I upgraded to WinXP and my Outlook Express Inbox items disappeared ... are they lost?

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I've found my .dbx files under Win 98. I do as you say above, get to next (OE,File,Message,Next) the a blank line comes up and doesn't tell me where they (I know they are in my Win/Sytem file.)

So I click Browse and go thru all the files on C disk until I hit System, and it tells me it's empty.
I've tried System 32 and everything under both of the system file and can't find a thing and yet I can list them under the hidden files.

There's got to be something else. Hopefully, AB

hi ,
i recently switched to win xp pro from win 98...i did back up the program files folder on to another partition ...but now i cannot import my old messages to my outlook express

Thanks very much Leo - it worked a charm. I now have emails back that I deleted long ago. Gives me a chance to review them again. Thanks

hi,

i have loaded windowsxp sp2.i have taken mails back configured outlook express imported files every thing ok.suddenly my messages got disappered from all foder in outookexp.this is the second happening.
plz,give me some solution....

Where are my emails going?
Outlook shows them being download but they do not go to my inbox. I can't find where they are being downloaded to. They just dissappear.

How can I fix this problem?

Check your spam folders, and turn off any anti-virus or anti-spam software and see if perhaps they are interfering.

I had to back up my files on XP Pro due to a hard drive failure and now that I've used the restore wizard on the newly installed XP Pro, and I launch Outlook Express I don't see my accounts, files and such in their usual places. I thought that since XP Pro had a utility wizard everything would be back in its place as usual. I have only installed the Operating System-XP Pro on the new drive. I have not installed MS Office yet. ( I don't know what difference it would make if I did install Office --would it )?

Please advise.

i was sending mail useing outlook express and suddenly lights gone off and later i found my inbox is empty. so please help me how to get back those mails.

i hope that i clicked defult setting in microsoft outlook setting. my earlier mails,address are disapperd. can u help me to recover my old mails,address. now i am getting my new mails only.

I'll look for the .dbx files on my old computer, but seeing that they arene't connected, can I store them on my jump drive and install them on my new computer (xpHOME)How do I "install" the files so my new computer, outlook finds them?

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