My old system crashed. The operating system was ME and used Outlook Express.
My replacement computer uses XP and also Outlook Express.

My old system hard drive still works, and I have installed it in my new
system as a second drive. Is there some way to mosve my Inbox and Outbox
folders into my new system's Outlook Express "Local Folders"? (If it's just
a matter of moving the directories from the old disk, how do I recognize the
directory names? Is there a tutorial anywhere on how the files are formatted
and named, and how they can be moved to other Outlook Express folders?)

OM

OM wrote:

> My old system crashed. The operating system was ME and used Outlook Express.
> My replacement computer uses XP and also Outlook Express.
>
> My old system hard drive still works, and I have installed it in my new
> system as a second drive. Is there some way to mosve my Inbox and Outbox
> folders into my new system's Outlook Express "Local Folders"? (If it's just
> a matter of moving the directories from the old disk, how do I recognize the
> directory names? Is there a tutorial anywhere on how the files are formatted
> and named, and how they can be moved to other Outlook Express folders?)
>
> OM
>
>

Open OE. File/Import and point it at the second hard drive.

Alias

Search the old drive for *.dbx and then use File | Import and point to that
directory. Don't try and move the files into OE's message store directly.
That will mess things up.

If you want the address book, search for *.wab and then import that file as
well.

steve

"OM" <nomail@msn.com> wrote in message
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> My old system crashed. The operating system was ME and used Outlook
> Express. My replacement computer uses XP and also Outlook Express.
>
> My old system hard drive still works, and I have installed it in my new
> system as a second drive. Is there some way to mosve my Inbox and Outbox
> folders into my new system's Outlook Express "Local Folders"? (If it's
> just a matter of moving the directories from the old disk, how do I
> recognize the directory names? Is there a tutorial anywhere on how the
> files are formatted and named, and how they can be moved to other Outlook
> Express folders?)
>
> OM
>