Cant open mail store

[Guest]

I had RC1 installed on an Intel-P4 PC and was using windows mail.
The mother board failed so i pulled the hard drive and put it in a new PC.
The OS wouldnt start (New Pc was AMD) so i reinstalled RC1. Had to do a clean
install as repair etc wouldnt work.

Windows mail cannot open the existing email store, even tho the
..msmessagestore etc are still there (the mail folder was not touched, as I
store my email on D:\mail rather then the default path).
when i try to open the email get error 0x080004005,997 MSOE.DLL could not be
initialised.
If i set the mail store to an empty folder and try to import, it tells me
ther are no messages.

I NEED some of these lost emails! please help
J Cullen
MCSE

 

[Jim Pickering]

What is the format of the files in the old message store? Are they DBX
files from Outlook Express? Is D: a networked drive or a local drive? MSOE
is for Outlook Express so you should not be getting any error messages
concerning it.

How are you changing the mail store location? Are you first creating a
folder and then using the menu in Windows Mail to relocate it, or are you
just making changes in the registry? You leave too much information out of
your posting to get a helpful answer.

 

[Guest]

Actually its c:\mail not D:\ my bad.So its the local hard drive.

I change it by 1st opening mail and creating the default store, then by
using the preferences in mail, maintainence tab, changing store folder there.

in th mail folder there are edb files. and a file called
WindowsMail.MSMessage store, a file called Windowsmail.pat and edbxxxxx.log a
folder called back up and one called Local Folders

 

[Steve Cochran]

The messages are not in the database file, so you can easily recover those.

First change the store back to its default location or another location, so
that WinMail opens properly. Then look under the old location for the Local
Folders directory. Under that are subdirectories that match the WinMail
folders. Within those subdirectories are the individual messages stored as
eml files. To reincorporate them into WinMail (or OE), then just drag them
overtop the message list in a WinMail (or OE) folder and drop them.

steve