My thanks to everyone who has responded to my request for help opening the
DBX files. David, my problem was I did not get the option that allows you
to try to open them. When I would right click on the file, the "Open With"
option was missing!! I had never seen that happen, and still do not know
why that option was missing from the dialog box. I probably will have to
go with downloading the program that was suggested.
Thanks to all. You people are great!
Barbara Allen
----- Original Message -----
From: David Grossman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Need Help Opening Files
Dear Barbara,
Try opening the mailboxes first with Notepad. If your file is too large,
Windows will automatically suggest Wordpad, but that should not be your
first
choice. There will be a box which asks whether to always open files of this
type with Notepad. Leave that box unchecked. Your messages will appear as
one
big file, with a lot of header information preceding each message.
David Grossman
At 07:58 PM 11/29/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>I will try to be as brief as possible regarding a dilemma I have in trying
to
open some dbx files. I was having problems with error messages and blue
screens in my Outlook Express 5 program. A tech support person diagnosed
it as
a corrupt mail message or mailbox and worked with me to copy all mailboxes
to a
file on my harddrive - C:\Mail and then delete all the mailboxes out of OE5
as
we did not know which one was corrupting it. It worked and the program is
working fine.
>
>It did not occur to me that I would not be able to open the dbx mailboxes
that
are all nicely showing up on my C: drive. If I right click on a file I do
not
get an option to open. I cannot import them back into OE5 because the C
drive
is not there to select. Another tech support person told me I cannot open
them
at all outside OE5?? Someone else said they open them with WordPad, but I
can't find anyway to do that.
>
>If you click on My Computer, then View, Options, then File Types and select
DBX, where it asks what the program opens with is BLANK. Is that where
mine is
missing something?
>
>I have tried doing searches in Microsoft's OE 150,000 message knowledge
base,
but have found nothing that helps. Can anyone help?
>
>TIA,
>
>Barbara Allen
>
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>
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>
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