how to transfer OE folders, from a non-boot drive (that used to be boot drv)

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Josh1 Administrator	posted September 05, 2006 03:12 PM Hey glad you got it working and thanks for telling us what happend to get it to work. You are welcome for the help ------------------ Forget not my law but let your heart keep my commandments Proverbs 3:1 Powered by Intelligent Computing Solutions. ------------------------ www.footslog.com For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted September 05, 2006 06:14 AM I solved this. I just put in a new drive with XP on it, and imported the email messages, and it worked fine !! from this I have learned... be careful of any beta programs, and use system restore for any big changes made. thank you for your help with this.. Appreciatively Jon www.helpusall.com help us all ------------------ Explore the things that you feel are more important than yourself. Never stop moving towards 'better' http://www.helpusall.com IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted September 04, 2006 02:48 AM Hi, thank you for coming back to volunteer your time and effort to help that link does not fix the issue. I have an earlier backup of the OE folders that I can access fine, but Importing them, also only lets me view the email titles, but not the email bodies. i will try to uninstall and reinstall OE IP: Logged
Josh1 Administrator	posted September 03, 2006 05:08 PM I know you also have waited a while for your answer, and I am sorry. Is this the same problem you are having http://www.footslog.com/board/Forum14/HTML/000411.html Have you tried the transfer wizard? ------------------ Forget not my law but let your heart keep my commandments Proverbs 3:1 Powered by Intelligent Computing Solutions. ------------------------ www.footslog.com For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted September 02, 2006 05:41 PM I checked and the original OE dbx files are not read-only. So far, it appears that somehow they became read-only in the import process... and if they can be made not read-only, then the emails should be visible. I'm considering to uninstall OE and reinstall it, and see if that has any results.. ------------------ Explore the things that you feel are more important than yourself. Never stop moving towards 'better' http://www.helpusall.com IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 31, 2006 05:44 PM i may have found the clue that will lead to th change to fix it. I had read several people had problems, and it was caused by their OE folder and subfolders being 'read only' I checked and my OE folder is 'read only'. I changed it, but the change doesn't stay.. ir reverts back to 'read only' MS's help pages say this can happen when the files are copied from a read-only media (CD, DVD, etc). I copied my files to (and from) a hard drive, so this doesn't appear to be the cause of them being read-only. MS suggested a fix of renaming for folders.dbx file to folders.old.... then restarting OE. That didn't fix thing either. IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 30, 2006 11:16 PM thanks tons.... IP: Logged
Josh1 Administrator	posted August 30, 2006 11:15 PM Hey let me have a look into this. ------------------ Forget not my law but let your heart keep my commandments Proverbs 3:1 Powered by Intelligent Computing Solutions. ------------------------ www.footslog.com For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 30, 2006 06:20 AM I transferred the bdx folders in, using the Import feature. Now the titles of the emails are in OE, however, the text of the emails doesn't show. I thought the compression-step may have lost part of them data, so I erased them and Imported some email dbx folders i can copy&pasted a month ago. But they also show only the titles. ? IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 30, 2006 05:51 AM okay, i've had some success i found that the OLD drive would boot, so i booted with it, and that gave me access to the email folders. Howver I wasn't able to copy, cut, or drag&drop them. After some looking around, i found out that i could compress them to a zip, and then open them in a different folder (on the NEW drive) so right now, i have the dbx folders on the good NEW drive, and i'm just figuring how to put them into OE so it 'sees' them. i'll post the solution when i find it too, hoping this might help somebody else too (figuring out i could move the folders using compress&open was fun to discover IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 30, 2006 03:24 AM I've been digging around... on the old non-bootable (registry damaged) drive... I found a word doc where i typed the email folders location. It is in Documents and Settings....Owner.... etc --but the system won't let me access the Owner folder. I did have a password for logging into the XP on that drive, maybe that is why I can't access it. I can right click, and access Properties, and Securities. I don't understand anything there. Is there a way to change some setting in there, or give my password? If i can just view the files, then i can copy the email folders, and it's mission accomplished. *fingers crossed thank you appreciatively JJ IP: Logged
jonnyj Member	posted August 29, 2006 10:09 PM This issue was started in the CyberSafety thread... with the Windows Defender error. I now have my (old) bootable XP drive, with XP, and OE on it... but it won't boot anymore since i changed the registry. I also have a (new) bootable drive with XP on it. I boot with the NEW XP drive, and I can browse the contents of the old XP drive. I want to transfer my OE emails from the OLD drive, and put them onto the NEW drive. The NEW drive currently has no emails. I tried to open OE from the OLD drive, but it opened fresh and wouldn't say where my dbx email folders are. The goal is to find how I can get my emails and addresses from my OLD drive, and put them on the NEW bootable drive! I've searched for *.dbx files, and none are found.. JJ IP: Logged

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