Please Help!!! Restoring outlook express messages

[Guest]

I recently had a hard drive crash. Once I received the new hard drive I
re-installed the Outlook Express software. I also had the messages from the
bad hard drive retrieved and saved to an external hard drive. I am now
trying to Import the data from the external hard drive to OE using the "File"
"Import" "Messages" "Microsoft Outlook Express 6" commands. Once I
locate the file I click on the next and I get the following message.

No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running
that has the required files open. Please select another folder or try
closing applications that may have files open.

Does anyone know what this means and what I can do to import my messages,
phonebook, etc?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I recently had a hard drive crash. Once I received the new hard drive I
re-installed the Outlook Express software. I also had the messages from
the
bad hard drive retrieved and saved to an external hard drive. I am now
trying to Import the data from the external hard drive to OE using the
"File"
"Import" "Messages" "Microsoft Outlook Express 6" commands. Once I
locate the file I click on the next and I get the following message.

No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running
that has the required files open. Please select another folder or try
closing applications that may have files open.

Does anyone know what this means and what I can do to import my messages,
phonebook, etc?

For Outlook Express support, you'll want to ask in the
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general newsgroup.

Since you're also using the web based newsreader rather than outlook
express, you might want to use
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
(or, since you're using Outlook Express for mail, look at the steps in
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/newsgroups101.mspx for
how to set up OE to use the microsoft newsgroup server).