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outlook express recover accounts, identities, wab, dbx, oh my!

Asked by dtleahy in Email Clients, OE-WindowsLive

Tags: outlook express 6, email accounts, recover from crash

Outlook Express 6, XP

I had a drive where the operating system crashed (would not boot.) I decided to start over, with a new computer. To grab information from the old computer, I installed the old hard drive as a slave drive. I can see the .dbx files and the .wab files on the old drive, but I am unable to import them.

The files on the old drive were not backed up, they are just the old working files for Outlook Express.

The new computer has new identities: new Admin name, new computer name. I tried to simply copy the dbx files over, and I can read old email (if it was downloaded), but there are no email accounts set up in the new Outlook Express. (That's part of the problem - I don't even remember the account details such as passwords. If I completely start over, go back to my ISP and get new passwords, I suppose I could download all the messages again, but hey, why should I have to do that? All the data is here, and I think the problem is identities, and the order that I need to do the operations.

I renamed the computer. Now, it has the same name as the old computer on the network.

Let's pretend my old computer was called Aardvark, and the Admin account was called Administrator. So the old email folder (on the old hard drive) was

D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.AARDVARK\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{06944A76-F27C-439C-A716-EE65FF8DEC0A}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

I suspect that I need that exact folder structure on the new C drive, but want to ask how to do it correctly, so I get the registry entries correct.

Best case: I make an identity, copy some files, and have all my accounts working again, including the emails, folder structure, address book, message rules...

Worst case, I'd like to get the identity set up correctly, so I at least get the email accounts and their passwords working again.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks!

Dennis
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