Hello!
I re-installed WindowsXP and saved the my instorage.dbx (573mb) on a CDRW
then saved a copy on my new desktop. It seems I cannot simply drag it into
my new OE mailstorage location. When I do this, OE lists the file name but
no data.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a million.

Easiest way is to create a new local folder and called it OldMail. Open the
new folder one time, then close Outlook Express. Now go to your saved DBX
file on the Desktop, right click it and clear the Read-Only attribute that
was set when you copied it to a CD. Rename it OldMail.dbx and insert it
(using Windows Explorer) into your message store folder so that it will
overwrite the existing but empty OldMail.dbx you created earlier.

In Windows XP, the DBX files are hidden by default by the operating system,
so to find your message store folder (where your DBX file are), you'll need
to modify the search criteria to include "searching for hidden files."

When you've done that, you can again open Outlook Express and your messages
should be found in your OldMail folder. But I'd suggest the first order of
business would be to clean out un needed messages from that folder or
archive them in other new folders to reduce the DBX file size, then compact
your message store folder. Allowing any folder (DBX file) to grow to much
more than 100 MB is an invitation to possible loss of stored messages.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Ted Hollywood" <ted.hollywood@issmachinery.com> wrote in message
news:uyxCf0WEGHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello!
> I re-installed WindowsXP and saved the my instorage.dbx (573mb) on a CDRW
> then saved a copy on my new desktop. It seems I cannot simply drag it into
> my new OE mailstorage location. When I do this, OE lists the file name but
> no data.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks a million.
>
>
>
>

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Ted Hollywood wrote:
> Hello!
> I re-installed WindowsXP and saved the my instorage.dbx (573mb) on a CDRW
> then saved a copy on my new desktop. It seems I cannot simply drag it into
> my new OE mailstorage location. When I do this, OE lists the file name but
> no data.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks a million.