On 18/04/2008 01:32, NoOp wrote:
On 04/17/2008 09:41 AM, Bud Oliver wrote:
I do hope that I am doing this correctly. I had a reply from NoOp as well
with about the same info as Twayne and I thank them both. I will go into
the situation in as much detail as I can but will not know all of the proper
terminology.
After installing OOo2.4 which replaced 2.3, I noticed that the icon on my
saved emails had changed to the OOo Writer icon but the icon was not as
sharp. When I tried to open a saved email a ASCII Filter Options opened,
Character set is Western Europe, clicking OK opens a Writer document with
many pages of letters and numbers (a short email message come out as four
pages)
Again, no clue as to OE as I've never used it. However, it appears that
OE 5 and above use .dbx file format. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Express
Some of these may, or may not help:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069/en-us
http://www.mailnavigator.com/read_outlook_express_dbx_files.html
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Good luck.
Once you do get that sorted out, it would be interesting to find out
why/how your OE messages became associated with OOo in the first place.
What is the file extension on the messages that you are trying to open?
If you *save* a message from Outlook Express (OE) you get a file with a
.eml extension; OE uses the .dbx extension for its *folders* - files
containing several messages which have been "filed" within OE's own
filing system.
But I don't begin to understand how either of those extensions could
have become associated to OpenOffice. It certainly isn't part of the OOo
installation procedure.
Also, if you double click on a .eml file, that file opens in OE - always
assuming the file associations are "correct".
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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