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by linda

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HELP!!
I have stupidly moved my store folders from Outlook Express and they have
now been replaced with others in OE. I have put all the old folders in
one place so I know where they are and they currently have .dbx extensions - but I am unable to view them now as I
don't know which programme to open them with - MSIMN doesn't work. (it just
opens up OE when I click on a folder).
How can I move them all back to OE and merge them with the folders now
there? Any ideas?

Which programme do I need to open them with so that I can read them? even
if I can't move them back! I have tried several. I have also tried importing them but they are not recognised as messages at the moment (I suppose I need to change the ext.) If I check the properties of the folders I - all the info is there re. size.

Does anyone know of a programme that will allow me to read these folders, and the seperate e-mails in them, outside of OE?

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by soekratis

Don't be panic. go to your user profiles.
copy all your ".dbx" file in to "Application Data-Identities-{FC000000-000000-000000-000000}-Microsoft-Outlook Express" directory. (over-write if necessary) Make sure OE is close before copying it. Once this is done, run OE and you will see all the folder and mails as it was. good luck.

Regards
Soekratis

by quickshadowman

How did you move them? I have found that moving them by the options within OE that OE still accessed them but slower since they were no longer in the defult location. So I made a copy of the original folders after restoring them to the defualt location, to another HD. Even though still in the .dbx, they can be read by WordPad. You will have some garbage in there, but once you get to the letters themselves, they are easy to read. I did this, so I could archive my mail, and deleted everything in the original folders, so I could start again with empty folders. I tried to get answers from people on how to do this but didn't get any answers that worked, so I played with this on my own and came up with this solution. May not be the best way, but at least it works. Hope this helps you.

Rich

by linda

It would appear that this is the only option open to me. It just means that at some point in the future I will have to go through and edit the information I want.

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