Email on my CD Won't OPen

Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to do a
complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in code and ask me
to select encoding. When I do some of this it then says .pst files cannot be
opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I wrong
to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference. I sure would
appreciate some help.
--
Judy

Judy wrote:
Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to
do a complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in
code and ask me to select encoding. When I do some of this it then
says .pst files cannot be opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I
wrong to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference.
I sure would appreciate some help.

Copy the files to your hard drive; I think you'll find they work that way.

OK thanks, I will try that right now. Is there anything special I should
know about saving to my harddrive first. Thanks so much.
--
Judy


"Pop`" wrote:

Judy wrote:
Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to
do a complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in
code and ask me to select encoding. When I do some of this it then
says .pst files cannot be opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I
wrong to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference.
I sure would appreciate some help.

Copy the files to your hard drive; I think you'll find they work that way.

Copy the CD to your HDD. Open the folder and Select All to highlight all the
dbx files. Right click and remove the Read Only attribute.

In OE: File | Import | Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and
Import from an OE6 Store Directory and point to where you saved it.

Two notes:

If you have any messages currently in OE that you want to save, create a new
folder that does not have the same name as any on the CD and move them
there. Otherwise they will be overwritten.

If you did not include Folders.dbx in your backup, the import process will
not work and you will have to do each folder manually.

See the last paragraph under Outlook Express and the link within to restore
individual dbx files:
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Judy" wrote in message
...
OK thanks, I will try that right now. Is there anything special I should
know about saving to my harddrive first. Thanks so much.
--
Judy


"Pop`" wrote:

Judy wrote:
Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to
do a complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in
code and ask me to select encoding. When I do some of this it then
says .pst files cannot be opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I
wrong to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference.
I sure would appreciate some help.

Copy the files to your hard drive; I think you'll find they work that
way.

This group is about Outlook Express, which is a totally different product
from Outlook.
You might try news:microsoft.public.outlook or
news:microsoft.public.outlook.general
--
David Biddulph

"Judy" wrote in message
...
Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to do a
complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in code and ask
me
to select encoding. When I do some of this it then says .pst files cannot
be
opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I
wrong
to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference. I sure
would
appreciate some help.
--
Judy

A PST file is only used by Outlook, and not by Outlook Express. If you do
not have Outlook installed on the computer, a PST file is just a collection
of useless data which is unreadable by any other program.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Judy" wrote in message
...
Good Day: I saved all of my Outlook emails onto a CD before I had to do a
complete reinstall. But when I try to open my CD's it is in code and ask
me
to select encoding. When I do some of this it then says .pst files cannot
be
opened.
Can anyone help me to open my CD.
I also did a backup on a DVD and am having trouble opening it. Was I
wrong
to do a backup on a DVD. I really didn't know the difference. I sure
would
appreciate some help.
--
Judy