Robert: That was a rather convoluted way to do it. To fix the problem now,
I'd create a new folder with subfolders as appropriate, I.e., Inbox, Sent
Items, etc., and have it opened to half screen. Then open your Dummy folder
with the EML files and drag/drop them into appropriate folders. When
finished, you can delete the Dummy folder if desired. Now open the mail
program to half screen size, and drag/drop the EML files into the
appropriate local folder in the mail program (drop them into the Message
List pane) and they will be incorporated into the DBX file when you exit the
mail program.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
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"RobertC" <RobertC.2linvi@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> 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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