"Andrew Wan" wrote in message
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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?



No - it's because the mail counters for both apps are held in the registry,
which of course is completely fresh after the re-install, NOT in the
respective data stores. Whether you can find, export and re-import those
registry keys I don't know...