At Ask Me Help Desk you can ask questions in any topic and have them
answered for free by our experts. To ask questions or participate in
answering them you must register for a free account. By registering you
will be able to:
Get free answers from experts in any of our 300+
topics.
Hi JAF I followed your directions regarding this matter and it doesn't show any files in the folder I created. So now how do I do it or is there a box that is not checked somewhere.
Regards
Bruce
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.
This procedure worked for me. If you have difficulties, go to
I had the same issue. I found the answer and got mine imported. Follow the following steps:
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.
This procedure worked for me. If you have difficulties, go to backup for clarification. That is where I found this procedure that worked for me.
My problem is that the folder under Identities where the .dbx files should be is said to be empty. I believe I'm going to the right destination, but there are no files there. Any suggestions?
My problem is that the folder under Identities where the .dbx files should be is said to be empty. I believe I'm going to the right destination, but there are no files there. Any suggestions?
Hi, I have the same problem... I created the folder under my user and I've copied all dbx files in there. But when I try to import them using windows mail the folder is empty... Can someone please help us?? Thks
SOLUTION: for those that cannot see the dbx files in the folder ...that's because you are not supposed to select the dbx files themeselves but the folder which contains them
so simply choose to import the folder which includes the dbx files.
Personally, I created my own folder on a secondary drive for security and performance reasons. I didn't know about all this when I made the move to Vista.
JAF's answer worked perfectly for me.
All I had to do was select the folder where I actually STORED my mail files, and there were no issues.
I knew there HAD to be a way to import from OE to Windows mail.
Personally, I created my own folder on a secondary drive for security and performance reasons. I didn't know about all this when I made the move to Vista.
JAF's answer worked perfectly for me.
All I had to do was select the folder where I actually STORED my mail files, and there were no issues.
I knew there HAD to be a way to import from OE to Windows mail.
Thanks to JAF and Alpurl for their comments!
Ditto - JAF's solution worked for me with one twist: the import wizard kept stalling when it tried to import the "deleted items.dbx" file. I ended up with an empty "Imported Folder" in my new Windows Mail program.
My work around solution: Instead of clicking the "All folders" option in the "Select Folders" prompt, I clicked on the "Selected folders" option, and individually selected all the folders that I wanted to import, making sure that I did NOT select the "deleted items.dbx". Worked like a charm.
Note: Everything was imported into a new folder which the wizard named "Imported Folder". In there, I found all my imported OE messages and OE folders perfectly organized as they were in the OE program on my old computer.
I used a flash drive/memory stick for my OE messages, and did NOT have to move them to my "Documents" folder.
This did help me. When I navigated to find the .dbx files I put in (C:\Users\XXX\Documents\OEMail), Windows Mail could not see them to import, even though there were several and included folders.dbx BUT READ THE ADVICE ABOVE CAREFULLY. SELECT THE FOLDER AND DO NOT EXPECT TO SEE THE FILES!
Can someone please help us?? Thks
Linear Mode
