[pchelpers] Re: Outlook Express Folders
- From: Scott McNay <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Eric Furman <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:26:14 -0500
Hi Eric,
Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 6:53:06 AM, you wrote:
EF> Following on the advice from Ekhart and Robert and using the OE Import
EF> Messages Wizard - from an OE store - I pointed the Wizard to the
EF> Identities/MS/OE store on the CD and ended up with the following fault
EF> message: "No messages can be found in this folder or another application is
EF> running that has the required files open. Please select another folder or
EF> try closing applications that may have these files open".
EF> This message is bewildering because I don't have any other program open
EF> that is accessing those files. And as for being asked to select another
EF> folder - that is nonsensical as there is no other folder holding these
files.
EF> He's due to bring his comp in to me on Saturday morning.
EF> I've even tried to import them to my own OE Express (I'm not using O/E - I
EF> prefer Eudora), but end up with the same result. Though I had no trouble
EF> importing his address book. His old machine was using Win98 so does that
EF> pose a problem?
What's possibility of file(s) being corrupted?
Also, make sure that they're not Read-Only. Often, when I make a backup to a
CD, I forget that the Read-Only flag gets set, and forget to unset it again.
--Scott.
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