Addind dbx files for Outlook Express ...

P

Patch

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
 
G

Gordon

Patch said:
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/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
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!
 
F

Fred

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

Any more questions will go to the appropriate news group.

John
 

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