Retrieve Outlook Express in safe mode

[warton]

My other PC freezes at start up and will not progress beyond the User log on
screen. The PC can be run in safe mode and I have saved to memory stick my
inportant documents and files including my adress book. Before the freeze
problem I had several messages in my Outlook Express 6 inbox which I also
want to save to memory stick. Is there a means of opening OE in safe mode to
retrieve these messages. I feel I will have to format the PC and start again
so I must save all inportant data. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I
am running Windows XP with Office 2007

[Twayne]

There are a couple things you can do. One would be to use oebackupFree
to backup you mails, burn a CD, carry them to the other machine, and
Restore them.
http://www.oehelp.com/oebackup/default.aspx
It's a handy utility and can backup/restore everything; newsgroups,
wab, emails, by identity, etc.

Or you could search for the *.bdx files and copy those to the other
machine.

There are .dbx files for both your emails and newsgroups; you'll know
which are which by the names you've gieven them.

HTH,

Twayne`

[Bruce Hagen]

OE will open in Safe Mode. Do so just to find your message store location.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in
Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run.

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

If you can, follow these instructions.

Backup & Restore:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

If those instructions are beyond what you can do with the machine as it is,
just save the entire message store.

Click on the Outlook Express folder, (Message Store), that you found and
drag it onto the memory stick.

To restore, drag the message store from the memory stick to the Desktop.
Right click on it | Properties and remove the Read Only attribute.

Open OE and: File | Import | Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6
and Import from an OE6 Store Directory and point to where you saved it.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"warton" <war...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[warton]

Hi Bruce. Excelent instuctions to retrieve OE files. I now have four files on
my desktop all with the extension .dbx. When I try to open the files or drag
them into the newly installed Outlook Express I get error messages saying
that dbx files are not recognised. Dbx extensions do not appear in Control
Panel/Folder Options and my attempts to add DBX to the list has not worked.
Help Please. Regards

[Bruce Hagen]

You missed this part. "just save the entire message store". The operative
word being entire. You cannot import dbx files in the normal fashion when
Folders.dbx was not included in the backup. This will get them in manually,
Read it carefully.

If any of the dbx files on the Desktop have the same name as one in your
current OE folder tree, either move any messages out of the folder in OE, or
rename the dbx file first as the contents of the folder in OE will be
overwritten.

Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the one on the
Desktop. Open the new folder and then close OE. (You must do this). Go to
Windows Explorer and locate the Message Store folder for your OE identity,
but don't open it. Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the Desktop
in the right hand pane to the OE store folder in the left pane. Prompt - "Do
you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"warton" <war...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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[Panic]

If it's just a few messages you want to save, right click your
desktop...New....Folder. Open OE, find the messages you want to save,
highlight them, drag them to that new folder on your desktop. Copy that
folder to some media you can use on the computer you want to copy them to.
Copy that folder to the desktop, Open OE and open the folder, highlight the
messages and drag them into the OE folder you want.

"warton" <war...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Gerry]

Warton

Uncheck Send and Receive at Start Up -in Outlook Express select Tools,
Options, General.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[warton]

Hi Bruce. again excellent instructions, I decided that I was only interested
in two of the items on the desktop (inbox1 and outbox1) I copied them exactly
as you said and was prompted if I wanted to overwrite the files, which I did.
I now have inbox1 and outbox1 on the Local Folder string in OE, but niether
folder has content. The file size of the two folders is 139Kb &75Kb
respectively. Could it be that there was no data/files in the folders when it
was originally saved. Regards

[Bruce Hagen]

139Kb & 75Kb are empty folders. What size are they on the Desktop?

Did you create a folder named Inbox1 first, or did you try to drag it to the
default Inbox? You need to drag it to a user created folder with the exact
same name.

If you did that correctly, did you open the Inbox1 folder in OE and then
close OE prior to dragging?

Was the Outbox1 your old Outbox? Wouldn't be any messages in there.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

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[Gerry]

Bruce

A corrupted Sent Items folder can result in an Outbox with messages.

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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bruce Hagen wrote:
> 139Kb & 75Kb are empty folders. What size are they on the Desktop?
>
> Did you create a folder named Inbox1 first, or did you try to drag it
> to the default Inbox? You need to drag it to a user created folder
> with the exact same name.
>
> If you did that correctly, did you open the Inbox1 folder in OE and
> then close OE prior to dragging?
>
> Was the Outbox1 your old Outbox? Wouldn't be any messages in there.
>

[Bruce Hagen]

Yeah, but the messages would already have been sent and /continued/ to be
sent if Sent Items is corrupt. That is usually what happens.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

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[warton]

Hi Bruce. The folder sizes on the Desktop are 139Kb & 75Kb. As they are both
empty I am abandoning my efforts to retrieve the old folders. i did create
Inbox1 first in OE, closed OE down then used Message Store folder and dragged
Inbox1 from the Desktop into it. On re-openning OE Inbox1 folder is empty.
Many thanks for your help but I can live without the earlier OE files and
must move on to rectify my PC so that it runs normally. Regards

[Bruce Hagen]

You're welcome. The backed up folders are indeed empty. Did you copy and
paste to either the memory stick or from the memory stick to the Desktop?
That would have this result. Check the size of the files on the memory
stick. If they have messages in them, *drag* them to the Desktop.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"warton" <War...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Gerry]

Bruce

I agree.

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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bruce Hagen wrote:
> Yeah, but the messages would already have been sent and /continued/
> to be sent if Sent Items is corrupt. That is usually what happens.
>

[Warton]

Hi Bruce Files on memory stick are same size therefore empty. Thanks for
everything. Out. Regards