I just tried it. I copied a message from an OE folder to the desktop. Never done so before, but it worked. A mail copied like this has a .eml extension (that's the code, the description is unimportant). It is NOT .dbx, nor should it, because .dbx is the file that contains all those individual mails (like inbox.dbx).
I could open such .eml file in an OE window by simply double clicking on it. And I could even drag it back to OE (to my surprise).
It's not clear what's wrong with you (if anything is wrong), because
- you don't mention file extensions
- you don't tell us the file association for opening of the file extensions .eml and .dbx
- you mistakenly say the message in OE are in dbx format
- you want to do something impossible (converting a mail to a mailbox)
As long as you don't tell all the details about the error box you get, nobody will be able to help you with that.
Kees
Have Outlook Express Ver. 6 somehow and I find when you drag a message say from the "Inbox" onto your desktop you are unable to open same. Now somehow it has become the format of a "Windows Live Mail Message"
Yes! All messages within all the folders of Outlook Express are all in format of "DBX"
Also odd I had about 5 extra files within the folders of all Outlook Express of [sample of one] = "account{0C7DA8F1-D0A7-4FF6-AB37-61DB32862813}.oeaccount.VeriSign.oemigaccount" =
Before I could drag Email messages on to the desktop and they would open normally with as an Outlook Express message!
Also If you drag Email messages from the desktop to say Inbox they do become a DBX and within they become normally readable
Is there an converter to read same from the desktop or some way you can change the desktop messages from "Windows Live Mail Message" to the format of a "DBX"
Found I cannot export from outlook Express = receive an error box???
Now somehow would the repair of Outlook Express help?
Any suggestions??
Regards

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