Can't open imported OE Sent Items.dbx

[Steve Cochran]

Please read www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx completely. WinMail will import
from an archived OE message store if you follow the exact steps on my
website (see also
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/53e5df86-5ffb-43cf-a0c8-164e3fe7994f1033.mspx).
But you cannot import a single dbx file into WinMail. The import mechanism
will not do that.

If you suspect your dbx files are corrupt, you can try opening them in
Notepad and paging through to see if there are message pieces in it. If you
get a blank file, then there is nothing in it and nothing can get any
messages out of it. Alternatively, if the file is corrupt, but appears to
have readable text in it in places, then one of my extraction programs
(DBXpress is the most accurate and fastest: www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) will
extract the messages out of the dbx file as eml files that can then be
dragged into WinMail folders.

steve

 

[DMD guy]

Finally something worked. That answered my question about testing if a file
is corrupted. When I opened the copy of my sent items, from my desktop, in
notepad,
I could actually see some of my emails. Lots of unrecognizable stuff was
there too.
As for following the directions on your site exactly, I don't have the
ability to do that when it comes to registry keys. I don't know anything
about them. What they are?
where they are? how to export them? I have been going to your site since
March 30,
but that was one of a few things I don't understand.
If you think there is a good chance that DBXpress will find and recover my
original inbox, that is my ultimate goal, so I would like to do that. If it
couldn't recover my
Inbox, maybe I could use it to recover these Sent Items. The problem there
is that my old laptop is an ME. I saw your "Concerns" area said DBXpress
wouldn't work for ME so I would have to go straight to my old HD with my new
laptop and I don't know how to do that. Thanks again for your help
Larry

 

[Steve Cochran]

You don't need to worry about the registry keys. If you get DBXtract
(www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/) it should be sufficient to extract the messages
(eml files) from the dbx files. Then you can drag those from Explorer into
WinMail folders.

steve

 

[zhyl]

I have OE 5 Sent Items.dbxand Folders.dbx(from my old ME laptop) with my
Windows Mail directory files on my new Vista laptop, but Sent Items won't
open. When I click on it, my new WM Inbox opens instead. My old Sent Items
file retained its 221mb size in the move. When I open the WM program and
see my Inbox, the old Sent Items aren't showing as folders on the left side.
But if I search in the directory path: C drive\users\my name\Application Date\
Local\Microsoft\windows mail\local folders\sent items -- it is there full
size.
I have placed it there by itself, then dragged and dropped into the other sent
items folder with folder.dbx -- either way, the 221mb of sent items do not
appear.
Thanks in advance for any help. I've spent many hours and days trying to get
this to work.

Hi,

I think you can try a utility called Advanced Outlook Express Repair
to repair your Outlook Express dbx file. It works rather well for my
corrupt Outlook Express dbx files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/aoer/

Alan

 

[zhyl]

I have OE 5 Sent Items.dbxand Folders.dbx(from my old ME laptop) with my
Windows Mail directory files on my new Vista laptop, but Sent Items won't
open. When I click on it, my new WM Inbox opens instead. My old Sent Items
file retained its 221mb size in the move. When I open the WM program and
see my Inbox, the old Sent Items aren't showing as folders on the left side.
But if I search in the directory path: C drive\users\my name\Application Date\
Local\Microsoft\windows mail\local folders\sent items -- it is there full
size.
I have placed it there by itself, then dragged and dropped into the other sent
items folder with folder.dbx -- either way, the 221mb of sent items do not
appear.
Thanks in advance for any help. I've spent many hours and days trying to get
this to work.

Hi,

After having tried various of methods without improvement, you can
have a try to use special utility to repair your Outlook Express dbx
file. I know one, called Advanced Outlook Express Repair.
Fortunately , It worked rather well for my corrupt Outlook Express dbx
files last time. I think it may be helpful to you. You can download it
from the following address .Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/aoer/

Alan

 

[MariaJD]

I moved my Outlook Express 6 folders to Windows Mail and they are now in an
"Imported" folder ubder "LocalFolders" in Windows Mail. I wish to move some
of the imported folders out of the "Imported" folder and put them under the
Winows Mail "Local Folders" so that I can continue sorting my mail into the
same folders. I am hoping that I do not have to make duplicate folders in
the Windows Mail

 

[t-4-2]

There might be a faster way. I only know this one.
Under Local Folder or In-box, right click,
click New Folder,
enter a name that will be corresponding to the folder you want to move,
click OK,
go to Imported Folder and look for that folder, open it,
left click on one of the messages inside that folder, anyone,
press Ctrl key and Hold, press A key. You'll see the messages are all
shaded ",
Right click on the shaded area, choose Move To Folder,
the new folder which you had just named will appear and highlighted. click
OK,
Messages have now been moved to the new folder.
If you have more than one folder under Imported Folder, repeat the above
procedures.
Afterwards, you can delete all the folders under Imported Folder. They are
empty anyway.

t-4-2

 

[MariaJD]

Thanks.
--
MariaJD

There might be a faster way. I only know this one.
Under Local Folder or In-box, right click,
click New Folder,
enter a name that will be corresponding to the folder you want to move,
click OK,
go to Imported Folder and look for that folder, open it,
left click on one of the messages inside that folder, anyone,
press Ctrl key and Hold, press A key. You'll see the messages are all
shaded ",
Right click on the shaded area, choose Move To Folder,
the new folder which you had just named will appear and highlighted. click
OK,
Messages have now been moved to the new folder.
If you have more than one folder under Imported Folder, repeat the above
procedures.
Afterwards, you can delete all the folders under Imported Folder. They are
empty anyway.

t-4-2