Installing Outlook mail files ... inbox.dbx, etc

[Dodge7]

I saved my email files [like inbox.dbx] on a CD when I moved from Win 98 to Win XP. I thought it would be easy to just put them in the proper directory of the new Outlook program.

I tried placing the files in the directly where they belong [where the inbox.dbx, outbox, etc normally reside] in Outllook Express,yet it doesn't see the email.

Is there a way or utility to import my email files from the CD I saved them to, or is there a directory in Outlook Expree or Outlook I can manually move the files to where they would be seen by the programs?

[Digitalic]

Try copying your saved .dbx files from the CD to your hard drive. Fire up Outlook and click files\import\messages. Select the version and browse to the directory.

[glc]

BEFORE you do the import, after copying the .dbx files to the hard drive, remove the read-only attributes.

I'd copy them to some temp directory - when you do the import, import from a store directory - that temp directory where you put them is the store directory.

The reason you can't find them is you put them in the wrong place - 98 stores them in a totally different location than does XP. The import function is the only sure way to put them where they belong.