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re: Saving Outlook Express Folders
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:58 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe
(5 messages posted)
In my case the recipient PC has already run OE and will have data in it's OE folder,
so just replacing it with the old OE folder seems tricky. Is this where the import
mechanism sorts it out? I suppose converting DBX files to, say, Word folders
is not practicable? Regards
On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:33 am, C K wrote:
>Actually very simple. If you know where the DBX files are, just copy and paste
the
>OE store folder that they are in to another HDD or magnetic/solid state media.
Best
>NOT to use an optical drive because as much as 50% of the time, they will be corrupted
>when burned, and then they have to be copied back to an HDD and the file attributes
>reset from read only to archive so that the import process in OE will work for restoration.
>
>OE has an Import/Export option but I find the Export option cumbersome and to many
>needless steps.
>
>So all you really have to do is copy the OE folder that has the DBX files and paste
>it to another drive or location on a network etc for backup. Make sure that OE
in
>the identity that you are backing up isn't loaded. If/when you have to restore
them,
>you use the Import process in OE, point to the location where the store folder is
>stored, follow the prompts and they will be imported to your new OE installation.
> Same process for saving and importing the address book which is a .WAB file (extension)
>in a different directory than the OE folder.
>
>Alternatively, here are the MS KB articles if you want to use their process:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q270670
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>This works for OE6 as well IME:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;276511
>
>There may be some free backup utilities online, but I don't have a need for them
>myself so can't help there. There used to be a decent one but it has been removed
>due to some incompatibilities.
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