Hi Robear,

Thanks for the url.

I had another thought on this subject. Rather than have to buy and install a
utility that I would use very rarely - how about this.

XP has a small group of folders that it installs. These are the Inbox, Sent,
etc..

I'd guess that counting subfolders, I must have another 60-70 that I created
outside of the default OE folders.

My question is -

Suppose I went into the store folder where all my mail dbx files are
located. If I deleted them all, would this get XP/OE upset? Or, would it
just recreate the "standard" folders that OE wants to see, the next time it
was loaded, of course, with no messages anywhere?

Then if I imported all the dbx files from the backup of my main machine on
an external USB drive, I would have everything all properly set up, with no
duplicates. If deleting the "mandatory" OE folders and subfolders did upset
OE, I know I could just delete all those which I created, and then import
only them.

Does this seem like reasonable approach?

Ron Hirsch

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"PA Bear" wrote in message
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No, but there are some utilities out there that can find and delete the
dupes; e.g., http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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Ron Hirsch wrote:
One of my standard practises is to back up lots of items on my main
computer, using a script program to do so. One of the places I backup to
is
an external USB drive. I then move that drive around to other machines,
and
use a script to update all kinds of files et al, onto the other machines.

I also like to then import all the mail groups and messages from OE onto
the
other machines, and I can do that by using the import command. But, one
problem in doing that is that the import duplicates messages into folders,
where that message may have already been resident. The only workaround I
see
is to delete all messsages from the target machine, before I import. but
that's PITA.

Unlike regular files, when a file is copied into a folder, if it already
exists there, Windows will not copy a second file with the same name, as
that cannot exist in Windows. It will update the file, or whatever the
user
chooses.

Is there any way around stopping identical messages from being imported
into
OE?

Ron Hirsch