# MS Outlook Express message folder location **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-express-message-folder-location/282924 "2005-01-04T00:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-express-message-folder-location/282924/1 "2005-01-04T00:37:13Z")
Had old computer. Said computer died. Got new computer and usb HD enclosure. Now I can access old HD. Problem is, is that I would like to access my old email that is stored on the old HD. Old system was OE6 on Win98 2nd ED. New system is WinXP OE6 I tried to import them but I can’t find the message files, nor any pst files. Anyone have any idea? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-express-message-folder-location/282924/2 "2005-01-04T00:50:39Z")
You’re looking for a bunch of files with the extension .dbx - one for each OE folder and another called folders.dbx that is a sort of index. ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-express-message-folder-location/282924/3 "2005-01-04T01:30:51Z")
Thanks, and I got them, but in a more roundabout fasion. I was able to boot from my old drive via USB. Slow, but I was able to track them down. Then I rebooted and imported them.