Go to Windows Explorer and drag the folders into Windows/application data/Microsoft/Outlook Express and they should then show up in OE in the folder list. I've moved out all the folders before and then reinstalled OE when it was giving me problems. I then just put the folders back and all of the folders reappear after being moved back. You might want to do them one at a time and maybe that way you can identify which one has the corrupt message in it. When you do just drag that folder back out or delete it. Hope this helps. God's Blessings Linda Aldridge ----- Original Message ----- 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 Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html