No David, as far as I know there's no other way to 'read' a .dbx or a .wab file, other than with OE.  What I meant was that these files can be simply copied to another location, by drag and drop, or whatever means might be preferable.

Then, they can be resurrected in a new install of OE by any of several different methods.

Personally, I find eBackup the easiest way to do this, tho there are now a few other free progs available.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Grossman 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:16 AM
  Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Re-Installing Outlook Express


  >But you don't need to lose your emails and address book, Nancy.  As long as
  you can get into Windows, you can find >your way to the email folder and
  address book and copy them to somewhere else.

  >They could be in any one of several places but a search for *.dbx and *.wab
  should locate them.

  >Ian Porter
  >Computer Guys Inc.

  Hello, Ian,
  Do you mean that there is a way to read *.dbx and *.wab files that have not
  been Exported from OE? What is the procedure?

  David Grossman

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