Backup, Transfer Outlook Express DBX
John Ratliff: “My sister is a missionary in Zambia, Africia and she’s home to visit our mother. While home her Dell computer (out of warranty) went on the blink. It powers up sometimes then dies. She bought a new HP notebook and she’s trying to get her Outlook Express folders from her old Dell over to the HP. Somehow she’s lost Outlook Express altogether on her Dell… do you know where the folders for Outlook Express reside on the hard drive? If she was to download Outlook Express again on the Dell, would it pickup her old folders or not?”
I believe you’re looking to transfer the DBX files – we posted a tutorial on how to back ‘em up a while ago. Step through the process on the Dell, and then copy the files you find in that folder to the same location on her HP.
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5 Comments
Anonymous
June 7th, 2007
at 1:20am
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robert
March 9th, 2007
at 4:04pm
HI I had been running windows xp, with microsoft outlook 2000…I upgraded to Vista home and now can’t get my address book to export to the Vista Mail….Vista mail only accepts import of CSV, LDIF, vCard, Outlook express contacts or Works..none of which does it appear I can get the outlook 2000 to cough up (I can open the outlook 2000 but the adress book can’t be found due to an “unable to find the WAB DLL file.
Can you suggest what I may do?
Thanks,
Robert
Mark Allison
May 4th, 2007
at 1:52pm
If you are going to use tags, it would be helpful if you would explain how to use them. I have the same question about OE file transfer but clicking on the tags takes me to a page that is absolutely no help in finding your article.
Markus Diersbock
March 14th, 2008
at 2:33pm
If she still is able to access OutLook Express, she can find her DBX files under
Tools | Options | Maint | Store Folder.
If she is unable to access Outlook Express, fire up RegEdit, goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities” and do a search for “Store Root” which will show her the path.
Create a new Outlook Express install and copy these files into the newly created
folder (finding in the path as mentioned above).
You used to be able to copy the backup files to a new folder and set Outlook Express to use the new folder, but now it tries to copy it’s files to the new folder.
Carsten Cumbrowski
November 6th, 2008
at 8:25pm
This article might helps.. it’s the most comprehensive and easy to understand one that I came across so far.
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/clone.htm
If anybody knows how to link existing DBX files back into an existing OE folder structure in Folders.dbx, let me know (no, I cannot simply delete Folders.dbx. I don’t want to reorganize 1,000 folders in multiple levels because 100 folders are not in the index (anymore))