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Chippy_Minton

derrick wrote:

the in boxes are dated 16-o6-06 X 2both having 5818 kb, and 16-10-06 with 2315 kb

It's impossible to have more than one inbox.dbx in the same folder. Are they named slightly differently or in different (sub)folders? Either way, rename them to oldinbox1.dbx, oldinbox2.dbx etc. and put them all in the same folder. The procedure will create an empty inbox.dbx and, as long as you as you have deleted folders.dbx, create an OE personal folder for each .dbx file.

Chippy_Minton

derrick wrote:

It says if I do not have the "folders.dbx" to do certain things, but I do have that folder and I cant see where to start

Ignore that first sentence.

You have folders.dbx, but you are going to create a new OE identity, copy all .dbx files from your current identity into the store folder for the new identity and delete folders.dbx in the new store folder. When you open OE for the new identity it will recreate folders.dbx based on the other .dbx files in that identity's store folder.

derrick

Chippy_Minton wrote:

It's impossible to have more than one inbox.dbx in the same folder. Are they named slightly differently or in different (sub)folders? Either way, rename them to oldinbox1.dbx, oldinbox2.dbx etc. and put them all in the same folder. The procedure will create an empty inbox.dbx and, as long as you as you have deleted folders.dbx, create an OE personal folder for each .dbx file.

All of them have the same name,(inbox.dbx) with the kb's as above.
How do I put them in the same folder? they are,at the moment in the search window.
I am a complete novice at this , but as I see it the ones that I have in the search window need importing to OE, in simple terms how do i do that? assuming i am correct in what I am saying

Chippy_Minton

derrick wrote:

All of them have the same name,(inbox.dbx) with the kb's as above.
How do I put them in the same folder? they are,at the moment in the search window.

Open Windows Explorer, create a new folder in My Documents, say 'OE recover', select them in the search window and drag into the OE recover folder.

derrick

Chippy_Minton wrote:

Open Windows Explorer, create a new folder in My Documents, say 'OE recover', select them in the search window and drag into the OE recover folder.

Have done that, but looking back to my search window it has duplicated the searches ,so there is now 28 items, as it has only put in 1 "inbox.dbx" dated 16-06-06

Chippy_Minton

Sounds like search has simply picked up the files you've copied into the OE recover folder. If there are multiple inbox.dbx files in the search window, copy them individually to OE recover folder. If it says the file already exists, click Cancel, go to OE recover, rename the existing inbox.dbx file to something like oldinbox1.dbx and then the copy should work without warning you. Repeat this for each inbox.dbx file in the search window, and use a different filename for the rename, e.g. oldinbox2, oldinbox3 etc. The idea is to get all your .dbx files with unique file names in one folder.

When finished, close the search window.

derrick

would it be better to cancel everthing and start a new search, because I have now copied everthing that is in the search window to the OE recover folder,when i was asked if i wanted to change any files as they where already in the folder, i clicked no.

Chippy_Minton

Yes, start again. Delete everything in OE recover folder and search again.

derrick

Have deleted OE recover folder, tried to delete search window, but get this message:- cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disc.
Have deleted recycle bin

derrick

having closed and reopened OE, I now have 74 messages in my inbox, all of which where deleted earlier, why have they returned?