Shirley,

If you have Internet access, try downloading this program:
http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm

It is a .DBX file viewer. I have not tried it, but it should help you to read the entire contents of
any file with a .dbx extension. You'll need to put your FOLDERS.OLD somewhere other then OE, and
rename it back to FOLDERS.DBX to use the program. Hope this helps.

Alan Thompson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Shirley Bonner <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:08 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Outlook Express Proablem


A couple of days ago I could not open Outlook Express (ver. 5.5).  It would start to load and then
freeze.  When I used "Alt, Control, Delete", it said the file MSIMN was not responding.  After
uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook Express, I still could not open the program.  I used the HELP
file for Windows ME and renamed the file FOLDERS.DBX  to FOLDERS.OLD as the help file suggested.  I
am now able to open Outlook Express but my messages did not show.  When I looked in the WINDOWS
folder at the APPLICATION DATA I see the INBOX folder with my old messages. but I can not find a way
to open it.  Is there a way to retrieve these messages?  Thanks for any suggestions.

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