Old computer OS is Win 98SE; I copied all my Outlook Express messsages to CD as .dbx files, e.g. Inbox.dbx.
New computer OS is XP Pro. How can I get Outlook Express on new computer to read messages from old?
> How can I get Outlook Express on new computer to read messages from old?
Here is one of the easy methods..
install outlook express in your XP.. open outlook express.ofcourse you would not find any messages.
navigate to that path. you would see all dbx files there..
now copy the dbx files from CD (the ones that u copied from 98 machine) and paste it in that location.
now open OE and see if all your emails are there.
Oh forgot . if you want to move the address book , you should have saved a file by the extension *.wab.
copy that file over to this new machine and then opening OE , you can import it .
so you went inside OE and created a sub-folder under inbox called dave or Dave , right ?
Once you had done that, close OE and go to that path and you should see dave.dbx or Dave.dbx .. Do you see that ?
now when you copy your Dave.dbx from CD , copy it from to a location on your XP machine(not in this path,, some other location).. right-click , go to properties and make sure it is not read-only. now copy it to this path.. Does it replace the file already there .. if yes, make sure after replacing that the file size of it is correct.
I have a similar problem, I transfered my "offline.dbx" from an XP machine to a new XP machine.
folder. I restarted OE, but none of the Offline messages are there from the previous offline.dbx. When I check the OE Mail folder where all the .dbx files are located, there is a new file called "offline (1).dbx. Any suggestions?
You need to open a new question for this ..