[access-uk] Re: Outlook Express.

  • From: "alex thynne" <alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:55:44 +0100

sorry mandy I meant to say windows plus M

Alex
skype name: grytpype2006
windows live messenger name: alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Mandy
Sent: 05 September 2008 17:23
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Outlook Express.


Hi Alex thanks for that - still hasn't solved problem but hoping to in a
couple of  days time with the guy I know who is a bit of a computer wiz -
however I think windows key f cuts out the first two steps of what you
instructed me to do.

Mandy.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: alex thynne
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 3:24 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Outlook Express.


  Hi Mandy

  this is what I do to search the whole of my computer for something, a file
folder, whatever:-

  1.    minimise aps using windows key plus m.
  2.    press f3.
  3.    in the field for all or part of the file name, type the name of
whatever it is you want to find.
  4.    tab twice to the look in combo box and select  where you want to
look for the file, you could use hard drives, c: D: whatever the number of
your hard drives is.
  5.     tab several times until you hear search.
  6    press enter and wait around. The computer will look for each and
every occurrence of that name, you could see it several times.
  7    at this point you can tab to the folder view list view.  Windows will
populate that view with anything it finds with the name you chose.  You
should be able to identify the path to where the folder or file is.

  Once you know where it is, you should be able to import the folder you
need in outlook express, you'll probably have to tab around the various
options for that.  I don't know Outlook Express but it shouldn't look too
dissimilar to other windows based programmes, it will have look in, various
views or whatever.  I can't help you necessarily with that as such. but if
you have an idea where something is from the windows search, that's half the
battle.

  Hope this helps.

  Alex
  skype name: grytpype2006
  windows live messenger name: alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  -----Original Message-----
  From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Mandy
  Sent: 05 September 2008 14:27
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [access-uk] Outlook Express.


  Thanks for emails, nothing has yet helped.

  I emailed a guy I know who works with computers - he said this:
  Search your whole computer for files ending in the extension .DBX

  Outlook express has a default store folder and if that somehow got moved,
that would have the same
  effect.  So if you look for any DBX files, and then find the OE store
folder and find that there are
  DBX files in there which are clearly the ones containing your messages,
e..g. they will have any
  custom folder names that you've made, the important thing to do
immediately, is to make a copy of
  all those DBX files, in fact copy everything that is in the folder they
are in, to a known safe
  location.

  Having done that you will be able to re-import them into O E by choosing
File menu, import messages,
  from a store folder.

  He says search the whole computer for this folder, how do I do that
please?

  Mandy.

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