Win2000/IE6 Help Needed Please (V)

me | 4/26/03 | bootless

[bootless]

Help, fellow Freepers! Here's my problem. I run Win 2000 Pro and IE 6, and had a trojan-caused crash. I ran Norton AV, and everything is OK, except for what happened when I did a clean install of Win2000. On bootup, I now have two choices: the old desktop, and the new desktop. Fine, no problem. I just have two parallel universes on my computer!

When I reinstalled IE6, all my old folders, inbox messages, sent messages, and my fancy subfolders (all .DBX files) I use for work did not migrate over. I can't even open them up in the old Win 2000 desktop.

After using the Search function on the older folders, as well as on the newer folders, I have identified the exact sub-sub-(etc) subfolders that they reside in, and made a copy of the DBX files I need into the folder where the new stuff resides (like Inbox, Outbox, Trash, as well as the newer ones I created in the new IE6). My problem: they do not show up.

I tried refreshing the view, restarting the program - nothing. Even tried importing them - nothing from the IE6 choice in the Import Wizard, and nothing from the Browse function where I can choose the location to import them from.

HELP! There are messages that I really, really need in there, and I can't get to them! Thank you so much!

[bootless]

bump for a desperate freeper. Off to Little League, but please bump to any computer experts...? Thanks!

[monkeyshine]

If you can find the folders, you might be able to make this work. Just a suggestion, as I am far from an expert, but can you take a back-up of the files, and place themfiles (.dbx etc) in the location where they belong?

I've done this with Eudora and it worked pretty well - I only lost the extras like replied or unread, etc.

[bootless]

Help!

[monkeyshine]

Oh nevermind. I guess you tried that. Maybe you have a conflict because you placed the old files in with the new set-up. Try to delete the new set-up files first?

Anyway if this doesn't help, it's a bump for you.

[bootless]

Hi - just running off, but that's pretty much what I did. When I open up that folder, I see ALL of them. When I open IE6, only the new ones show. ACK!

Maybe I should get Eudora, import them, and then export them to IE6 again. Thanks...

[monkeyshine]

You should never have used the screenname 'bootless'. You were begging for this to happen in the karmic cosmic sense.

[monkeyshine]

good idea. You can get Eudora for free.

[LibKill]

I'm calling in some help.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I''ll ping some folks!

[LibKill]

Thanks, Earnest. I knew we could count on you.

[green team 1999]

let`s bump it until someone get an answer for you.

[Justa]

Jeeze, why did you do a clean install of 2000? That was a bit extreme, particularly if NAV found and cleaned the problem. A new install would likely overwrite the C:\Documents and Settings\Bootless\... folder which keept your profile. Windows warned you of this during the reinstallation.

You can do a search for "*.dbx" to see if your old one is on the system anywhere. You'd check date and size to see if it's the old one. Most likely it's gone.

Backing up persistent files such as My Documents, Favorites, e-mail (.dbx or .pst), etc. is SOP before doing a reinstall. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you don't have any backups.

Take the opportunity now to prevent this in the future. Record everything you miss and when you think you've got everything use a CD burning program and back it up to CDR. Then save the session as something like "System [date].

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I always learn something on these "Help" requests!

See post above!

[Normal4me]

I'd like to help but I am confused as to how a browser is being used as an email client? :-)

[Justa]

"I have identified the exact sub-sub-(etc) subfolders that they reside in, and made a copy of the DBX files I need into the folder where the new stuff resides (like Inbox, Outbox, Trash, as well as the newer ones I created in the new IE6). My problem: they do not show up."

OIC, you found them. They're going to have a different security ID then your present one. Try removing the Archive property on them and making sure they're in your present Outlook Express folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[you]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{blah-blah-etc.-etc.-etc.-etc.}\Microsoft\Outlook Express. Then use Outlook to add or merge them into OE. I'm not too familiar with OE though, I use Outlook XP (the Office version) which uses .pst files.

[Amelia]

I had the same problem trying to import email files from an old computer to a new one. The files are THERE but OE6.0 does not 'see' them.

I tried both the import feature that comes with XP (which copied some but not all), and trying to import and export directly from OE6.0.

I hope you find an answer that works - would you ping me if you do? Thanks!

[ccmay]

Buy a Mac. Trojans and viruses are almost unheard of.

-ccm

[XDemocrat]

Only because there aren't enough Mac users to make
it worthwhile for virus writers to care about. If the Mac users get what they keep asking for and Mac's user numbers are as big as windows, the virus problem will be just a big. IMHO

[ccmay]

If the Mac users get what they keep asking for and Mac's user numbers are as big as windows, the virus problem will be just as big.

If your aunt had whiskers, she'd be your uncle.

There is no need for Apple to take on Intel and Microsoft, any more than Porsche needs to take on GM. Apple sells millions of computers every year and has a strong software base that lets me do anything I want or need to do with a computer.

-ccm