[Robbie S]

I had to reinstall XP, however before I did, I backed up all my DBX files to my external harddrive, Now that I 've got everything going again, I am having problems importing my email dbx files and I haven't been able to find this particular problem in any forum or "how to import" website.

Suffice to say that I followed the instructions on how to import from the main Identity and get a message telling me that the specified message sore cannot be opened and may be in use by Outlook Express. It tells me that no messages can be found in the folder or that another application running has the required folder open. I've tried variations of moving single or multiple DBX files to other folders but still get the same message. I copied the folder holding my DBX files to my desktop and that didn't help

I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what it is. I even printed out the instructions on "how to import to OE6" to make sure I was doing it right, but I get the same result. Can anyone tell me what I am missing? Thanks!

 

[blah789]

Check that the files are not set to read-only (right-click and view the properties).
Same for the folder.

 

[Robbie S]

Thanks, but no luck. I checked and found that they were set to "Read Only." I corrected that but had the same result. I tried importing them from both the main store and from a separate store but that didn't work.

I thought that maybe to import was too big (all the DBX files....) so I then copied one of the DBX files to a separate folder, made sure it wasn't marked "Read Only" and tried again but no luck. I again got the "This folder may be in use by Outlook Express notice. "

 

[blah789]

If all else fails, use dbxtract to retrieve your messages. it won't rebuild the folder structure, but you should get the messages back. You can try googling for an old version.