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General Category => Software => Topic started by: joeyit on September 12, 2003, 10:20:14 AM

Title: saving outlook expres data
Post by: joeyit on September 12, 2003, 10:20:14 AM

my w 95 HD all mesed up and cant be used any more - crashing all the time & 100% full.  i would like to copy all data of the outlook express to another pc .
can i simply copy all uotbox.dbx, inbox.dbx & all other "boxes".dbx   from
c:\windows\application data\identities\"longno.string"\microsoft\outlook express
 to another pc to the same location?    and every thing will work ok?
or it need to be done in different / spesific way to work properly?
thank you in advance

Title: saving outlook expres data
Post by: TheReasonIFailed on September 12, 2003, 11:08:25 AM

Yeah that should work but don't forget to copy your address book.  Just do a search for *.wab

Once you've done that, copy *.dbx to the new Outlook Express folder and import the old address book into your new one.

Then all that will be left is a recreation of your email accounts so you may want to go in there and write down all the server information so recreating the email accounts won't be a hassle.