Re: Address Book/Message Store missing
- From: "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:33:15 -0400
References:
Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm
OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm
Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5
Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
groovyfingers wrote:
maybe it's the way I'm importing or not importing.
I inserted the cd into my 2nd computer. I opened internet explorer and
expanded the D: Drive to see "My Outlook Express Identity" folder. Just
clicked on it and dragged to C: Drive. It copied to my hard drive.
Inside are three sub-folders, Address Book, Message Store and Registry
Keys. I open each of them and use "select all" to highlight the files.
Then I right-click and then select properties from the pop-up window. On
the Properties window, I remove the check for "read only" and click
"apply". I do this to each in turn. Then, I delete the four registry
keys using regedit, then I open up my "registry keys" folder and
double-click each key in the folder.
Have I imported OE, or is there something else I'm not doing? I figure
I've missed a step or misunderstand the restore/import action, because I
tried the procedure a second time with the same results. No messages, no
address book. But the registry keys that I deleted get restored/imported.
"Jim Pickering" wrote:
> You cannot import from a CD since all files on a CD are marked as
> Read-Only. Copy the files to a folder you create on your hard drive,
> select all the files, and clear the Read-Only attribute, then try the
> import.
>
> Or go back to Tom's site, and print out the instructions and follow them
> exactly, crossing off each step from the printed list as you complete
> them. --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "groovyfingers" <groovyfingers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:CE536A23-F828-432F-8A91-9B445C59F2E0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > performed clone OE off the Inside OE site. Moved to another computer,
> > attempted to restore. Deleted the four registry keys as instructed,
> > opened
> > OE, and no address book, no messages. Did I restore incorrectly? How
> > would
> > you restore? This was burned to cd. I put the cd in my computer
> > where I wanted to restore this info to. Different than the computer
> > I made the clone
> > of. I then changed the read-only check box to unchecked for all
> > files. Deleted the four reg keys and then double-clicked the imported
> > reg keys. But
> > no joy.:(
> > Should I try from the beginning and see if the second try works?
.
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