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Retrieving emails from backup?

Last year my old PC died and I backed up my emails onto my external hard drive. I tried to transfer them to my new pc but I think I did something wrong and a batch were missed. Now I really need to access these mails, I can see the folder on my external drive, but I can't open and read them. Any ideas?

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  • Aliktren
    Aliktren Posts: 306 Forumite
    when you say can;t, why not, are you getting an error ?
  • madmum33
    madmum33 Posts: 635 Forumite
    Thanks for answering, I found that they open in wordpad (but in a long stream of dozens of emails with odd characters everywhere). I have managed to find the emails I needed now. :)
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