AmyJo said:
I backed up Outlook Express files from an old computer onto a CD. I now
want
to be able to open those backed up files thru either Outlook 2003 or
Outlook
Express on my new computer. I can't open the .dbx files I have saved.
Any
suggestions?
So WHY can't you open the saved .dbx files? Keeping it a secret for some
reason? Looks like we're supposed to guess. My guess is that Outlook
complains that it cannot open the file, probably because it needs write
access.
CD is not a complete device acronym. My guess is that it is a CD-ROM or
CD-RW drive. "ROM" means read-only. "R" means ReWritable but it is still a
ROM device otherwise. Any files on a read-only device will also be
read-only. Outlook wants write access to any .pst file that it opens. That
means you must copy the file to some other device on which the file can be
opened for write access. Copy the file from the CD-ROM drive to your hard
drive and make sure to remove the read-only attribute from the file.