Outlook, any version from 97 through 2003, has NEVER used .dbx files - they
are used exclusively by Outlook Express, a part of internet Explorer, not
Office.
Where in the world did you get the idea that Outlook 2000 IMO used .dbx
files? Please do not post incorrect information. If you do not know, please
refrain from givng non-useful advice.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head-scratching, William asked this group:
| With OL2000, you should always set up Outlook using the "Corporate or
| Workgroup" option. If you choose Internet Mail only, you get those
| dbx files. With the Corp option, everything is in a .pst file:
| contacts, calendar, mail folders. Much more portable.
|
| You can reconfigure mail support (in Options), opting for Corporate,
| and Outlook will convert all the data in dbx files to the
| outlook.pst. When you archive old data, that goes into an
| archive.pst file.
|
| Some people move their pst files to a folder in My Documents for ease
| in backing up. Outlook is easily reconfigured for the new location.
| I've done this for years successfully. Any time I have to move an
| Outlook account to a new computer, I first convert to Corporate.
|
| With Office 2002 and 2003, you get an outlook.pst file automatically.
| Thank goodness.
|
| Have a good one.
| Bill
|
| || I have the same problem - I copied my (Outlook 2000) .dbx files to a
|| CD when
|| I bought my new computer, but I can't find where to put them. The
|| following
|| directory doesn't exist on my hard drive, and a search doesn't find
|| any other
|| .dbx files. Also, when I installed Outlook on my new computer, I
|| don't have a
|| "Sent Items" folder. Any clues??
||
|| Allan
||
|| "R J" wrote:
||
||| C > Documents and Settings > User (your sign on) > Local settings >
||| Application data > Identities > (long string of letters and numbers)
||| >Microsoft > Outlook Express > (They are all *.dbx files)
|||
||| |||| I want to transfer my Outlook files and folders from my current HD
|||| to my new
|||| one. I'll do this by burning CD-R discs and after installing the
|||| new HD,
|||| copying them to the new drive.
||||
|||| I can't find any folders called "Mail", "Inbox", or any of the
|||| folders I
|||| created in Outlook by searching My Computer.
||||
|||| Dell Inspiron 600m; Win XP; Outlook 5? (Details discloses that
|||| Outlook is
|||| version "10.0.4510.0").
||||
|||| Thanks,
|||| --
|||| Please, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn't
|||| ask a question here if I hadn't done that already.
||||
|||| DaveC
|||| (e-mail address removed)
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