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I need help getting to my Outlook Express email files.

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Ecrofirt

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My HD is failing, so I'm pulling data off of it loke a mofo.

I can't figure out where to go to find my OE emails, however. Can someone help? I've got a bunch of stuff I don't want to lose.
 
You can set Outlook express to save all your emails to a folder.
Tools>maintainace>store folder
That'll back up your emails, when you get a new hdd and reinstall windows, just load the store folder up and you'll have your emails back.

I think you can also click file>export>messages, that might work too but you'll have to select the emails you want to save.
 
Go to folder options and turn on view system files and hidden files. Then go:

Documents and Settings -> Your Name -> Local Settings -> Application Data -> Identities -> One of the Folders that pops up -> Microsoft -> Outlook Express

You emails are in the dbx files. You'll have to download some program that can extract dbx files.
 
Hsieh said:
Go to folder options and turn on view system files and hidden files. Then go:

Documents and Settings -> Your Name -> Local Settings -> Application Data -> Identities -> One of the Folders that pops up -> Microsoft -> Outlook Express

You emails are in the dbx files. You'll have to download some program that can extract dbx files.

I thank you. I swear I've done this before, but it was empty.

If I just save off these dbx files, can I just put them back when I reinstall Windows from the new HDD and have everything work?
 
Ecrofirt said:
I thank you. I swear I've done this before, but it was empty.

If I just save off these dbx files, can I just put them back when I reinstall Windows from the new HDD and have everything work?

It works, I did that with a recent re-install and just copied back the entire folder and everything worked exactly the same. :)
 
I thought outlook used pst files? is that full outlook not express?
 
You can also just select the emails in Outlook, and drag them to a folder. Once formatted, drag them back into your inbox...





Things don't always need to be that hard ;)
 
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