IMporting email from OE5 (or 6?)

[Ed Elrod]

I used OE6 on my old Toshiba Satellite and saved 31mb of emails pertaining to
my Urban Search and Rescue Task Force from Jan 2002. When I got my new Dell
Inspiron, I installed Earthlink's "Total Access" and successfully imported
the entire file [INTF-1.dbx] into Earthlink's Total Access (which looks
suspiciously like Outlook Express!) I decided I didn't like TA, so I tried
to import the INTF-1.dbx file in my new OE6, with no luck. OE6 doesn't
recognize the .dbx file as E-mail, although all the files in OE6 are .dbx
files. I copied the INTF-1.dbx file into the folder where all the other OE6
files (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, a folder I created for new E-mails, Outbox,
etc.) are located [Documents & Settings\Ed Elrod\Local Settings\ Application
Data\Identities\{68C....}\Microsoft\Outlook Express]. OE6 doesn't recognize
the file is there with all of the others.

So I repeated the same attempts with Outlook, again to no avail. I even
tried putting the INTF-1.dbx file in a folder called "Main Identity" in an
effort to fool the computer into realizing the INTF-1.dbx file was an E-mail
file.

I CAN open the file with "Edit," but get only the first 46K lines, and of
course can not "manage the file" like I could if I could get it into OE or
Outlook, either one!

Suggestions?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97-2003 from the Office
family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...blic.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for OE 5.5x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ublic.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
for OE 6.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...;newsgroupsmicrosoft.public.internet.mail.mac
for the Macintosh version of OE
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ess.mac&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups). The links under the newsgroup
references are for use with MS's web newsreader (not exactly the best way to
post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head scratching, Ed Elrod <Ed (e-mail address removed)>
asked this group:

| I used OE6 on my old Toshiba Satellite and saved 31mb of emails
| pertaining to my Urban Search and Rescue Task Force from Jan 2002.
| When I got my new Dell Inspiron, I installed Earthlink's "Total
| Access" and successfully imported the entire file [INTF-1.dbx] into
| Earthlink's Total Access (which looks suspiciously like Outlook
| Express!) I decided I didn't like TA, so I tried to import the
| INTF-1.dbx file in my new OE6, with no luck. OE6 doesn't recognize
| the .dbx file as E-mail, although all the files in OE6 are .dbx
| files. I copied the INTF-1.dbx file into the folder where all the
| other OE6 files (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, a folder I created for new
| E-mails, Outbox, etc.) are located [Documents & Settings\Ed
| Elrod\Local Settings\ Application
| Data\Identities\{68C....}\Microsoft\Outlook Express]. OE6 doesn't
| recognize the file is there with all of the others.
|
| So I repeated the same attempts with Outlook, again to no avail. I
| even tried putting the INTF-1.dbx file in a folder called "Main
| Identity" in an effort to fool the computer into realizing the
| INTF-1.dbx file was an E-mail file.
|
| I CAN open the file with "Edit," but get only the first 46K lines,
| and of course can not "manage the file" like I could if I could get
| it into OE or Outlook, either one!
|
| Suggestions?

 

[Ed Elrod]

Thanks for the references, but if you will read my third paragraph, I DO have
Outlook, and I tried the same procedures on my Outlook (from Microsoft Office
XP). I figured the Outlook version would be more tolerant, but it wasn't.

So I was not incorrect in posting this question to this group. I did try
Outlook.

Ed Elrod

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97-2003 from the Office
family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...blic.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for OE 5.5x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ublic.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
for OE 6.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...;newsgroupsmicrosoft.public.internet.mail.mac
for the Macintosh version of OE
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ess.mac&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups). The links under the newsgroup
references are for use with MS's web newsreader (not exactly the best way to
post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head scratching, Ed Elrod <Ed (e-mail address removed)>
asked this group:

| I used OE6 on my old Toshiba Satellite and saved 31mb of emails
| pertaining to my Urban Search and Rescue Task Force from Jan 2002.
| When I got my new Dell Inspiron, I installed Earthlink's "Total
| Access" and successfully imported the entire file [INTF-1.dbx] into
| Earthlink's Total Access (which looks suspiciously like Outlook
| Express!) I decided I didn't like TA, so I tried to import the
| INTF-1.dbx file in my new OE6, with no luck. OE6 doesn't recognize
| the .dbx file as E-mail, although all the files in OE6 are .dbx
| files. I copied the INTF-1.dbx file into the folder where all the
| other OE6 files (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, a folder I created for new
| E-mails, Outbox, etc.) are located [Documents & Settings\Ed
| Elrod\Local Settings\ Application
| Data\Identities\{68C....}\Microsoft\Outlook Express]. OE6 doesn't
| recognize the file is there with all of the others.
|
| So I repeated the same attempts with Outlook, again to no avail. I
| even tried putting the INTF-1.dbx file in a folder called "Main
| Identity" in an effort to fool the computer into realizing the
| INTF-1.dbx file was an E-mail file.
|
| I CAN open the file with "Edit," but get only the first 46K lines,
| and of course can not "manage the file" like I could if I could get
| it into OE or Outlook, either one!
|
| Suggestions?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for the references, but if you will read my third paragraph, I
DO have Outlook, and I tried the same procedures on my Outlook (from
Microsoft Office XP). I figured the Outlook version would be more
tolerant, but it wasn't.

Outlook can't deal with any type of DBX file, even those that plain Outlook
Express uses.

Since you imported the mail from Outlook Express into Total Access, Outlook
Express should still have it. Use Outlook Express to export it to Outlook.
I suspect that, even though Total Access uses a DBX file, it modifies the
format to make it incompatible with OE.

 

[Ed Elrod]

I copied the file from OE, not from Total Access, so the copy was an
unchanged .dbx file, the same as the original .dbx file in OE. I didn't
import the OE to Total Access and then try to import the TA file into the new
OE. I tried to import the original OE file into the new OE. No go.

Thanks, anyway.

 

[Gordon]

I copied the file from OE, not from Total Access, so the copy was an
unchanged .dbx file, the same as the original .dbx file in OE. I
didn't import the OE to Total Access and then try to import the TA
file into the new OE. I tried to import the original OE file into the
new OE. No go.

Thanks, anyway.

The steps to import mail from outlook Express to Outlook (on a different
machine?) are as follows:

Read this http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm on how to make a
backup copy of your OE mail files, and restore them to the new machine.
Then on the new machine, in OE, go to File-Export and that function will
automatically export OE mail into your Outlook setup.

HTH

 

[Ed Elrod]

Tnx. I'll try that method.

Ed

The steps to import mail from outlook Express to Outlook (on a different
machine?) are as follows:

Read this http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm on how to make a
backup copy of your OE mail files, and restore them to the new machine.
Then on the new machine, in OE, go to File-Export and that function will
automatically export OE mail into your Outlook setup.

HTH