Resolved Problem Importing One OE Folder

My wife's OE6 seems to be strangely deleting e-mail messages from some of her Inbox subfolders. I have some e-mail backups I created using the store folder. I tried to import one folder from the backup group - I put it in a separated folder in My Documents. When I use the Import Wizard and try to import that one folder, I get the message shown below.

I have successfully imported the entire Store Folder before but this is the first time I have tried to do only one file or folder. Any thoughts as to what I may be doing wrong. Also, any thoughts as to why e-mails may be disappearing from some of the Inbox subfolders?

 

Steve,

Sorry for the delay. I tried putting the file on the desktop but came up with the same result.

Interesting note. My wife has Google Desktop Search that she has used in the past to successfully find e-mails. She just used it to look for a certain e-mail and it found the e-mail and it is one that was in one of the store folders that now shows as empty. So the e-mail is in there - apparently not in the store folder that is used for the maintenance of OE.

If I could find where those e-mails might be lurking, perhaps I could import them from that location. Any thoughts on that?

 

Update. Steve, I just found an old post of yours from 2007 that answered the question for me. http://www.windowsbbs.com/microsoft-mail-outlook-outlook-express-windows-mail/61355-where-outlook-express-data-stored-xp.html You suggested a search for *dbx files - it worked for me. So thanks.

I must have used the wrong search terms when I searched on this site as I didn't find that thread. I used Google and that was the first hit that showed up.