Save the dbx files to your HDD. Right click on all and remove the Read Only
attribute. Did you include Folders.dbx? If you did, open OE and import them.

File | Import | Messages | MSOE6 and choose to Import from a store directory
and point to where you saved them.

If you did not include Folders.dbx, the import will fail and you will have
to get each dbx file into OE manually.

How to restore individual dbx files:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me?? Recently my computer crashed and they had to
put in a new hard drive.. When restored some of my e-mail messages were
there
and some not.. I had a lot of genealogy info in those dbx files, and would
like to restore them from a zip disk, however after I try to copy them
from
an earlier backup, the folders are empty. What am I doing wrong.. I am
SOOO
stupid about this stuff..!!!! All of the addresses and folders are there
from when she saved them.
Please help... In simple terms.. as I said.. I'm dumb about these things..
AND I'm OLD!! :^)) Thank you so much in advance...