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 > > PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download > visit our download web page at: > <http://nospin.com/pc/files.html>http://nospin.com/pc/files.html > Find out about many moderated e-mail discussion groups on Jewish and Hebrew topics by sending a blank message to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html