Restoring files/messages Help PLEASE???

[Vaughn]

Hope this is the correct group, but if not please redirect me.

I recently was forced to do a full rebuild of my system.

Before doing so I backed-up all of me *.dbx files I wished to keep, hoping
that after the rebuild I could restore these to their correct place, and so
not loose any data.

I could not use the export messages function, as I had nowhere to export
them to, or so I think.

Problem is now that even after restoring them, restoring them to another
folder, and copying them to their correct place, they do not seam to work.
As the restore goes through its process, the file, and folder names are
given correctly, but on opening the explorer window, they are not shown.

I am stumped, is there any way of retrieving this data, or is it lost
forever??

Any help offered, will be most gratefully appreciated, and for now thanks
for reading, and possibly offering help.

Cheers Vaughn

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Put the saved DBX files, including the saved Folders.dbx in an empty Windows
folder. Right click and choose Properties. Remove the checkmark from the
Read Only box. The use OE's File | Import | Messages.
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Post by Vaughn
Hope this is the correct group, but if not please redirect me.
I recently was forced to do a full rebuild of my system.
Before doing so I backed-up all of me *.dbx files I wished to keep, hoping
that after the rebuild I could restore these to their correct place, and so
not loose any data.
I could not use the export messages function, as I had nowhere to export
them to, or so I think.
Problem is now that even after restoring them, restoring them to another
folder, and copying them to their correct place, they do not seam to work.
As the restore goes through its process, the file, and folder names are
given correctly, but on opening the explorer window, they are not shown.
I am stumped, is there any way of retrieving this data, or is it lost
forever??
Any help offered, will be most gratefully appreciated, and for now thanks
for reading, and possibly offering help.
Cheers Vaughn