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Re-installing Outlook Express

Discussion in 'Microsoft Mail (Outlook / OE / Windows Mail)' started by Pat Alley, 2007/12/05.

  1. 2007/12/05
    Pat Alley

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    If I reinstall the Outlook Express program would I lose all my existing email message files? If so how can I file these emails away into microsoft in a bulk format rather than one email at a time? I am using Windows ME.

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    Pat Alley

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    Thankyou Pete. I followed your instruction and after a couple of attempts managed to get a 'Mail backup' icon onto my desktop. On double clicking it displays all the files and on clicking a file (one is a Log file and the rest are dbx files) it displays the 'Open with' box. Which program should I choose? I have selected quite a few programs to open the file with but most give "gibberish" except Notepad and Wordpad which give some kind of interpretation interspersed with "gibberish ". Are these two the ideal programs or is there a better choice?

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    Emails are stored in OE as .dbx files - each folder has a .dbx file, Inbox, Sent items, etc. which contains the emails stored in that folder.

    The method of restoring those folders is outlined in the URL I posted.

    There is no way of saving multiple emails as .eml or .txt files to another location - it must be done singly.

    Software is available which will extract emails from *.dbx files to a text file - DbXtract is an example.

    I understand that in OE's successor - Windows Mail in Vista - each email is stored as a .eml file with a reference database.

    So, in answer to ....
    Basically, yes and no :)

    My own strategy on this is to move the Message Store (Tools > Options > Message Store) to my Data drive which is backed up on the hour, every hour that the computer is fired up to another drive.
     
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