How to Restore Your Outlook Express Backup

A Backup Article Contributed by Daniel Jones

Restore Your Manual Backup of Outlook Express

Assuming you've followed the steps in my article on How to Backup your Outlook Express, You should have a folder on your desktop called Mail Backup that contains the various files we will need to restore your backup e-mail messages, accounts, and news group accounts to Outlook Express. Obviously in the real world, saving your Outlook Express data to your desktop is not an effective means of backing it up. From there we would burn a copy of this folder onto a CD or save it on a ZIP drive, etc...

Restore the Backup of Your Outlook Express e-Mails

1. From the File menu click Import > Messages.

2. In Select an e-mail program to import from box, choose Microsoft Outlook Express 5 or Microsoft Outlook Express 6, then click Next.

3. Select Import mail from an OE5 store directory or Import mail from an OE6 store directory > OK.

4. Choose Browse, and then select the Mail Backup folder on your desktop.

5. Choose OK > Next > All folders > Next > Finish.

Restore the Backup of Your Outlook Express Mail Account

1. Go to the Tools menu > Accounts > Mail tab > Import.

2. Use the Look In box and locate the Mail Backup folder on your desktop.

3. Select the mail account that you wish to import, and then use the Open button.

4. Repeat these steps for each mail account that you need to import.

5. Click Close.

Restore the Backup of Your Outlook Express Newsgroup Account

Go to the Tools menu > Accounts > News tab > Import.

Use the Look In box to locate the Mail Backup folder on your desktop.

Select the news account that you wish to import, and then use the Open button.

Repeat these steps for each news account that you need to import.

Click Close.