accessing the files. I am not aware of any other program that would be doing this. The .dbx files are NOT marked as "read only" either. Seems very strange. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I have many EMAILS that I do not want to lose. Thanks.

KvitenseSee http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_move_my_outlook_express_folders_to_my_new_machine.html and then try it again.I had already tried that. The files are NOT marked as read only. I still get the same message. It appears the files have content. The one folder I created that had the most emails in it has a value of 102MB, which implies there are emails in that .dbx file. I still can't figure it out.
Quote from: kvitense on June 22, 2008, 07:28:03 PM

I just completed a recovery of my laptop. Before I did, I created several folders within Outlook Express to save all of my email in.

Where was "all" of you email before this step? Was it not in Outlook Express?

Here's a different approach: http://www.accuratesolution.net/solutions/oesolution1.htm

Yes, "All" of my messages were in OE. At the advice of another web forum user for backing up OE, I created additional folders with slightly different names to copy & paste all of my email into, so that upon importing on my new machine, it would not "confuse" things with the default folder names being imported.Soybean,

Thank you SO MUCH for that link!!! The "first" option worked for me. I created new folders in OE that had the EXACT same names as the backed up folders. However, the store directory would not list these newly created folders until I copied an email into the folder from within OE. Only then did the folders show up in the store directory. Once they showed up, I was simply able to move the backed up .dbx folders into my OE store directory. I was able to overwrite the existing folders and when I opened up OE, all of my backed up emails were there. SWEEEET! Thanks again.

kvitenseExcellent! Glad to hear problem resolved, and thanks for the feedback.

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