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75059 2002-08-30 07:44:00 I have received an email in german and tried to save the text on my desktop, so That I could open it and translate it with babel fish. But once I succeeded in saving it in a folder and successively on my desktop, I found out I could neither open it as a text message with babel fish, nor with notepad for it was a .DBX? What am I doing wrong? How can I change a .DBX file into a .TXT file? Can you please help?
Dankeschen.......
Sanco (683)
75060 2002-08-30 08:16:00 A .dbx folder is a database associated with Outlook Express. It seems that instead of saving the message you have saved the whole folder. The message should still be accessible through your e-mail program. Open the message and then use the "Save As" option in the File menu. Alter the the file extension to .txt and then save where-ever you need it. Gorela (901)
75061 2002-08-30 09:33:00 I don't think changing the .dbx file into a .txt file is going to be any help. You will probably have to use dbxtractor to open the email.

Have a look at this (pages.prodigy.net) page and try following their advice.
Susan B (19)
75062 2002-08-30 10:03:00 This might sound silly but have you tried to use copy and paste to save the text of the email to either wordpad or notebook?? dipstick01 (445)
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