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• Computer crashed and has been restored. I can't find my address book Outlook Express or Outlook Express folders. Please help me.

  Computer crashed and a computer store restored our operating system. However, I can't find my address book Outlook Express or Outlook Express folders. Please help me.

  Kewl! Did you find a folder named Outlook Express which had a number of inside DBX files? And there a file called Folders.dbx? If so, that's fine.
   
  Write on the way and in the new identity of OE: file | Import | Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and then point to the folder that you have found.
   
    

• By using only the keyboard, how can I create an email using Outlook Express, have the files of "painting" in the body of the email

  original title: only the keyboard

  By using only the keyboard, how can I create an email using Outlook Express, have the files of 'paint' in the body of the email, also registered another Web page?

  Hi r. Gull,.

  You can view using Outlook Express keyboard shortcuts, documented in:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/mail_hotkeys.mspx?mfr=true

  I hope this helps.

• Problem importing email files from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail. Not all the imported outlook express folders are visible

  I followed your instructions and now have "storage folders" visible. However that a single user account recorded message records showing if you keep double clicking and scrolling down. There are 3 other user accounts whose records are not visible. I tried as well by importing and using Windows Easy Transfer for all alphanumeric codes in Outlook Express. I signed into Live Mail using the other our of the user, but this does not solve the problem... Please tell us how to transfer files from my old computer Windows XP to the new W7 mail.

  Transfer of data from Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail:
   
  
  For Messages:
   
  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  V-2009: open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.
   
  V-2011: Menu button. Import Messages. Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.
   
  
  Location of OE message store:
   
  In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.
   
  
  For addresses:
   
  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  For WLMail 2009: Open list of Contacts in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.
   
  For WLMail 2011: Switch to the contacts window (click on the book icon to the address at the foot of the folders pane, or press Ctrl-3). Click on the import button, select address book (wab) Windows and point on where it was saved.
   
  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.
   
  
  For the account settings:
   
  In OE: Tools | Accounts, select the account and export it to the desktop. This will be an .iaf file. Copy it to the new computer and WLMail desktop: tools | Accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.
   
  
  If you need more assistance, help for Windows Live Mail is located in this forum
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/LIVEmail?tab=all 
   
   

• Lost Outlook Express folders and emails

  When Outlook Express 6 is closed yesterday a messaged poped asking if I would like to compress (?) Outlook.I you click Yes, and then shut down my computer, once he had finished.

  When you open outlook today however I lost all of my subfolders of the Inbox and all emails in them as well.

  How can I do to get these back because there are some important information in them.

  Thank you.

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  [Link removed]

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• Maybe easily recovery Outlook Express folders and messages in WinXp Home v6?

  I've performed on a system Windows XP Home sp3 v6.00.2900.5512 Outlook Express as the e-mail client.

  Make a few mistakes that took place I lost a number of records and messages [probably of thousands] (and how I got the installation folder tree) in Outlook Express. Luckily (I Think) the program a few days ago asked that I want to compress the files Outlook and after doing so I have .bak files in the Recycle Bin.  I wonder if I can simply copy the .bak files in the own (whatever they are) subdirectory and everything back to normal?  I hope that no key of registry or something else needs to be done.

  I would like to experiment, however, since I am running XP home, I can't have other options if I have something to spoil as food does not easily seem to work for me, XP Home lacks the ability to use ASR to restore the registry hives and I don't have any backup software file in order to get it right the first time means a lot to me :)

  Also, I did a search of the hard drive and it shows that, in the subdirectory doc um ~ 1/name of user/Application data / identities / {x-x-x - x-} files such as Sent items.dbx (553 MB), sent items (1) .dbx (33 MB) & Envoy points (2) .dbx (75 Kb), the most important [sent items.dbx] is a few minutes more than the #3 file but it is much bigger and what if all I have to do is to take the files such as this one and put it in (which directory)? and he will restore that particular file this morning before the problem was which would be awesome!

  Also, if not all the records of previous mail are located in either the bin or able to find in files of type xxxxx (1) .dbx as the subdirectory above is there anywhere else I can go to retrieve the messages/folders, which disappeared this morning. I have a program to undelete on the system but there of own set of problems and is not reliable or even running, at the present time.

  I hope I have this in the right area as I see that 8 forums listed to choose from.

  Thank you for reading this and any help or suggestions you may have,

  Mumford68

  You have a corrupted message store.  That's why you have the type etc. (2) in the file names.  The best thing you can do is to backup all files dbx and bak you have and then save.  Then you can try the recovery.

  Start of OE and set up a new identity.  This will give you a new bank messages and the new registry hive.  Then add your e-mail accounts and make sure they work.  Then, if you have any dbx with folders.dbx files directory, you can try to go to file | Import | Messages and then choose to import from a directory and not to another identity and then see what is important.  After this date, you can try to manually import files using the method described here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1 and you can try the dbx files and bak (just rename the bak to dbx), but do not try and import existing files such as Inbox.dbx box--instead create new folders and rename those you are trying to import.

  If you have not yet recovered messages, my DBXpress program (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) will extract messages from the dbx corrupted files (as long as the files are not filled with zeros) and there is also an exclusive excerpt from disc feature that will bypass the file system and analyze the entire disk directly to messages , and if they are still there, he's going to recover them.

  In the future beware of the antivirus software which aggravates the tendency to the destruction of messages in OE (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3) and back up frequently (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6).

  Steve

• How can I get my Outlook Express folders to new Windows Live Mail

  my old XP computer has blown the motherboard.  Hard drive is OK.  Bought the new computer using Windows LIve Mail.   I transferred 'My Documents' folder to the new computer.  How can I get my files from the old computer to the new Windows Live Mail Outlook Express when the old computer does not work?

  Assuming you have the message OE together on the new computer store, (the OE message store is hidden in XP in Documents and Settings, not my Documents), then go to the next topic. If you still have questions, continue your problem here.

  Windows Live Mail Forum
  http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?ProductID=15

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  Transfer of data from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail

  For Messages:

  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail. Open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.

  Location of OE message store:

  In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  For addresses:

  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.

  Open the Contacts list in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.

  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.

  For the account settings:

  In OE: Tools | Accounts, select the account and export it to the desktop. This will be an .iaf file. Copy it to the new computer and WLMail desktop: tools | Accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.

• How to copy outlook express email and files from one account to another

  Outlook Express

  My husband & I share a computer. It has 1 side and I the other.  Until recent Outlook Express has been available on its side of the computer.  It is the primary identity and I hace an account out of it.  Recent updates have allowed to have Outlook Express on my side of the computer also.  How to copy all my files on his side of the computer & bring to my side?  I am old and computer illiterate...  Also, I don't understand the questions they ask me when I try to open Outlook express on my side of the computer... What is a pop3 server?  How can I know if this is what I have?

  My husband & I share a computer. It has 1 side and I the other.

  1. What is a 'Party '? Different user profiles?
  2. You have your own e-mail address?

  You must copy the entire message of his profile store and put it on the desktop of your profile and then in OE, import from an OE store directory. You can import only the records you want.

  Backup restore &:
  http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

  How to import Outlook Express 5 and OE6 mail folders?
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/how.htm#importOE5

  Setting up email in Outlook Express servers:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/mailserver.mspx

• The old Outlook Express under Vista file recovery

  I have a file called "Outlook Express" that was recovered from my XP machine failure.  I bought a new computer with Vista.  Vista mail will not import these files of messages in this folder in OE.  How to import these old messages in Windows Mail; or d ' elsewhere-how to access and read those old emails with any method?
  Thank you. ***

  In Outlook Express folder should be several files with names like Sent.dbx, Inbox.dbx and Folders.dbx.  The last one is particularly important.  If these files exist, you can import Outlook Express messages in Windows Mail:

  1. Press ALT + F .
  2. Click on import > Messages > Microsoft Outlook Express > Next .
  3. Click on Import mail from an OE6 store directory > OK .
  4. Navigate to the Outlook Express folder, click Next , and follow the prompts.

  Boulder computer Maven
  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• How do I re - center outlook Express Screen (my file option is sliding to the left)

  The screen of my Outlook Express 6 slipped to the left so that I can barely access (click on) "file.
  How a re - set the screen so that it is centered.

  Just enter the blue banner at the top and slide it into place. Close other windows first, including minimized in the taskbar and this last one and Windows will remember its position.

  If you can't catch the blue banner, right-click on the tab of the window in the task bar and select move. Now, use the arrow keys to get to the screen.

• my outlook express folders to go and how can I get back them?

  Did a reinstall of XP home and then put upgraded to Office 2007 (and very sorry I did).  Somewhere in the process of my outlook express window is devoid of everything except the last incoming messages.  I've been in the menus and found no option to show or does not show files (i.e. sent, drafts, trash, etc.). I have noticed similar issues, but they seem to relate to lose existing e-mail stores, either incoming or outgoing.  I'm looking for the structure of the folder itself.

  BINGO!  That's all, Bruce.  I have never been in the subdirectory of layout and would not have thought to look there.  Now, another question.  I installed the backup utility and used a number of times before reinstall, save on a portable hard drive.  However, when I go in the restore section, the file structure seems foreign to me and not completed.  Do you know where I can find the old dbx files stored?  Maybe I can find the old emails as well as the structure of file...?

• Lost in Outlook Express - trying to retrieve missing files

  Hello-

  I hope someone can help me. Our desktop computer crashed, so rather that investing in a new system, we decided to use our working laptop and bought a box for the drive of the old computer motherboard, because that had not been affected. It now shows up as drive F when we plugged him (as an external drive). I'm recovering Outlook Express FOLDERS that I created on my desktop. I have spent countless hours trying to do this and can't seem to get it. We have used Outlook Express on your old computer, with COX as our email service provider and try even with that. I managed to install our identities without any problem, I can't do the next step that retrieves my old emails, including those appearing in some files I had created and had created some including Outlook Express.

  Basically, I need to find the files in the folders on drive F (old hard drive) and copy them into my Outlook Express courses. I'm puzzled. I really need to find someone's address and it's the only place where I got it.

  Any suggestion or help would be GREATLY appreciated.

  Thank you

  Audrey

  You are in the Vista Networking newsgroup. On the current computer are you using Vista? If you are, you do not use Outlook Express. Please provide details.

  How did you create records OE on the desktop? They contain messages, (eml files), or store the message dbx files? If dbx files, don't you include folders, dbx?

  If necessary, can you still see the OE message store on the HARD drive old? It is the way, but do not have something else to see if you can find it.

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  The path to the message will be very similar to this:

  C:\Documents and Settings\Your User of utilisateur\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ {long string of letters & numbers} \Microsoft\Outlook Express

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• Impossible to compact files Outlook Express - "use current record"

  original title: cannot Compact Outlook Express folders

  In Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP SP2 with IE8, when you allow the OE compact records on demand, records almost total of compaction, but returns with an error message "file in use by another program" during compaction, thus forcing me to abandon the process. Accordingly, the application of compaction returns soon after another a few uses of the ENP.  Any help to get rid of this repeated error greatly appreciated.

  In the main screen of OE: file | New | Folder and the other will be done in the tree of folders under the drafts folder. Move messages here.
   
  But do you really need all the messages sent to all? I only keep a few days in case I need to confirm something and then they are deleted. I don't need nostalgia :)

• Try to transfer mail from outlook express to windows live but my display windows live doesn't have a tab "file" on the banner. Where is he?

  Try to transfer mail from outlook express to windows live but my display windows live doesn't have a tab "file" on the banner.  Where is he?  I even downloaded the latest version of Windows Live Essentials and didn't get any results in obtaining the 'file' tab is displayed when you click in the upper left corner or in the Live window.  It appars I may be trying to work with a version under Windows Live but can't seem to get the "good".

  There is no bar in WLMail 2011 and 2012. What version do you use? The last version to work under XP (this forum) is WLMail 2009 and having a Menu bar with file on it.
   
  If you transfer to a more recent machine...
   
   
   
  In Outlook Express, compact you files first.
   
  
  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.
   
  
  Compress your OE folders:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact 
   
   
   
  Transfer of data from Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail:
   
  
  For Messages:
   
  
  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  V-2009: open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.
   
  
  V-2011/2012: Menu button. Import Messages. Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.
   
  
  Location of OE message store:
   
  
  In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  
  In Windows XP the OE User (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.
   
  
  Note: If any DBX file is over 300 MB, return to OE and move some messages from the folder related to a new user created folder and compact down the size of the file.
   
  
  For addresses:
   
  
  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  For WLMail 2009: Open list of Contacts in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.
   
  WLMail 2011/2012: switch to the contacts window (click on the book icon to the address at the foot of the folders pane, or press Ctrl-3). Click on the import button, select address book (wab) Windows and point on where it was saved.
   
  
  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.
   
  
  For the account settings:
   
  
  In OE: Tools | Accounts, select the account and export it to the desktop. This will be an .iaf file. Copy it to the new desktop computer.
   
  For WLMail 2009: Tools | Accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.
   
  For WLMail 2011: The Menu button. Options | E-mail accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.
   
  
  Account settings do not matter in WLMail 2012. You will have to do it manually.
   
  
  Windows Live Mail help is in this forum
  
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/LIVEmail?tab=all 
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
   

• Cannot open Outlook Express dbx files saved

  Original title: files__ dbx

  I backed up all of my Outlook Express folders and now I can not open them. They have all of the .dbx endings. How can I restore them?

  If you have saved all of the directory, copy it to the desktop computer and right-click on the file and check properties to ensure that they are not read-only.  Then go to file | Import | Messages in OE and choose to import from a directory, and point to this directory.  To import a single dbx file, see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
   
  Steve
   
  wrote in message News: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy *...

  I backed up all of my Outlook Express folders and now I can not open them. They have all of the .dbx endings. How can I restore them?