Recovering Outlook Express files

[Bill Singletary]

My son upgraded my operating system from Windows 98 to XP Pro. After the
upgrade, none of my email in Outlook Express 6.0 from Windows 98 appeared in
the XP Pro Outlook Express. I had some very important correspondence in the
Windows 98 email program that I want to recover. Any suggestions? I would
greatly appreciate it.

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook]

Hi Bill.

You'll do better posting this question in the correct newsgroup - this one
is for Outlook, not Outlook Express and they are very dissimilar.

--
Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia


see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity:
www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps

www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

My son upgraded my operating system from Windows 98 to XP Pro. After the
upgrade, none of my email in Outlook Express 6.0 from Windows 98
appeared in
the XP Pro Outlook Express. I had some very important correspondence in
the
Windows 98 email program that I want to recover. Any suggestions? I
would
greatly appreciate it.

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002 & 2003 from
the Office
family for Intel PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.mail.mac for the Macintosh version of OE

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this
group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://www.tomsterdam.com



--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[PC]

I can not now remember where the old files were stored in Win98, but do a
search in C: for files ending with a .dbx extension. Then open OE, and
File>Import>Messages, then follow the wizzard.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I can not now remember where the old files were stored in Win98,

I think they're under
C:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\{identityvalue}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express