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Try using any backup utility to restore your emails. 
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Try using any backup utility to restore your emails.

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Wouldn't the backup utility need to have access to an actual backup? &nbsp;I have a backup of the original files via file copy, can you be more specific?
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Wouldn't the backup utility need to have access to an actual backup?  I have a backup of the original files via file copy, can you be more specific?

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I have a backup of my files from the boot drive of my eMac. &nbsp;I've had to reinstall the OS (10.2.4 with 9) and I'd like to restore my emails into Outlook Express 5.02. &nbsp;I've copied the Microsoft System Data folder back into my user folder, but that didn't help. &nbsp;Importing didn't let me choose a file to import from. &nbsp;As I understand it, all the emails are stored in a single file, which is in the System Data folder, but my new installation can't see them.<br />
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Help! &nbsp;Any suggestions and ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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I have a backup of my files from the boot drive of my eMac.  I've had to reinstall the OS (10.2.4 with 9) and I'd like to restore my emails into Outlook Express 5.02.  I've copied the Microsoft System Data folder back into my user folder, but that didn't help.  Importing didn't let me choose a file to import from.  As I understand it, all the emails are stored in a single file, which is in the System Data folder, but my new installation can't see them.

Help!  Any suggestions and ideas will be greatly appreciated.

How can I restore my Outlook Express email from a backup of my files on Mac?

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Windows Live Mail is the successor to Outlook Express, a discontinued email and news client bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and available for Windows 95 and Mac OS 9. In Windows Vista, Outlook Express was superseded by Windows Mail, then again by Windows Live Mail as separate software. Outlook Express is a different application from Microsoft Outlook. Beginning with Windows Vista Microsoft included Windows Mail, based on large parts of Outlook Express source code.