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Windows
DBX file
Outlook Express E-mail Folder
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.dbx files are used by Microsoft's Outlook express email application and contain your email messages.
Outlook Express saves your .dbx in a folder on your computer. To find this folder, open outlook express and select the maintenance option (tools > options > maintenance).
In this folder, you may find a number of .dbx files. Outlook Express creates a .dbx file for each message folder in Outlook Express. So inbox.dbx will contain emails from your inbox for example.
You'll also notice a file called folders.dbx. This file contains an index of all your message folders (and newsgroups) in Outlook express.
It is very difficult to extract individual emails from a .dbx file, however there are many applications available that are able to do this (see DBXtract link below).
Outlook Express comes bundled with most versions of the Windows operating system and is used to compose and view emails. Outlook express is probably the most common email client on the Windows platform. If you have the Microsoft Office suite, a more advanced version of Outlook Express, called Outlook is available which includes additional features such as a calendar.
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How can I look at old OE inbox files?
Many thanks
Did you use the export function? What is it you're trying to do?
I can make a snapshot and send you if I had an email address.
You could indeed send a snapshot but I don't think that will help solve how you created them. I'd take a guess and say that the first set (the file with a .dbx extension) was saved using the export function, whereas the second set (single emails within a folder) were saved by drag/drop to a folder.
Are you trying to import your emails, or are you trying to find out how you created two different types of backup?
Answer...Jay, "trying to find out how I created two different types of backup." And I think you answered that. Thanks.
How do you find out what the file attachments are attached to e-mails are and how do you the open them when the screen reads find a file to associate to the attachment.
Baffled
Thank you
William
I would truly appreciate any help here.
Rainy
I also found them in my recycle bin as BAK files. What to do please?
You have a few options, you could select all your emails then drag and drop them directly to a CD/USB memory stick (which is what I used to do) or you could use the 'export' function in the file menu.
Your other option would be to switch to a web-based email client (such as Google mail) which almost eliminates the problem of storing them on your computer - plus you can then access your emails from anywhere.
http://mail.google.com/