How to restore OE backup

[Guest]

Hi,
My Packard Bell WXP desktop PC which is only 10mths old had been playing up
so I backed up OE folders etc with the windows back up facility, to an
external hard drive and did a complete system restore.
The first problem I had restoring my backup was that it was restored, not to
the original location, but to a temp folder on the hard drive and whilst I
was happy to cut and paste my favourites to where it should be, I'm not too
sure about the OE backup. I can't read it as it's a dbx file but does anyone
know whether it's safe for me to just cut and paste into OE?
I cut and pasted my music files into My Music folder and now Windows Media
player won't recognise them!
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Sylvia

 

[WB]

Hi,
My Packard Bell WXP desktop PC which is only 10mths old had been playing
up
so I backed up OE folders etc with the windows back up facility, to an
external hard drive and did a complete system restore.
The first problem I had restoring my backup was that it was restored, not
to
the original location, but to a temp folder on the hard drive and whilst I
was happy to cut and paste my favourites to where it should be, I'm not
too
sure about the OE backup. I can't read it as it's a dbx file but does
anyone
know whether it's safe for me to just cut and paste into OE?
I cut and pasted my music files into My Music folder and now Windows Media
player won't recognise them!
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Sylvia

For IE, File, Import & Export (favorites)
For OE, File, Import, Messages

 

[Guest]

For IE, File, Import & Export (favorites)
For OE, File, Import, Messages

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woundedback
Please drive safely

Sorry but this only gives me an option of importing from another EMail client. I cannot see an option to import from the backup destination.

 

[Gordon]

Underneath that window is a radio button option to import from a message
store. Check that and then navigate to the folder where your old dbx files
are. Note: this will NOT work if you did NOT include the file called
folders.dbx in your backup. If that is the case then you will have to use a
workaround for it.

HTH

 

[WB]

Choose MS OE 6.0
Next
Message store and browse for location

 

[Guest]

Choose MS OE 6.0
Next
Message store and browse for location

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woundedback
Please drive safely

This worked perfectly................many thanks.
Sylvia

 

[WB]

You're welcome