Can't import from OE6 Files

I'm switching over from XP, and copied all of the .dbx files from my wife's
and my user accounts into another drive. When I started up Vista and loaded
Windows Mail I was easily able to import my .dbx files and recovered all
messages, but my wife's files don't work.

I keep getting the message: " No messages can be found in this folder or
another application is running that has the required files open. Please
select another folder or try closing applications that may have files open."

I'm not running any other applications and have tried copying the files from
one folder into another and trying from there (including the Documents
folder) with the same result.

Now if I load the Live Mail Desktop it imports them just fine, but combines
them all into one folder instead of keeping the folder structure that existed.

Any ideas? I could really use the help. There are hotmail messages in my
..dbx files but would that be a problem?

Well, the last resort would be an extraction program such as one of mine
(www.oehelp.com), but I'd guess that your wife's files are probably read
only and you need to select them all and clear the read only attribute.
They also require that folders.dbx be included with the backed up dbx files.
Otherwise the import will fail.

So:

1. Make sure the files to be imported are not read only.
2. Make sure folders.dbx is in the directory from which the import is
taking place.

steve

"Backlash" <Backlash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82FA61F2-444A-4DAC-AD15-0F6C8CA09EDF@microsoft.com...
> I'm switching over from XP, and copied all of the .dbx files from my
> wife's
> and my user accounts into another drive. When I started up Vista and
> loaded
> Windows Mail I was easily able to import my .dbx files and recovered all
> messages, but my wife's files don't work.
>
> I keep getting the message: " No messages can be found in this folder or
> another application is running that has the required files open. Please
> select another folder or try closing applications that may have files
> open."
>
> I'm not running any other applications and have tried copying the files
> from
> one folder into another and trying from there (including the Documents
> folder) with the same result.
>
> Now if I load the Live Mail Desktop it imports them just fine, but
> combines
> them all into one folder instead of keeping the folder structure that
> existed.
>
> Any ideas? I could really use the help. There are hotmail messages in my
> .dbx files but would that be a problem?

Backlash, I had the same problem and I found that if I created a new folder
and copied the dbx files to that folder then point to that folder it worked.
Pay attnetion to where Vista thinks it's looking for the files. That was my
problme, I did not and that was the problem.

Good luck.

"Backlash" wrote:

> I'm switching over from XP, and copied all of the .dbx files from my wife's
> and my user accounts into another drive. When I started up Vista and loaded
> Windows Mail I was easily able to import my .dbx files and recovered all
> messages, but my wife's files don't work.
>
> I keep getting the message: " No messages can be found in this folder or
> another application is running that has the required files open. Please
> select another folder or try closing applications that may have files open."
>
> I'm not running any other applications and have tried copying the files from
> one folder into another and trying from there (including the Documents
> folder) with the same result.
>
> Now if I load the Live Mail Desktop it imports them just fine, but combines
> them all into one folder instead of keeping the folder structure that existed.
>
> Any ideas? I could really use the help. There are hotmail messages in my
> .dbx files but would that be a problem?