Phoenix from the flames

Scooter McGraw · Jan 17, 2012

Hi Guys

Back after a long time as my last issue meant the untimely death of my trusted and time served computer Although it only had a 1.8 Gig single core processor, 1.25 Gig of RAM, 80 Gig HD and 500MB graphics I did love it. It served me well for ten years.

Anyway, to make myself feel better I went out and bought a new machine. I have 3.6 Gig Quad Core processor, 8 Gig RAM, 1TB HD and 2 Gig graphics card!!!!!!!!!!!! I never realised how good a computer could be!!! But I expect lots of you chaps have machines that make even mine look like a Texas Instrumenst calculator! Still, I didn't think that was bad for £350.

Anyway, the crux of the matter is this. Luckily I have a friend who works in IT who managed to salvage lots of data from my dead HD, but some really important stuff I have no access to. I'm self-employed and have lots of work related info saved onto an external back up HD from the old computer, but it was from Outlook Express and I now have Windows 7 that doesn't have OE. I cannot open it up to read or print.

Any ideas about what I should do? Many thanks in advance.

LoneW0lf · Jan 17, 2012

You can buy Microsoft Office 2010 which comes with Outlook though i think it`s just the home and business edition (and professional) here`s a free trial to see if it does what you want it to do:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-business/

Scooter McGraw · Jan 17, 2012

LoneW0lf said: ↑

You can buy Microsoft Office 2010 which comes with Outlook though i think it`s just the home and business edition (and professional) here`s a free trial to see if it does what you want it to do:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-business/
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Hi

Sorry, I never made myself clear. I have got MS Office installed and have got Outlook because there is no OE anymore. But Outlook cannot read OE .dbx files, which screws it up for me. Cheers.

Jerry808 · Jan 18, 2012

Here is a link to a free viewer for OE databases. I found it by checking email group here at MG. I have not used it but it looks like it should do what you need.
http://www.mitec.cz/mailview.html . Good luck
Jerry

tgell · Jan 18, 2012

You can install Windows Live Mail and then import the dbx files. I am not sure if it work if you copied individual dbx files to the external hard drive. If you copied the whole Outlook Express Folder over it should work.

In Windows Live Mail...
File - Import - Messages - Microsoft Outlook Express 6

Edit: Found a better explanation

1. Create a directory under the current user's Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible access permissions problems.
2. Copy all the dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. Go to Edit | Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File | Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import. :
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