Actually, I don't care about the messages in those folders- if there are
any, what I'm interested in is simply not having to resubscribe to several
dozen newsgroups- I'm not saving the messages- if only MS could allow the
list of subscribed newsgroups- then, of course, we'd need to enter each
group as if for the first time, then do a "catch up" to get back to where we
want to be.

Joe


"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
...
Newsgroups neither import nor export. Sorry, but the developers at
Microsoft consider the information in those newsgroups to be of short
duration use or value and have never listened to any request to have them
available for import/export.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Joe" wrote in message
...
Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my
IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files-
several were there including one for each of several old email addresses
and one set up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly formatted
hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't work.
So, I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old
identities into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for
the newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and on
that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that
currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a
new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in
the new identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in
the new identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a
time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe