[gui-talk] Outlook Express files

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Hi Evelyn --
The advantage of using eBackup to back up OE is that it will not only 
preserve your message folders, but also the account information, multiple 
identities if you have them, address book, and all your mail options.
You would have to reconstruct all that if you just copied the message files 
and nothing else. I don't know where eBackup finds the information, but it 
works. I have used it twice to move from one pc to another.
Let me know if you want me to send them. I have the last release before they 
stopped supporting it.  You can also get it from jfwlite.com if that site is 
still active.
Good luck.  Aren't computers a pain???
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evelyn Weckerly" <weckerly at i2k.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Outlook Express files


Hi, Laura,

Actually, I only want to get those data files, nothing else. My
desktop is in crisis. At this point, I don't know whether it needs a
new power supply or worse. I may have to move those files to another
computer but not all of Outlook Express. I would be moving them from
one XP machine to another.

At 12:17 PM 9/16/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Evelyn...
>They are in a hidden directory at
>C:\documents and settings\loginName\local settings\application
>data\identities\encryptedName\Microsoft\outlook express
>
>You can unhide these directories in the folder options.  You can also get
>this long folder name by going to tools/options in outlook express to the
>maintenance tab and click on storage folder.  OE even lets you change this
>folder to something else, if you want to keep your dbx mail files in a
>different place.
>
>Anyway, unless you have a tool to scan or extract things from dbx files, OE
>is the only way to open and use them. However you do need to copy them for
>backups. If you do this be sure to copy all of them as some files there
>contain state information.
>
>Another way to backup OE is to use the now obsolete eBackup utility.  If it
>is no longer available on the net, let me know and I'll send it to you.  It
>also has some jaws scripts, which help but don't work very well.
>Cheers.
>--le
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Evelyn Weckerly" <weckerly at i2k.com>
>To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:05 AM
>Subject: [gui-talk] Outlook Express files
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Exactly where does Outlook Express store its mailboxes. I need to
>copy the main inbox and its table of contents file. Thanks.
>
>Evelyn
>
>
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