Hi all, Many thanks to Andrew Hodgson for giving me the vital clue on this one. The problem was that I'd had Outlook Express running whilst I was coppying the files across. I'd forgotten about that. Having copied them across again, without Outlook Express running, I was able to import the whole lot without any further problems. Many thanks, Cheers, Terry ---- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Transferring Emails to New Computer the nonsense continues! > Hi, > I have seen this before. The problem is because OE has sometimes got control of the files even though it is shut. Try one of the following: > > 1. Log off, log on again, go back into the directory where the files are, and copy them - without running Outlook Express. > > 2. Log on as another user and attempt to copy them from there. If you have NTFS permissions set on the folders use administrator account. > > Andrew. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Terry Robinson > Sent: Fri 27/08/2004 13:50 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Transferring Emails to New Computer the nonsense continues! > > Hi Peter, > > I've just looked at that site and the only reference I found was to > DBextract which extracts messages from DBX files into a series of .EML > message files, that's not what I want. > > I'm trying to transfer all my emails from one computer to another. > > I've got as far as copying the DBX files across but can't get them to import > into OE on the new machine. > > I'm told that there are no messages or the folder is being used by another > application. This is XP Home. > > There are plenty of DBX files in the folder and it's not being used by > anything else. > > Does anyone have any idea as to how I can get round this nonsense? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Cheers > > Terry > > > ************************************************************ > > DESCRIBE ONLINE - MAKING IT EASIER THROUGH TEXT > > Terry Robinson B.Sc > 82 Albert Rd. > Crosshill > Glasgow > G42 8DR > Tel: 0141 423 2683 - Mobile: 07771 610002 > Web: www.describe-online.com > > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** vacation ## d > ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. > ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- > -- Type: application/ms-tnef > -- File: winmail.dat > > > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** vacation ## d > ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. > ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq