I have downloaded all my hotmail folders to Outlook Express, I thought it was such cool feature and have all my correspondence on my computer and not floating somewhere in cyberspace. It seemed I was successfull, however, I don't see them in my Outlook Express anymore. I found the .dbx files in "C:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\{3EE9213C-48B4-46EB-8FCB-3d4e5d345e3dee}\Microsoft\Outlook Express" but I can't seem to open them. Please, help me. I tried to select FILE-IMPORT-MESSAGES-MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS 6, CLICK NEXT AND SELECT OPTION TO "IMPORT MAIN FROM AN oe6 STORE DIRECTORY, CLICK OK AND BROWSE TO FOLDER WHERE DBX FODER IS. Couldn't make it work. Please, How can I open these .dbx files? Best Regards, Ilse Menger

Hi Ilse Menger; Ive heard that DBXtract works well although I've never used it. Although I do use tomsterdams web site. A lot of good information can be found there. Copy and paste this link in your address bar. http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tools/index.htm#dbxtract I also like OE6. Good luck.

Here's what has worked for me. Say your large hotmail file is called hotmail.dbx and you have downloaded it to your desktop. Go into OE and create a new folder called hotmail. It will be empty of course. Then exit IE. So you now have two hotmail.dbx files on your hard disk, the very small hotmail.dbx that you just created, and the large hotmail.dbx that you downloaded. Then overwrite the new small OE hotmail.dbx file with the large hotmail.dbx file you downloaded. Then open up OE, and your OE hotmail file now has all your old mail in it.

I don't understand how you "downloaded" them. I just `move' them from the `online' Hotmail folder to folders I have created in Hotmail and the immediately show up. I just thought! Do you have Hotmail setup in OE? Maybe that's what you have to do.

OOps sorry, correction! "I just `move' them from the `online' Hotmail folder to folders I have created in Outlook Express and they immediately show up."