I had to redo my wife's laptop, and could not export her OE files (error
said could not initialize MAPI ?????), so I copied all her dbx files
(inbox.dbx,etc) to our server.

When done, I simply copied those files back to the appropriate directory,
but not all folders show up, and not all messages in the folder appear.

Why can't you simply copy dbx folders around, using the same user name?? I
tried to import instead of just copying but not all folders show up as
available for import.

I guess I wonder how the messages in the dbx folders are encoding or
whatever, and why some are not recognized.

Thanks for any insight here ...

John

"Patch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I had to redo my wife's laptop, and could not export her OE files (error
> said could not initialize MAPI ?????), so I copied all her dbx files
> (inbox.dbx,etc) to our server.
>
> When done, I simply copied those files back to the appropriate directory,
> but not all folders show up, and not all messages in the folder appear.
>
> Why can't you simply copy dbx folders around, using the same user name??
I
> tried to import instead of just copying but not all folders show up as
> available for import.
>
> I guess I wonder how the messages in the dbx folders are encoding or
> whatever, and why some are not recognized.
>
> Thanks for any insight here ...
>
> John
>
>

Backup and Restore OE
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/new...ternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

Thanks ... that first link explained everything I needed ....

Any more questions will go to the appropriate news group.

John

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Patch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I had to redo my wife's laptop, and could not export her OE files (error
> > said could not initialize MAPI ?????), so I copied all her dbx files
> > (inbox.dbx,etc) to our server.
> >
> > When done, I simply copied those files back to the appropriate
directory,
> > but not all folders show up, and not all messages in the folder appear.
> >
> > Why can't you simply copy dbx folders around, using the same user name??
> I
> > tried to import instead of just copying but not all folders show up as
> > available for import.
> >
> > I guess I wonder how the messages in the dbx folders are encoding or
> > whatever, and why some are not recognized.
> >
> > Thanks for any insight here ...
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
> Backup and Restore OE
> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm
>
> This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
> 97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
> Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.
>
> For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
> microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
> an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
> accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
> Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
>
http://communities.microsoft.com/new...ternetExplorer
> to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
> your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
> version number. Good luck!
>
>
>

"Fred" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks ... that first link explained everything I needed ....
>

That's the best place for OE questions bar none!