I suspect the messages are damaged during import (if not before) and
consequently, you can't recover the information that is lost. To check what
Michael suggests, try a CTRL-F3 on the message and see if those fields that
are missing are still there in the message header. If so, then you can try
what he suggests, although that would be extremely tedious.

You might consider my DBXtract or DBXpress extraction programs, which can
extract the messages intact and then they can be dragged back into OE. That
might eliminate the issues. See www.oehelp.com

steve

"Ted Kerin" wrote in message
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For my last 3 computers, I have always saved the mailbox files from
Outlook Express to a CD, then imported them into each newer computer's
Outlook Express, under a separate OE identity (like "oldmail", or
"mails2002_2004").. The imported messages have come from OE5 and also, I
believe, older versions of OE.

What I always find is that OE successfully imports a number of messages
into each mailbox. Then at some point OE begins dropping the info as to
sender and subject. The messages are imported, but now sender or subject
appears in the mailbox view, and when I open the messages they say
(unspecified sender) and (no subject). The problem is that, while it's
good that I still have the messages, it is difficult to search for the old
mails when I need them, without searchable sender and subject fields.

This problem only happens with large mailboxes. Some of these mailboxes
contain many messages, and many attachments.

I have tried trial versions of a couple of OE mailbox repair utilities,
but none of them have fixed this issue. This has happened more than
once -- it happens every time I import my old mailboxes, into each new
computer.

Any ideas, please, about how I may more fully recover these messages, so
as to be able to read and search the sender and subject info?

I assume that as a preventive, next time I should split large mailboxes
into smaller ones before saving to CD, but I am hoping there's a way I can
more repair and fully read the data on the messages already imported.

Thanks...