"Jim Pickering" wrote:

"FatherJohn" wrote in message
...

If you extracted the files, in what format are they? And where are they
stored?

The extracted files are eml and are located on my desktop in a New Folder.
I can neither import them or the dbx files into Outlook nor can I open
Outlook Express. I still get the aforementioned errors.

Extacted EML files can be dragged/dropped into a local mail folder in
Outlook Express. Just drag/drop them into the Preview Pane of the desired
folder.


font color=blue If I could open OE, that would help, but I cannot open OE
at al./font


Once you completed the extraction, did you then *move* all of the
corrupted
DBX files that were in your message store folder to another location on
your
hard drive?

Yes, I moved them all from their previous storage location (My
Documents/email/) to a new folder called mail on my desktop. I dragged
everything - dbx files, folders and all from the previous location to the
new
folder on my desktop.


I'd suggest you then use Windows Explorer to navigate to that old folder and
make sure it is empty. Sometimes a drag/drop can result in a copy operation,
rather than a complete move and if the corrupted DBX files are still there
in the store folder, you will get the error message.


font color=blueI did that. deleted all vestiges of the old folder and
created an empty one in its place with the same name. The backed up files I
cut and pasted in a new folder at my c:root directory./font


Where GUID above is the key for each identity. If unsure, double click
each
GUID to check the username involved, then expand the key further for that
particular user to \Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0 (clicking on
the
5.0 to expand it) and look at the value in the "StoreRoot" key in the
right
hand pane.

This method seemed to indicate that the identitiy was located
under\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ but there are no dbx files and no
subfolders there. I am confused by that.



All it is intended to indicate is the folder where it looks for the DBX
files. It will not show any DBX files. If you are still having a problem,
I would suggest creating a folder and call it MailStore and create it on
your root drive (i.e., C:\ at the root and not in some subfolder) and after
creating that empty folder, amend the registry to show that location
(C:\MailStore). That should allow Outlook Express to open with a new and
empty set of default folders (Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, etc.). Good luck.

font color=blue I did this. Created the empty folder and pointed the Man
Identity in the Registry to that directory as you suggested.

Nothing has changed. All the errors remain exactly as they were.

I do not have the means to back up all my data and re-nstalling WinXP but
that seems to all left that I can think of. I am baffled.

Rebooting again after reinstalling OE for the fifth time..../font
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Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
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