Since Outlook Express is part of Internet Explorer and not Microsoft Office,
you'd be better off posting to the Outlook Express group. They're the experts
on that e-mail client. I can't give you the exact URL to the newsgroup
because you didn't state your version of OE, but you can choose it from he

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx

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Kathleen Orland
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
http://www.howto-outlook.com/



"Andrew Wan" wrote:

I have two partitions on one hard drive. I keep usual Windows XP
installation & any program installation in C:\ whilst keeping all personal
user-created data files (eg. Word documents, MP3s, etc) in D:\.

I know by default Outlook Express stores it's mailbox files at:
C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Wan\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{1821CA13-06FB-4D5C-88C0-5907BD5FF9DD}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express
and Outlook stores it's mailbox file at:
C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Wan\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst

I used Outlook Express, Tools menu, Options, Maintenance tab, Store Folders
to Change the location of my Outlook Express mailbox files to D:\Outlook
Express\. I also did the same with Outlook by setting it up to use
D:\Outlook\outlook.pst

Everything is fine until I decide to format my C:\ and clean-install Windows
XP again. I then setup Outlook Express to use D:\Outlook Express\ folder and
it says it detected existing files and prompts me if I want to use them. I
say yes. However this doesn't work and Outlook Express starts downloading
all my mail again.

I setup Outlook to point to D:\Outlook\outlook.pst and it starts download
all my mail again.


What is going on? Is this Outlook bugs?