Comments on: Outlook Express to Apple Mail (.dbx convert .mbox)

By: Darren Cornwell

Darren Cornwell — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:11:54 +0000

Ah, the link is dead: Try these…

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/DbxConv-Download-149093.html

By: Darren Cornwell

Darren Cornwell — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:10:39 +0000

@Hector, you need to

a) Be in the right directory (read the post, point 1)
b) It’s easier if you just copy the dbxconv.exe into the correct directory.
c) run the command

*Bear in mind you need to download dbxconv, the link is also in the post ;)

Good luck.

By: Hector

Hector — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:42:43 +0000

Did you find a solution? I’m trying this for the first time. I access the DOS prompt, locte the folder where I have my .dbx files as well as the DbxConv application (i.e. c:\email) My DOS prompt looks like this:

C:\Email>

I type the command dbxconv *.dbx and I get: Bad command or file name. All fiels in the folder are still .dbx

Thanks much

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:33:59 +0000

I can’t get this to work. I downloaded the dbxconv.exe and put it in the same folder as the dbx files. I then click Run…and type dbxconv *.dbx. I then need to navigate the “run” command to the folder containing my dbx files and dbxconv. I click on the dbxcon.exe and it populates the run window. I press enter….an execution window opens quickly looking like it’s doing something…then closes…..and all of my dbx files are still dbx, not mbox. help?

By: Peggy

Peggy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:24:02 +0000

Great, got it working. Thx!

By: zlatan24

zlatan24 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:59:52 +0000

I heard about not bad application-open dbx file, tool that allows the user to recover lost messages from corrupted Outlook Express folders,extracts and saves the user's messages from files with the dbx extension that Outlook Express uses to store folders, messages and news on the local disk,can be used to reindex large *.dbx files, which helps Outlook Express to start working normally again.

By: darren

darren — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:14 +0000

Glad you got it working.

By: OddyOh

OddyOh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:35 +0000

Ah, figured it out…just run:

dbxconv *.dbx

Now I’ve got all the .mbx files, and have imported them into Apple Mail…sweet!

By: OddyOh

OddyOh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:19:39 +0000

When I tried this, all I got was one file named “extmbox”, it says it’s an _auto_file. Apple Mail can import it, but it looks like it’s only one of my Outlook Express folders.