Outlook Express
 

Just re-installed XP on a new hard drive and transferred my old settings to the new OS. However, when I access Outlook Express the message contents are not displayed. I have tried sending myself test messages but all I get is the message title (who it's from etc) but the message field itself is blank.

Any ideas?

Swift,

With OLE you need to export it from your old OS and import it in to your new OS.

Take Care,

Richard

You could give this a bit of a looking at.

I've improved on my suggestions in that thread.

Navigate to:

C: \Documents and Settings\{username}\Local settings\Application Data\Identities\{hex identity string}\Microsoft\ Outlook Express

Delete all files in this Outlook Express folder in the new XP installation and copy in all the old files from the original installation.

This will give you all the POP3/SMTP e-mails but to get your web mails you'll have to re-create these accounts.

You'll have exported any Accounts settings as *iaf files and imported them into the new setup. And you can do the same with the Address Book (*.wab).

For "Rules" the way I describe is quite straight forward once you get the hang of hacking your registry.

Why you get the message titles but see no text is a fast ball. What do they look like in "Sent" items?

No text in any preview panes - Inbox, Sent, Deleted etc. Maybe OLE was somehow corrupted when I did the massive Windows update that was required?

Swift,

As long as the 20Gb drive is still intact you could boot off of it and export your OLE db. Otherwise the information is still there, you will have to manually link the information back, it is a little harder to do though.

Take Care,

Richard