Outlook Express Restore

chateauneufdupape

I have had to re format my 'C' drive. However, I copied the contents to another drive. Is there anyway that I can retrieve my old e-mails or contacts?

elvis_bloggs

chateauneufdupape wrote:

I have had to re format my 'C' drive. However, I copied the contents to another drive. Is there anyway that I can retrieve my old e-mails or contacts?

You can export all your contacts to disc but as for your old e-mails the only thing I can think of is to forward them to another account like Yahoo or Gmail.

scheming_gypsy

if you've copied your mails to another drive then copy them to your new drive in say My Documents\email. then setup your mail account again and go into > tools > options > maintenance > store folder and change it to where you've just copied your mails.

moneyuser

Assuming you're using OE6 and Win XP then

File ->
Import ->
Messages ->
Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6, then press Next ->
Select Import from an OE6 store directory, then press Ok ->
Click Browse and find the folder with your messages in, eg

Z:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\!!255D7815-57FE-4426-8029-80B8371D4D7D}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

(where Z is your backup drive)

then follow on screen instructions

Contact details are stored in *.wab files so go to

File ->
Import ->
Address Book ->
then just browse to where your wab file is, eg

Z:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book

CrazyChemist_2

I recently had to do this but with help from scheming_gypsy, I managed to retrieve the messages.

I found that although I'm using OE6 and Win XP, there was no option to import apart from OE4 or OE5. Also OE was being very slow, but as soon as I installed XP SP2, the problems stopped and it's fine now.