I am not able to read old .dbx folders in Outlook Express 6.

[Luciano]

Hello,
I am a Windows XP with Outlook Express 6 user.
Few days ago I have lost all the OE6 folders! I do not know how it is
happened to me, I have just swiched on my PC and the OE6 folders were
absolutely new, without mail inside: only the Inbox folder was
receiving new mail.
I can say that my mail folders were very great: for example, the Inbox
folder was about 430 Mb.
I have looked for all .dbx file in my disk and I have found the old
..dbx in the same place together with the new ones: the old Inbox,
Outbox and so on were renaimed as the same name plus (1)!
There were also my old local .dbx with their original names.
A friend of mine suggested me to close OE6, then to cancel the file
folders.dbx and at the end to open again OE6.
I did it but my problem was unsolved so I have tried to import these
folders using the import function of OE6: OE6 was able to recognize
only the new folders, not the old ones.
My last attempt was to import all my mail in Outlook 2000: again, it
recognizes only the new mail boxes....
How can I solve my problem?
Thanks a lot in advance for your kind help and best regards,
Luciano Valle

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Ask in an Outlook Express forum. This is an Microsoft Office Outlook forum.

Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family.

Here is the link for the right forum
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