Hi Bruce,

Creating a new identity did not change anything. The import window was still
totally blank when it came up and I tried to import all the message files.

This machine will be relegated to my number 2 spot shortly, as I am starting
work on my new system. So I may just ignore this problem.

I see that Windows Live Mail can be used in XP. Do you think it's worth
switching over to it?? Of course, my new machine will be using Windows 7 Pro
64 bit, and will certainly use Windows Live Mail.

Can Windows Live Mail import all my messages from OE6? And when Windows Mail
is installed in XP, does that remove OE6? Or can one choose to revert back
to OE6 if desired? I would hope that this is like the situation in browsers.
One can have several installed, and choose the one to be the default.

Ron Hirsch

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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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OE is part of IE6, not IE8. Create a new identity and see if you can
import the messages there, If you can, import all your messages and dump
the current identity.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Ron Hirsch" wrote in message
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My system C drive on my main machine failed the other day with a refusal
to even have any OS recognized. So I replaced it, and restored an image
from True Image from the recent past.

Apparently there was some small corruptions in that image. And I have a
strange situation in Outlook Express 6.

All works well, except for when I click on FILEIMPORTMESSAGES to import
some dbx files from the past, or another machine running OE6. I have
these DBX files stored in a folder on my main machine, and the import has
always worked very nicely.

But now, when the import screen comes up, it is totally blank - nothing
in it.

I know a work around to do the import. But I'd prefer it it worked
normally. I can create a new folder in LOCAL FOLDERS, and name it to what
I'd like. Then I can go into my DBX archive folder, pick a DBX file, and
rename it to what I just created in my OE. Then replace the new blank
folder with the folder from the archive, by just overwriting it. That
does work - I tried it, and it still does work OK.

I clicked on FILEIMPORTADDRESS BOOK, and a "good:|" window did show
there.

Does anyone know how to "repair" OE6? I am running IE8, so some of the
suggestions I've seen won't work, as they imply that OE is part of IE,
and I don't want to mess with OE8.

Ron Hirsch