Re: Exporting Newsgroup messages from a old computer

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:12:27 -0600

"Hari Prasadh" <excel_hari@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23hrhzlv$EHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I subscribed to some Microsoft Newsgroups through Outlook express in my
> old
> office ( Win 2000 and probably OE 6)
> Before quitting that job, I copied the outlook express folder as it is
> (and
> no other folder) which contains DBX files like
> "microsoft.public.excel.misc.dbx" , "Drafts.dbx" etc. in to A CDROM.
>
> a) At my home I have OE 5 and Win 98 and also have the Newsgroup of
> interest
> already configured. Since, my home and previous office newsmessage are not
> synchronized so I want to ADD the newsmessages in my CD to the respective
> newsmessages in my home computer's OE. I tried to doubleclick on dbx files
> in the CD but they dont open up in OE. Whats the procedure. is it possible
> for me to retrieve those messages?
>
> b) I would also like to ADD the above messages to my new office's computer
> (Win XP and OE6)
>
> I had been to Marfer's notes site -
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6386/IE_ng_notes.htm
> What you have to do is set up the accounts for both OSs in the registry so
> they match. The easiest way to do this is to equate the 3 registry keys
> below for the two OSs. Export the keys from one OS, then delete them in
> the
> other, and import them and that should work.
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express
> Where
> GUID represents your Identity number.
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager and
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express (by Steve Cochran)
>
> Problem is I dont have registry key settings of my old office computer. Is
> there a way out?
> --
> Thanks a lot,
> Hari
> India

You can retrieve the messages with DBXtract or DBXpress (www.oehelp.com) but
it's kind of pointless. OE will delete them as soon as it discovers they
have been deleted from the server. 

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