Dear Jim:
Thank you for the prompt reply.
There are no CDs or DVDs involved. Everything is on the hard drive,
partition E:. I am not using Vista but Windows XP Professional 64.
For some reason, when I loaded it, it loaded on the E: partition rather
than the C:. On this computer C: is a Deskstar 80GB drive, D: is a DVD
drive and E: is a Hitachi 160GB drive. All of the files are on the E:
drive. I am not networked except for the DSL router.
I created a file which I named Dummy on the E: drive. I added an
identity in Outlook Express and changed the email store to E:\Dummy.
It automatically added Folders.dbx, Inbox.dbx, Offline.dbx and
Outbox.dbx.
The emails were gathered from various sources which consisted of many
backups. Consequently there were numerous duplicates. I converted
them all to .eml files with dbxconv.exe in a combined file called
Converted. Each of the .dbx folders had one or more messages. dbxconv
created a folder under Converted in the name of the dbx folder and put
the messages in them. If there were same name folders from the various
sources, it appended a numerical designation to the name in the form of
(n). If there were duplicate messages in the folders in appended a
similar designation to the end of the message name. When everything
was converted, I pulled up the properties on the file Converted and
cleared the Read Only checkbox for all sub folders. I then scanned the
result file with DoubleKiller.exe which flagged all of the duplicate
files based on date plus time received plus checksum identical. There
were over 1500 duplicates found and deleted. Now I would like to put
the remaining eml files back into .dbx form to import into Outlook
Express. If they can be imported directly, that would be great.
I am sorry for my ignorance. The last serious programming I did was 40
years ago on an IBM 360 in assembler and Fortran.
I tried to follow your instructions. I copied a couple of the sub
folders from Converted to Dummy. I also copied the contents of one of
the sub folders into Dummy. So dummy contains the dbx files noted
above plus two sub folders of .eml files plus a half dozen .eml files
from one of the sub folders. I opened Outlook Express and switched to
the identity for which Dummy is the store folder. Nothing happened.
I hope this is detailed enough to determine what I did wrong.
Thanks.
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RobertC
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