"Gordon" wrote in message
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"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.

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...

Mail counters are not held in the Registry for OE. For POP3 mail OE keeps
its record in Pop3uidl.dbx

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.