..dbx files must be opened or imported (don't know - don't use OE) in Outlook Express first and then exported to Outlook.
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After furious head scratching, Stephen asked:
| I don't know. I no longer have access to my old profile to check.
|
| However, in my new profile's email program, under the "help"
| dropdown, one option is "about Microsoft Outlook"; and the details
| are:
|
| Microsoft® Outlook® 2000 SR-1
| Internet Mail Only
|
| I would therefore assume it is not Express; although (if memory
| serves) the environment looks very similar to my old email program,
| which I think you are saying MUST have been Express (and every other
| aspect of my old profile copied across exactly). Thus I'm a bit
| confused.
|
| In any event, what I would like to do is import the *.dbx files so
| they populate the folders in my present application.
|
| Thanks, Stephen
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| ..dbx files are from Outlook Express, not Outlook. Which program
|| were you using?
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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|| After furious head scratching, Stephen asked:
||
||| Milly, thanks for this. However, my problem is that all emails
||| pre-dating the incident I refer to are no longer in their respective
||| In Box / Sent Items / Deleted Items / etc. folers, and my address
||| book is empty too.
|||
||| I have located the outlook.pst file you refer to. Incidentally, I
||| have also located a raft of *.dbx files which contain the content of
||| my old emails in WordPad. However, I don't know how to import these
||| files into Outlook 2000 so they repopulate my folders.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Your profile loss should have nothing to do with your data store.
||||
|||| Find your outlook.pst file (or just *.pst if searching) and open it
|||| in your new profile.
||||
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Stephen asked:
||||
||||| I accidentally lost my own (i.e. administrator) profile when
||||| setting my girlfriend up with her own profile on my home PC
||||| (Windows XP).
|||||
||||| After much sweat, I managed to locate my old profile in
||||| C:\Documents and Settings and save the files across to a new
||||| profile. However, my old emails, addresses, etc. in Outlook 2000
||||| have not come across. Can anyone help?
|||||
||||| Thanks, Stephen
