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The Dawg · 01-04-2003, 10:27 PM

I am going through an old hard drive looking for some emails, is there a way to point the email program to the old drive's email folder?

Or is there a program that can access old emails?

Any help appreciated.

The Dawg

01-04-2003, 10:33 PM

dependent on what OS you were using on your old harddrive, you will find the old emails stored in different places. Once you find it, you can use OE's import feature to import the entire folder structure into your new OE. Hope that helps

iroc409 · 01-04-2003, 10:39 PM

if you're using express to express (i.e. not importing to netscape or eudora or something) you can just move the files. i'll see if i can dig up that stuff, i use full version now. it's been a long time since i've had to backup and update the files. they're really, really buried. but it works

01-04-2003, 10:39 PM

if it was a Win2k machine, I can tell you right away where you can locate it. I vaguely remember where it was in Win98...

The Dawg · 01-04-2003, 11:02 PM

The old system was Win98... Using Outlook 4 or 5.

The Dawg · 01-04-2003, 11:09 PM

I found it - They are .dbx files located in the WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express folder.

Thanks -

01-04-2003, 10:27 PM	#1
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01-04-2003, 10:39 PM	#3
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01-04-2003, 10:33 PM	#2
X37375787 Guest Posts: n/a	dependent on what OS you were using on your old harddrive, you will find the old emails stored in different places. Once you find it, you can use OE's import feature to import the entire folder structure into your new OE. Hope that helps

01-04-2003, 11:02 PM	#5
The Dawg Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: State Of Bliss Posts: 2,438	The old system was Win98... Using Outlook 4 or 5.

01-04-2003, 11:09 PM	#6
The Dawg Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: State Of Bliss Posts: 2,438	I found it - They are .dbx files located in the WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express folder. Thanks -