David,

When XP was reinstalled, did you change the Store folder location (Tools /
Options / Maintenance tab / Store Folder button) in Outlook Express to the
folder where the saved OE files are?

Here is information on two freeware programs that may be useful to you and
others:

DBXtract: OE5 and OE6 have a proprietary binary format that makes archiving
individual messages difficult. In addition, a number of people have
indicated that their message folders have become corrupted and OE can not
read them. Consequently, they have lost all the messages in that folder.

DBXtract.exe extracts all mail and news messages from individual dbx files.
After extracting the messages one can drag them from a Windows Explorer
folder into an Outlook Express mail folder.
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DbxConv: This program will extract the messages from an Outlook Express
(5.0 - 6.0) mailbox and convert it either to the standard mbox or the
Outlook Express eml format.
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

Sven Swanson, Sr.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Grossman
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Outlook Express messages

The proper way to move Outlook Express messages from one computer setup to
another is by exporting them. However, I have a computer in which the OE
files themselves were saved, but Windows XP was partially deleted. When
Windows was re-installed (in another directory) it would no longer recognize
the OE files.

Is there a utility somewhere that allows the files to be read or which turns
them into plain *.TXT files?

David Grossman

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