Get Outlook Express .PBX Files Into Outlook 2007

[Jay Rennemeyer]

On my old computer Outlook Express has some kind of problem that won't allow
me to export my messages to an Outlook compatible format, and reinstalling
hasn't worked. All I have are the .PBX files that Express uses. Is there
any way to get these messages into Outlook 2007?

Thanks,

Jay

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Assuming you actually mean DBX files, no. You can only access DBX files with
OE. Once you do, you can export them to Outlook. There has never been any
intermediary "format" to which you need to export, so your post is an odd
one that doesn't make sense.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Outlook cannot directly read OE files; it does this via OE or Windows Mail.
Also pbx-files are an old format of OE which you first need to upgrade. It
is best to start this at an OE newsgroup. Once you've got OE configured with
your files you can choose Export from within OE to export them to Outlook.

Here is the link for the right forum
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

Good Luck!

 

[Jay Rennemeyer]

Well, the oddity here is that OE is on my old computer and cannot export to
an Outlook format because of a problem initializing MAPI. My attempts to
reload OE have failed because every setup has IE packaged with it. The setup
complains that I have a new IE on the computer so it won't load anything. I
have unloaded IE and killed the svhost that keeps putting it back to no
avail. So now I have several .DBX files that are worthless to me because I
don't feel like completely reloading my old computer just to get OE on and
alive long enough to export to an Outlook format. And I don't dare load it
on my new machine because God only knows what that will screw up!

Then there is the .WAB file, which is also worthless, but that's another
thread.

Another wasted day in the land of Microsoft! >:-(

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Thanks,

Jay

Assuming you actually mean DBX files, no. You can only access DBX files with
OE. Once you do, you can export them to Outlook. There has never been any
intermediary "format" to which you need to export, so your post is an odd
one that doesn't make sense.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On my old computer Outlook Express has some kind of problem that won't
allow
me to export my messages to an Outlook compatible format, and reinstalling
hasn't worked. All I have are the .PBX files that Express uses. Is there
any way to get these messages into Outlook 2007?

Thanks,

Jay

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm not seeing an Outlook question here. If you are having problems
installing OE, ask in an OE group.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Well, the oddity here is that OE is on my old computer and cannot export
to
an Outlook format because of a problem initializing MAPI. My attempts to
reload OE have failed because every setup has IE packaged with it. The
setup
complains that I have a new IE on the computer so it won't load anything.
I
have unloaded IE and killed the svhost that keeps putting it back to no
avail. So now I have several .DBX files that are worthless to me because
I
don't feel like completely reloading my old computer just to get OE on and
alive long enough to export to an Outlook format. And I don't dare load
it
on my new machine because God only knows what that will screw up!

Then there is the .WAB file, which is also worthless, but that's another
thread.

Another wasted day in the land of Microsoft! >:-(

--
Thanks,

Jay

Assuming you actually mean DBX files, no. You can only access DBX files
with
OE. Once you do, you can export them to Outlook. There has never been any
intermediary "format" to which you need to export, so your post is an odd
one that doesn't make sense.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
message

On my old computer Outlook Express has some kind of problem that won't
allow
me to export my messages to an Outlook compatible format, and
reinstalling
hasn't worked. All I have are the .PBX files that Express uses. Is
there
any way to get these messages into Outlook 2007?

Thanks,

Jay

 

[Gordon]

Well, the oddity here is that OE is on my old computer and cannot export
to
an Outlook format because of a problem initializing MAPI.

Do you have Outlook (not Outlook EXPRESS) installed on the old computer? if
not, that's why you can't do it. You need to transfer ALL the dbx files to
the new machine, import into Windows mail (assuming Vista on the new
machine) and then do the export to Outlook.

HTH