I had a hard drive go bad, and before it completely went out I quickly
copied as much as I could of the drive to my D drive. The old C drive
is now inaccessable unless I were to pay big bucks to some h/d
retrieval service.

I've gotten a new drive and reinstalled Win98SE.

I have the old .dbx files contained within the old identity folders
including various saved messages, newsgroups, etc. and find that they
can sort of be read with Wordpad, but with a lot of "noise" code. Is
there some way to move these old .dbx files to the new, reinstalled OLE
and have them be readable once again within OLE?

All input is appreciated.

If you included folders.dbx, then a simple File | Import | Messages |
Microsoft Outlook Express 6 (follow the prompts) should work.

See Backup & Restore:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

<docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I had a hard drive go bad, and before it completely went out I quickly
> copied as much as I could of the drive to my D drive. The old C drive
> is now inaccessable unless I were to pay big bucks to some h/d
> retrieval service.
>
> I've gotten a new drive and reinstalled Win98SE.
>
> I have the old .dbx files contained within the old identity folders
> including various saved messages, newsgroups, etc. and find that they
> can sort of be read with Wordpad, but with a lot of "noise" code. Is
> there some way to move these old .dbx files to the new, reinstalled OLE
> and have them be readable once again within OLE?
>
> All input is appreciated.
>

And if that File Import function doesn't work, you could try copying all
those dbx files to the OE folder set up on your new drive, delete
folders.dbx, and let OE rebuild it.

Bruce Hagen wrote:
> If you included folders.dbx, then a simple File | Import | Messages |
> Microsoft Outlook Express 6 (follow the prompts) should work.
>
> See Backup & Restore:
> http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS MVP - Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> <docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1136252464.258121.234530@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>> I had a hard drive go bad, and before it completely went out I quickly
>> copied as much as I could of the drive to my D drive. The old C drive
>> is now inaccessable unless I were to pay big bucks to some h/d
>> retrieval service.
>>
>> I've gotten a new drive and reinstalled Win98SE.
>>
>> I have the old .dbx files contained within the old identity folders
>> including various saved messages, newsgroups, etc. and find that they
>> can sort of be read with Wordpad, but with a lot of "noise" code. Is
>> there some way to move these old .dbx files to the new, reinstalled OLE
>> and have them be readable once again within OLE?
>>
>> All input is appreciated.

I've had success importing the mail messages and folders, but it didn't
include the newsgroup messages. Is there a way to import the old
newsgroup folders via the .dbx files?

Newsgroups neither import, or export. Only the account settings do, unless
you had cloned your identity beforehand. As of now, all you can do is
resubscribe. Sorry for your loss, but less of an impact than if you had lost
your mail.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

<docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've had success importing the mail messages and folders, but it didn't
> include the newsgroup messages. Is there a way to import the old
> newsgroup folders via the .dbx files?
>

were they of "binary" notation?

J & P

You can try the method in the last paragraph on this page to import
individual dbx files (www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx), which should also work
for NG files.

You can also extract the messages using DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/)
and then drag them into an OE local folder.

steve

<docsavage20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've had success importing the mail messages and folders, but it didn't
> include the newsgroup messages. Is there a way to import the old
> newsgroup folders via the .dbx files?
>