winkle wrote:
> copy over the whole folder that the old inbox is in, when you open up
the
> new xp outlook, goto options and maintainence, change the "store
folder" to
> the copied folder, ? then it gets all your messages etc, at least
that's how
> i backup emails from outlook. just retype the account details.
>
> buggered if i know.

yeah, i tried that. I tried both overwriting the dbx files with the
backup, that failed. then i tried putting them in another folder and
redirecting outlook to that 'store folder'. no luck. It just sees
inbox.dbx, ignores it and creates an inbox(1).dbx