You can relocate the dbx files via Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store
Folder. Make sure the destination directory exists before you designate it,
as otherwise OE will destroy the messages.

You also might take a look at OEQB: www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/

steve

"Jackanory" wrote in message
o.uk...
Thanks Steve. Incidentally have a look at my response to Ron. I am toying
with the idea of getting my OE6 to save its stuff into 'My Documents'. IF
it works then I can use my xcopy command at the DOS prompt to save all My
Documents AS WELL AS the .dbx files in one go. But can OE6 cope with this
or do the OE6 .dbx files have to be either in their default locations or
either in My Computer or Windows Explorer (as suggested by Ron) for OE6 to
work? Why oh why are the .dbx files so well hidden away by default?!

If memory serves me right, I think once I did a search for the .dbx files,
copied them and then successfully imported them. Though while importing
the old .dbx files from the copies made as backups one or two very recent
emails were overwritten in the process. If memory serves me right, I did
this for a friend while updating from Windows ME to Windows XP after
reformatting the hard disk for a clean installation and changing the
formatting from FAT32 to NTFS. 'My Documents' were a breeze to put back on
and though I had copies of the .dbx files, I didn't bother to import the
.dbx files immediately. In the meantime my friend had received and sent a
few emails Nothing important but those few days' emails were lost in the
process of importing the old .dbx files when the existing small .dbx files
were overwritten. And THIS is what I am trying to avoid this time as there
is a lot of important communication on both computers.

Don't worry, I have had a hard drive die down on me and I know what
happens. I did lose a couple of months' work then. We never learn to back
up at least once weekly, do we? I now use a 2.5" external hard disk with a
USB connection for backing up without the need for an external power
supply. Much easier than looking for the damned power supply unit and the
2.5" drive hard disks are comparatively so small and easy to handle. Or do
you think we are getting too lazy?
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Jackanory

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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You should not have a file much over a few hundred megabytes or so, at
least one that is often active. You should also make frequent backups of
whatever you consider important, as your hard drive could die or other
such things could happen and you'd lose all of it otherwise.

steve

"Jackanory" wrote in message
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Thanks Steve. I will have a careful look at those pages. In the meantime
have a look at what I wrote in response to Ron's reply. Basically I am
trying to have the different messages on the two computers (i.e. 2 lots
of identically named .dbx files MERGED into ONE .dbx file. And this I
will have to do for around 30 persons I correspond with. Remember also
that I drag MY sent messages to these sub-folders of the Inbox main
folder so that I have a seamless record of my correspondence with these
people going over a period extending back beyond 2 years.

One of these days I am going to reach the limit of what OE6 can keep
track of, I am sure!!!! But my system DOES come in very handy when I
need to go back and see what the correspondence said say 6 months or a
year ago. I gave up having rules to automatically sort out and
distribute my Incoming Mail to the various subfolders around a year ago.
I now prefer ALL my correspondence to land in my Inbox from where I drag
and drop it to the individual's subfolder together with my reply from
the Sent folder once I have replied to it.

What is the limit of messages OE6 can cope with, if you know? I remember
reading somewhere that there IS a limit to the number of messages OE6
can deal with. Or am I wrong?
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Jackanory

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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Use File | Import | Messages in OE and don't try and do it manually.

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve

"Jackanory" wrote in message
o.uk...
Problem
For some months I had to use another computer for my emails. Now I am
back to my usual computer and would like to import my .dbx files from
my other computer to my main computer BUT without overwriting my
existing .dbx files so that I have continuity. Is this possible and
how?

I DO have rather a complex setup with folders and subfolders for some
20 to 30 persons etc I correspond with where I drag and drop all
incoming as well as sent mail so I can go to any folder and have a
full history of my correspondence with that person.

Somehow I don't think this will be possible but one never knows.
Anybody out there with clever ideas? If I export my .dbx files from my
other computer and import them to my mainstay computer, the existing
.dbx files on my main computer will be overwritten for sure.

Why are email files lumped all into .dbx files instead of being saved
individually like word documents etc anyway?

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Jackanory