SillyDog701

[dt510]

Outlook Express recently crashed on my old computer. Fortunately, I subscribe to Carbonite (the online back up service). Through Carbonite, I restroed my entire OE Inbox, Outbox, and Sent Items to a brand new computer in the "My Documents" section. However, the Inbox, Outbox, and Sent Items have been restored in an "DBX" file format which I can't figure out how to open. I am currently using Vista "Windows Mail" for e-mail (if that matters somehow). Can anyone help?

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[Don_HH2K]

I did a Google search for "Windows Mail DBX" and turned up a very similar thread on another forum, that people seem to be having success with. For convenience, here are the steps as outlined in the original article:

1. Create a directory under the current user's Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible access permissions problems.
2. Copy all the dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. Go to Edit | Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File | Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import.

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