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Restoring Email From .DBX files

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by surrealx 1 view

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My computer crashed and all I managed to restore was a bunch of .dbx files from the Outlook express store directory. However when trying to restore them to Outlook Express (through file/import..) it tells me it cannot find any messages in the folder specified. All the .dbx files are there, however. Does anybody know if there is another way to resotre from these files, or if there is some patch that can be run on these files to fix them if they have become corrupt.

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by mm212

If you are using the same version of Outlook Express, just copy the files into your new Outlook Express mailbox folder. It can be found at C:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\\Outlook Express. Just copy the .dbx files into that folder, overwriting what is there (assuming you don't need anything currently in your OE mailbox). Start OE and you'll find all your folders and messages intact.

by surrealx

I tried this, but it didn't work. I then found out that I needed to rename the folders.dbx and then it recreated the folder list to include the coppied over .dbx files. Later I worked out that my original problem was that the .dbx files were read only. I had copied them from a CD and thus they had remained read only. After changing that, it imported fine. Strange. But thanks anyway.

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