How to get mails stored in previous installation on original hard disk?

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Bhushit Joshipura

My Windows Me died.

I installed new harddisk as primary and made the original hard disk
secondary drive. I reinstalled Windows Me through rescue disk.
Everything works fine other than ...

Because my outlook express and IE6 installations were lost,I lost all
stored mail and bookmarks.

I can access my D:/Windows/Application Data/Identity/<>/Outlook
Express/*.dbx - with all the folder names of past.

How can I make my new outlook "adopt" those folders? I tried copying
them over C: drive at appropriate place but did not work :-(

Where is similar data for IE stored? How can I do similar thing for my
bookmarks?

I think my mistake was not to have these data exported at first place.

Thanks in advance,
-Bhushit
 
This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97, 98, 2000 & 2002 from the Office
family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...blic.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for OE 5.5x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ublic.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
for OE 6.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...;newsgroupsmicrosoft.public.internet.mail.mac
for the Macintosh version of OE
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ess.mac&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups). The links under the newsgroup
references are for use with MS's web newsreader (not exactly the best way to
post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Bhushit Joshipura <[email protected]> asked:

| My Windows Me died.
|
| I installed new harddisk as primary and made the original hard disk
| secondary drive. I reinstalled Windows Me through rescue disk.
| Everything works fine other than ...
|
| Because my outlook express and IE6 installations were lost,I lost all
| stored mail and bookmarks.
|
| I can access my D:/Windows/Application Data/Identity/<>/Outlook
| Express/*.dbx - with all the folder names of past.
|
| How can I make my new outlook "adopt" those folders? I tried copying
| them over C: drive at appropriate place but did not work :-(
|
| Where is similar data for IE stored? How can I do similar thing for my
| bookmarks?
|
| I think my mistake was not to have these data exported at first place.
|
| Thanks in advance,
| -Bhushit
 
Well, first of all, do NOT simply change your outlook
settings such that you change the folder in which your
messages are stored to point to the old folder.

This overwrites your old messages.

I did this.

To crate a situation where it's possible for a user to
overwrite files without knowing it is the most ridiculous
thing I have ever heard of.
 
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