Transferring mail messages from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000

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Hello-

I am trying to Import my mail messages & address book
which were exported via Outlook Express. When I try to
Import the mail messages it doesn't prompt for a
path...where is it looking for the *.dbx files??

I need my mail...and I am lost without it....any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Try exporting from OE rather than importing into Outlook.

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(e-mail address removed) <[email protected]> asked:

| Hello-
|
| I am trying to Import my mail messages & address book
| which were exported via Outlook Express. When I try to
| Import the mail messages it doesn't prompt for a
| path...where is it looking for the *.dbx files??
|
| I need my mail...and I am lost without it....any help
| would be appreciated.
|
| Thanks.
 
You can't import directly from .DBX files. You'll need to get those files
back into Outlook Express on the machine you're using now, and then export
the data to Outlook. If you need help getting the data back into OE, look
here: http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com.

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Why did Outlook Express v 6.0 create dbx files when I
exported my mail messages?? What are dbx files??

Thanks again!
 
I am trying to Import my mail messages & address book
which were exported via Outlook Express.
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If you have Outlook installed correctly, when you Export from Outlook
Express, it will know how to find your Outlook and will deposit its messages
directly into your Outlook Personal Folders or to your Exchange server, if
you're connected that way. That's the only destination for Outlook Express.
It won't export mesages in any other fashion.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
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Why did Outlook Express v 6.0 create dbx files when I
exported my mail messages??
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It didn't create them when you exported. They were always there. That's
how OE stores messages.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
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