Importing Old MS Outlook Email Information, Help!

[tomwalsh]

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone of you experts know the solution to this.

In 2003 my computer system completely crashed and I had to reformat everything.   I had a very large file (outlook.txt) saved which contained all my emails.  

When I began anew I migrated to Outlook Express 6.  I can't for the life of me figure out how to import my old emails from a previous version of Outlook, all I have is this text file.

I tried reading the text file in Wordpad, importing it (nothing shows up) and/or converting it, nothing works.

Would appreciate any help, this is years of information down the drain.

[pcwizard]

did you create the text file yourself with the emails or did you choose to save the emails in a text format?

You can go to File> Import and Export> Import from another program or file> and then select the file type it's saved as.
It's usually .pst format for Outlook or .dbx if its Outlook Express but it really depends on how you saved it first.