In the wee hour of 07:15 PM 5/9/01 -0500, mgsmith bequeathed such tales as 
these:
>Hi, all!
>
>My hard drive crashed a few days ago.  It was replaced, and I had to do a
>complete restore from the Compaq recovery disks.  I had saved all my email
>and address book on my CDRW, but now I cannot move them over to the newly
>made folders.  I am using IE 5.5 and OE 5.5, but I think the messages and
>address book must have been from an earlier version (v 5).  Is that why they
>can't be moved?  If I try to move them, OE says it cannot read the folder,
>and it says there is an error in importing the address book.
>
>Is there anything I can do??  I thought I'd covered my bases by backing up!!
>
>thanks in advance
>
>gaye

It sounds like your data is read only, hence it can't be imported.  Copy 
the folder to your hard drive and remove the read only protection form all 
contents and then import.
Peter Kaulback


I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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