Thanks, Herb - I'll keep that in mind in the future.
I have backed up the whole directory tree and then just copied it back into place without any problem.
I do still have the moved file, but it won't import. Looking at it with just WordPad I can see that it is not the right info. I'm guess that it got screwed up when it was accidentally moved.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: MX OUtlook Express Question
i don't know where i read first learned this anymore, but you can't do that. if you had a backup, i would have said restore from that into another folder and import it into Outlook Express. as it was, an import of the moved folder is what you should have done. Microsoft designed Outlook Express do to some bizarre things that don't make sense even when you know why it works the way it does. this is one of them. each of the Outlook Express DBX files has a signature inside folders.dbx that identifies which are the current folder files and what they should contain. anything that doesn't match "enough" gets truncated and recreated. Outlook Express doesn't contain any really useful backup or export system either except for the address book. you need to look to third parties.
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:07 PM
Subject: OT: MX OUtlook Express Question
So, I copied the contents of the relocated folder back into the 'mail' folder and figured I was good to go - but unfortunately everything was they except my 'inbox'. There was an 'inbox.dbx' file that was huge,but it was not being read. Looking closer, I realized that the 'deleted items' folder, which should of been huge, was pretty small. Everything else seems fine - my 'rules' are intact, the other folders are OK.
