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18023	2001-09-02 09:14:00	'Meanwhile Christy has upgraded Windows and lost all my Outlook Express information up to last Friday. Is there any way I can retrieve it or is it lost forever? I had price lists and lots of letters I wanted(164 of them). Any ideas? It doesn't seem to have affected stuff on the desktop such as My Documents.' 1.That is the message from my daughter and I wouldn't have a clue. So any help would be most welcome 2. How would I backup email messages to a floppy ? In anticipation, many thanks reg harris	Guest (0)
18024	2001-09-02 18:29:00	Cannot help with recovering lost mail, maybe someone can but to back up for the future, create a folder somewhere though you could use floppies but you would need a few, open Outlook, File, Folders, Compact All Folders, that will save everything to Windows>Applications>Identities>{7487659....}>Micr osoft>Outlook. It will be saved as *.dbx. Now copy and paste to a folder or floppy(s). For those wondering why I use a folder to save to, we back up selected data to CDRW once a week.	Guest (0)
18025	2001-09-03 00:27:00	Can Outlook Express export all the info to a PST file like Outlook 2000 can? This is how I do it. Good luck.	Guest (0)
18026	2001-09-03 07:28:00	Hi, I have found that DBXtract is a very good small utility for saving emails www.webattack.com I have used it several times both on my Pc and others. Regards, Maurice.	Guest (0)
18027	2001-09-04 10:44:00	Reg, this should be no problem as long as Christy didnt delete the windows folder or format the PC. So how do you get those emails back ? First thing to do is find were any new emails you get go to. To do this fire up Outlook express, and head over to the Tools > Options > Maintenance tab. From this pop-up you are looking for a button called 'Store location'. Here you will be presensted with a rather long location, but you will need to note it done. This address should look along the line of 'C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{B74F22C0-55C6-11D5-8FF9-00500418DB9F}\Microsoft\Outlook Express' What we are going to do now is tell outlook express to use this old Store location. Good thing you have wrote down the new Good thing you have wrote down the old store location!. From outlook Express now select File > Import > Messages. Now depending on your version of outlook express depends on what option you choose here. Click on 'Microsoft outlook express x and next(x being you revious version of outlook Express).You will now be asked for the store location, So now browse to 'C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities'. Here you should be presented with 2 folders with really long names. Noting the one you have noted down, open the other folder (The one thats not the same)and continue onto \Microsoft\Outlook Express. The old messages will now be imported to your new store loaction ! Jess	Guest (0)
18028	2001-09-24 04:28:00	Gordon, I am extremely grateful for your suggestions, but I have another problem. I have copied the .dbx files to floppies. To see if I could get them back into OE to read, I renamed one folder and copied it to Outlook in the Windows (etc) directory. When I looked for it in OE, that folder was not listed in the Local Folders dir. So how do I transfer from floppy in order to read the messages ? reg harris	Guest (0)
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