Upgraded to XP and now need an old email

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I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I now need to find an old email I had before the upgrade. (previously had Outlook Express and still do) I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to upgrade. I thought that backing up all files would take care of that. I was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old emails.Am I screwed??
 
Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing
After You Upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313055

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I now need to find an old email I had before the upgrade. (previously
had Outlook Express and still do) I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup
prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to upgrade. I thought that backing up all
files would take care of that. I was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find
one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old emails.Am I screwed??
 
Ok, I followed those instructions...thanks! But it seemed to only give me a copy of what was already in my email. So now I have two of everything. Any other ideas?

----- Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: -----

Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing
After You Upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313055

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


| I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I now need to find an old email I had before the upgrade. (previously
had Outlook Express and still do) I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup
prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to upgrade. I thought that backing up all
files would take care of that. I was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find
one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old emails.Am I screwed??
 
I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I now need to find an old email I had before the upgrade. (previously had Outlook Express and still do) I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to upgrade. I thought that backing up all files would take care of that. I was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old emails.Am I screwed??
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Try looking for .dbx files, .pst files are Outlook files not Outlook
Express.

Howard
 
That's what the instructions said to import *.dbx files and it only gave me a copy of what I already had. It didn't find my old emails. I tried "*.pst" also and that resulted in the search finding nothing. Any other ideas on where my old emails are? Please help!

----- Howard wrote: -----

I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I now need to find an old email I had before the upgrade. (previously had Outlook Express and still do) I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to upgrade. I thought that backing up all files would take care of that. I was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old emails.Am I screwed??
Click to expand...

Try looking for .dbx files, .pst files are Outlook files not Outlook
Express.

Howard
 
OLEXP: Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing After You
Upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313055&Product=winxp


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Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
DJ said:
That's what the instructions said to import *.dbx files and it only gave
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me a copy of what I already had. It didn't find my old emails. I tried
"*.pst" also and that resulted in the search finding nothing. Any other
ideas on where my old emails are? Please help!
----- Howard wrote: -----
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I had before the upgrade. (previously had Outlook Express and still do)
I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backup
prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior to
upgrade. I thought that backing up all files would take care of that. I
was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't find
one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my old
emails.Am I screwed??
 
Thanks for your help Steve, but can you be more specific? I am a very novice computer user. Do you want me to RENAME my current Mail folder to "36db"? And then do what

----- Steve C. Ray wrote: ----

OLEXP: Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing After Yo
Upgrade to Microsoft Windows X
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313055&Product=winx


--
Steve C. Ra
Replace "mail" with "36db
DJ said:
That's what the instructions said to import *.dbx files and it only gav
Click to expand...
me a copy of what I already had. It didn't find my old emails. I trie
"*.pst" also and that resulted in the search finding nothing. Any othe
ideas on where my old emails are? Please helpI had before the upgrade. (previously had Outlook Express and still do
I've looked all over my c drive as well as all CD's I used to for backu
prior to upgrade. I did not specifically "export" my email prior t
upgrade. I thought that backing up all files would take care of that.
was told by a friend to look for a .pst file on my c drive. Couldn't fin
one. Was told that restoring back to ME would not get me back my ol
emails.Am I screwed?
 
Click on the link I sent. It's in blue type. You will find instructions
there.

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
DJ said:
Thanks for your help Steve, but can you be more specific? I am a
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very novice computer user. Do you want me to RENAME my current Mail folder
to "36db"? And then do what?
 
Thanks for responding...but I did that already (Carey Frisch reply). Following those instructions is what gave me duplicates of the emails I already have. It did not find my OLD emails it just found and duplicated my current emails

Do you want me to rename my current mail folder and then follow those instructions again? Anytime I search for *.dbx files it only finds my current emails. I still don't know how to find my old emails

Thanks for all your help

----- Steve C. Ray wrote: ----

Click on the link I sent. It's in blue type. You will find instruction
there
 
Don't rename the folder. If you did a clean install of XP, not a upgrade,
then your old email is gone; you can't get them back. If you did an upgrade,
they should still be there.

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
DJ said:
Thanks for responding...but I did that already (Carey Frisch reply).
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Following those instructions is what gave me duplicates of the emails I
already have. It did not find my OLD emails it just found and duplicated my
current emails.
Do you want me to rename my current mail folder and then follow those
Click to expand...
instructions again? Anytime I search for *.dbx files it only finds my
current emails. I still don't know how to find my old emails.
 
I did an upgrade install. Everyone I ask keeps telling me they should be there but I can't figure out where.

Let's try another idea. I did backup all folders onto CD's. Would simply copying all folders backup my email or should I have done something special to backup my emails onto CD's?
 
Steve, Howard and Carey....I appreciate all your help. I got lucky and was able to have the old email I need resent to me. For now I don't need any other old emails so I am just going to drop it.

This was quite nice posting a problem and having people you never met help you out!

Again, Thanks!
 
I'm glad you got the emails you needed. If you did a upgrade (not a new
install with the upgrade version of XP) then your old emails should still be
there. They are stored in a different directory than the one that XP stores
them in. In Windows 98, they would be stored at: C:\windows\application
data\identities\{a very long alpha-numeric number here}\microsoft\outlook
express.
If you have not removed your old files after you upgraded they should still
be there.

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
DJ said:
Steve, Howard and Carey....I appreciate all your help. I got lucky and
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was able to have the old email I need resent to me. For now I don't need
any other old emails so I am just going to drop it.
 
I'm glad you got the emails you needed. If you did a upgrade (not a new
install with the upgrade version of XP) then your old emails should still be
there. They are stored in a different directory than the one that XP stores
them in. In Windows 98, they would be stored at: C:\windows\application
data\identities\{a very long alpha-numeric number here}\microsoft\outlook
express.
If you have not removed your old files after you upgraded they should still
be there.
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Glad everything is okay for the time being. Just a thought, did you enable
the Search to look in hidden/system files? It is not enabled by default.
May be why you coulcn't find them.

Howard
 
I did a new install with the upgrade version of XP. And I did execute the search to include looking in all hidden files. I'm not sure what I did wrong or where I'm missing them but I hopefully will not need to find out

Thanks guys
DJ
 
If you did a new install then the old emails are gone.

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
DJ said:
I did a new install with the upgrade version of XP. And I did execute the
Click to expand...
search to include looking in all hidden files. I'm not sure what I did
wrong or where I'm missing them but I hopefully will not need to find out!
 
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