Re: How do I restore news dbx files?
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"BERND SAUER"euse netc<nc-...@ologne.de> wrote in message
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> "Ron Sommer" <rso...@nospam.ktis.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag "Joe"
> <joe.m...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Hi - anyone can tell me how to subscribe to newsgroups?
> Thanx
> Joe
>
In Outlook Express go to Tools | Accounts | Add (or New) | News.
Set up an account for this news server:
The server is free and does not require you to logon. This news server
carries over 2200 newsgroups related to Microsoft products and keeps
messages at least 30 days.
For more detail see
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
And here are two articles Tom Koch wrote about using newsgroups in Outlook
Express:
Outlook Express Newsgroups 101
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/newsgroups101.mspx
Mastering Newsgroups in Outlook Express: Power User Tips
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/newsgroups.mspx
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
>> "Vanguard" <vangu...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:OJzE3tO0...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> : "Keith G Hicks" wrote in message
>> : news:Oz0SkFN0...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> : > I had to reinstall my OS (win2k pro) recently. I still have all my
>> : > news dbx
>> : > files from before. I was able to change my main identity's folder
>> : > setting to
>> : > see the folder where those files were. When I did that it blew away
>> : > the news
>> : > dbx files and kept the mail message dbx file. The mail ones show up
>> in
>> : > the
>> : > list of folders on the left in OE but the news is all gone.
>> : > Fortunately I
>> : > still have a backup of all the news dbx files but have no idea how to
>> : > get
>> : > them back into action in my OE6 app. I have dozens of them and do NOT
>> : > want
>> : > to have to figure out how to get them all back by setting up each
>> : > group all
>> : > over again. Plus which I'd lose all my "read" or "not read" settings
>> : > on the
>> : > various messages.
>> :
>> : Restore the .dbx files from your backups into a temp folder. Just
>> : restore the entire folder that contained your OE message store but to a
>> : temp folder. Then use OE's File -> Import to point to that alternate
>> : message store location. The messages will get imported.
>> :
>> : What won't get imported are the account definitions. If you look under
>> : the Tools -> Accounts menu, notice the Import and Export buttons. You
>> : pick an account and then export it to an .iaf file which you can later
>> : use to import into a separate instance of OE (the new one). The
>> account
>> : definitions are stored in the registry, not in a file so your backups
>> : won't have any info on them. If you didn't export the account
>> : definitions to later have them available for import, you'll have to
>> : recreate those accounts and then do the message import.
>> :
>> Only email dbx files will import.
>>
>> You can try setting up the newsgroup and replace the newsgroup dbx file
>> with
>> your backup dbx file.
>> This may not work.
>>
>> I have a list of my subscribed newsgroups in Word.
>> msnews.micnews://rosoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
>> --
>> Ronald Sommer
>>
>
>
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