reading backed up(.dbx) files

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clive

Hi, this is a two sided question for anybody who can help.
Firstly, we are running a small XP workgroup with several
users and all email is backed up to a folder within each
user's profile. If we then wish to back up each user's
email to cd from a workstation must we:
a. Log on as each user in turn, save the logged on user's
backup folder to a central location, then burn the cd,
presuming that access to data in another user's profile
is not possible, or
b. log on to a workstation as the administrator presuming
this account CAN access all the above.

Secondly, once the email is backed up into a series
of .dbx files, how do we get to read it again. Does it
have to be un-compacted first?

Thanks.
 
clive said:
Secondly, once the email is backed up into a series
of .dbx files, how do we get to read it again. Does it
have to be un-compacted first?

Thanks.
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Compaction is nothing to do with backing up, it just removes the free space
from the files.
You have to import the files into an instance of OE (AFAIK) to read them,
unless you use a program like DBExtract.

BTW, this newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003(beta) from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!
 
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