I do not have Outlook so I know nothing about it, all I can do is offer suggestions. 1. Restore the original folder names, there may be an index file somewhere that needs them. 2. Make sure a folder of the same name does not already exist in OE. 3. Try Importing back into OE and make sure Outlook is not running. Bob Hays __________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Craig" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 4:32 PM Subject: [OE] Outlook Express messages in limbo > > My daughter, in all her wisdom, had a cleanout of all my genealogical > messages in Outlook Express and moved the folders and their messages to > MyDocuments/Outlook.. I have tried to open them there and cannot read > them as they are all gibberish.. I have tried to import them back to > Outlook Express and receive this message: "The specified message could not > be opened. It may be in use by Outlook Express" and upon clicking OK I get > "No message 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." > When I click properties on the different folders some are 1.2mb, some 850kb, > and so on. So the messages must be there, not just folders. I have renamed > the folders in an effort to open them but to no avail. > Can you help? > Jenny > > > > > > > ==== OUTLOOK-EXPRESS Mailing List ==== > To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >