Recently had a virus necessitating a complete Windows XP system rebuild. I
did the whole exporting of mail files/address book/etc to a CD for my (used
document "Outlook Express: How to back up and recover Outlook Express data"
#Q270670). Things seemed to work well enough, though several of my folders
(with associated E-mail messages) did not import after the system re-build. I
examined the mail files back-up, and the folders I wanted seemed to be in
there, but they did not import. I tried re-importing everything, but again
the same folders (and their associated messages) are not importing. Anyone
have any ideas? Is there a way to import select folders and their messages
manually from the back-up text files?

Thanks for your help.

Tom

You have to copy the CD to your HDD and remove the Read Only attribute. Then
you should be able to import.

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

"BOHICA" wrote in message
...
Recently had a virus necessitating a complete Windows XP system rebuild. I
did the whole exporting of mail files/address book/etc to a CD for my
(used
document "Outlook Express: How to back up and recover Outlook Express
data"
#Q270670). Things seemed to work well enough, though several of my
folders
(with associated E-mail messages) did not import after the system
re-build. I
examined the mail files back-up, and the folders I wanted seemed to be in
there, but they did not import. I tried re-importing everything, but again
the same folders (and their associated messages) are not importing. Anyone
have any ideas? Is there a way to import select folders and their messages
manually from the back-up text files?

Thanks for your help.

Tom

It sounds like some of the folders may have been corrupted. Do any of them
have a number appended to them (such as Inbox(1).dbx, etc.)? Were some of
the mail folders associated with another identity? See the info at this
link for more info on how to backup/restore Outlook Express:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"BOHICA" wrote in message
...
Recently had a virus necessitating a complete Windows XP system rebuild. I
did the whole exporting of mail files/address book/etc to a CD for my
(used
document "Outlook Express: How to back up and recover Outlook Express
data"
#Q270670). Things seemed to work well enough, though several of my
folders
(with associated E-mail messages) did not import after the system
re-build. I
examined the mail files back-up, and the folders I wanted seemed to be in
there, but they did not import. I tried re-importing everything, but again
the same folders (and their associated messages) are not importing. Anyone
have any ideas? Is there a way to import select folders and their messages
manually from the back-up text files?

Thanks for your help.

Tom