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I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I cannot
re-import them to OE as I did not back them up. MailNavigator will access
them but I find the user interface difficult to use compared with the
display format of OE. Is there any other software that will display the
folders, files and newsgroup messages that I saved from the previous
incarnation of OE before I had to reload the software?

"SS" <> wrote in message
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>I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I cannot
> re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.

Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files, import
them. File->Import->Messages->OE6

then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files

MailNavigator will access
> them but I find the user interface difficult to use compared with the
> display format of OE. Is there any other software that will display the
> folders, files and newsgroup messages that I saved from the previous
> incarnation of OE before I had to reload the software?
>
>





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SS wrote:
> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up. MailNavigator
> will access them but I find the user interface difficult to use
> compared with the display format of OE. Is there any other software
> that will display the folders, files and newsgroup messages that I
> saved from the previous incarnation of OE before I had to reload the
> software?

Just opening them (click on) should open them in OE.

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Mike Easter wrote:
> Dan Evans wrote:
>> "SS"
>
>>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.
>>
>> Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files,
>> import them. File->Import->Messages->OE6
>
> Insert check the radio button for 'From an OE store directory' instead
> of the default from an OE identity.
>
>> then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files

And neither of those will work if the OP did not backup the folders.dbx
file.

dadiOH wrote:
> SS wrote:
>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up. MailNavigator
>> will access them but I find the user interface difficult to use
>> compared with the display format of OE. Is there any other software
>> that will display the folders, files and newsgroup messages that I
>> saved from the previous incarnation of OE before I had to reload the
>> software?
>
> Just opening them (click on) should open them in OE.

No it won't - they have to be imported into OE.

SS wrote:
> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.

So where are these files if you didn't back them up, and why cannot you
import them into OE?

Dan Evans wrote:
> "SS"

>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.
>
> Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files,
> import them. File->Import->Messages->OE6

Insert check the radio button for 'From an OE store directory' instead
of the default from an OE identity.

> then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files


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"Gordon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Dan Evans wrote:
>>> "SS"
>>
>>>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>>>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.
>>>
>>> Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files,
>>> import them. File->Import->Messages->OE6
>>
>> Insert check the radio button for 'From an OE store directory' instead
>> of the default from an OE identity.
>>
>>> then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files
>
> And neither of those will work if the OP did not backup the folders.dbx
> file.

I've never backed it, but imported the mail with every reinstall. If it's
*missing* then yes, the OP is screwed.

Dan





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Dan Evans wrote:

>
> "Gordon" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> Dan Evans wrote:
>>>> "SS"
>>>
>>>>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>>>>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up.
>>>>
>>>> Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files,
>>>> import them. File->Import->Messages->OE6
>>>
>>> Insert check the radio button for 'From an OE store directory' instead
>>> of the default from an OE identity.
>>>
>>>> then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files
>>
>> And neither of those will work if the OP did not backup the folders.dbx
>> file.
>
> I've never backed it, but imported the mail with every reinstall. If it's
> *missing* then yes, the OP is screwed.
>
> Dan
>
>
>

No he's not screwed - it just is a bit laborious to get the mail folders
back into OE!

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Gordon wrote:
> dadiOH wrote:
>> SS wrote:
>>> I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I
>>> cannot re-import them to OE as I did not back them up. MailNavigator
>>> will access them but I find the user interface difficult to use
>>> compared with the display format of OE. Is there any other software
>>> that will display the folders, files and newsgroup messages that I
>>> saved from the previous incarnation of OE before I had to reload the
>>> software?
>>
>> Just opening them (click on) should open them in OE.
>
> No it won't - they have to be imported into OE.

Oh.

So I should stop clicking on saved email/news messages archived in zip
files on CDs so that OE opens them? Gee, all these years I've been
doing that and I didn't know that I had to "import" them into
OE...figured the file extension association with OE would do the trick.
That assumes, of course, that the OP has his mail stuff in the form of
files - individual files - and not just a dbx.


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