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| Thread ID: 43466 | 2004-03-15 22:40:00 | Can't get my mail- MSOE.DLL cannot be loaded | Laura (43) | Press F1 |
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| 222760 | 2004-03-16 03:54:00 | If you want to backup your Address Book and email folders manually, do a search on your hard drive for *.wab and *.dbx files and copy them to another location either on your hard drive or to a CD. If you need to restore your files copy them back to the same location or choose Outlook Express's Import function and point it to where the backup is located. Note that anything new added to the address book or email folders prior to restoring will be overwritten (not normally a problem but it can happen when one "tests" OE and gets an Inbox full of emails...). The above is the method I use but if Phoenix's program works just use that. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 222761 | 2004-03-16 05:10:00 | Thanks for your suggestions, Susan. I'm saving them for a little to see whether I yet can win the battle with Pheonix's backup. (Frustratingly, I'm so near & yet so far. Got it to the final stage of installation & just can't work out what "select a backup file means" - in terms of what's accessible at that stage. I know something's there, as my user's contact name is at the top of the box...Grrr.) My inexperience is showing regarding your advice as well. Loads of new stuff to work out over the past 2 days. Even "searching the hard drive for files " is an unknown task. And my CD player only plays, doesn't copy. As is probably obvious by now, I've never copied anything yet.. The brain is getting overloaded after 2 days - and I'm still on backup, let alone getting OE functioning. But I'll certainly dive into that hard drive once the swelling goes down. And for Jim B - Your first link (for ME) contained a method I'd already tried unsuccessfully. 98SE doesn't have the YES button for the final step, so no luck. The 2nd method is too scary for me (yet). I don't think it's my day for making what looks like a lot of changes to the registry - but I'll take it as a compliment that you thought I was up to it.... |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222762 | 2004-03-16 05:29:00 | Hi Laura I can't install this program to see what point you are stuck on (won't run on Linux :p), but I have found you the home site and graphical user guides that you can view which may help - OEBackup (www.oehelp.com). Well I hope it is the same program, as it has the same file name oebackupfull2.9.zip. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 222763 | 2004-03-16 06:07:00 | Thanks Jen I have to feed people, but will check it out shortly (Why do people have to eat when there are more important things happening?) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222764 | 2004-03-16 07:41:00 | run an install of IE6 again from a cd if you can find it ...it's often on magazine cd's and when it's installing do the 'custom' install and TICK OE in the list.......that'll re-install it............ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 222765 | 2004-03-16 08:03:00 | Ok, back online. A little problem with Telecom and authentication server of theirs. Open up the OE backup program, go Tools>Backup folder>make a new backup folder and follow the instructions. When you close the window, you will see the folder written in Red. You can then hit the backup button. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 222766 | 2004-03-16 08:49:00 | Hi Team I have good news & bad news. The good news is that I finally cracked the folder thingy, so yes I do know what you mean Pheonix. The reason it made no sense before was - would you believe - a cantankerous dialog box which was actually jammed. So that's why none of my clicks to find out WHERE to find the folder were getting anywhere. After reading the info from Jen's link, I knew much more about what should be happening, so got past that OK. Still managed to stuff up again, though, by choosing My Documents for the folder. Apparently there was something else in there with a name too similar & the next dialog box got all upset. I tried to change things & the end result is data spread about in at least 3 places. Two say MERGE as a choice but I think they're probably corrupted anyway. So it's been a rocky road, yet also a learning curve which is far from finished. I'm going to uninstall the bits & start again - knowing what I know now. But I fear that'll have to be tomorrow.(You don't want to know just how much sleep I DIDN'T get last night Googling on this. Frankly I'm ***) I'll report back on progress when there is some. BTW Jen - thanks for the tip about catching up by webmail... another thing I hadn't thought of - and there was some important stuff, too. |
Laura (43) | ||
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