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Old 01-05-2006, 04:39 PM
Steve Cochran
 
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Default Re: how to recover messages off a hard drive

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 for message recovery techniques.

Search for the old dbx files (hidden) and then use File | Import | Messages
to get them back into OE. Do not copy the files into the current OE message
store folder, as that won't work.

steve

"message preplexed" <message preplexed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:75D05015-F73A-44C3-9C19-41E13B99AE9B@microsoft.com...
> computer mother board died, took drive from that machine, placed in
> another.
> That computer will read disk(e) in windows explorer, and I can try to open
> oe6 off that disk, but always loads off c disk. Want to recover aal
> messages
> off that drive. Is it possible? and How?


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Old 01-05-2006, 04:40 PM
message preplexed
 
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Default Re: how to recover messages off a hard drive

Thanks got them out last night. Big help. Saved oe help pages also.

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 for message recovery techniques.
>
> Search for the old dbx files (hidden) and then use File | Import | Messages
> to get them back into OE. Do not copy the files into the current OE message
> store folder, as that won't work.
>
> steve
>
> "message preplexed" <message preplexed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:75D05015-F73A-44C3-9C19-41E13B99AE9B@microsoft.com...
> > computer mother board died, took drive from that machine, placed in
> > another.
> > That computer will read disk(e) in windows explorer, and I can try to open
> > oe6 off that disk, but always loads off c disk. Want to recover aal
> > messages
> > off that drive. Is it possible? and How?

>

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