Ron,
Thanks, I have opened a folder on my desktop in anticipation of moving all
the dbx files/foders to it by copy and paste, or, drag and drop?
I presume I can then import these into OE and new identity. From there I
can examine each, tediously, to determine what I want to keep or delete?
Any pitfalls please?
The new ISP was late sending their CD and installation instructions; I was
cut off from the old and connected to the new before I knew it. Efficiency!
These things happen even in the best of circles as I have found with doing a
reinstall of Win XP on my daughter's machine and using the OEM's WinXP CD -
it is not all that easy or straightforward using the support staff of the
OEM of the computer or software.
Regards, brett.
"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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Tech Support should read there own help files.
It is crazy to delete the old Identities.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/help/
Clicking email, then Setting up Outlook Express shows how to add an email
account.
Deleting Identities does not delete the Identities emails.
In OE, Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder button will show the
location of the current Identity's storage files.
Go up a folder should show the other Identities Store Folders.
If the folders are there, you can import the messages into the current
Identity.
--
Ronald Sommer
"brett" wrote in message
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Ron,
Essentially, I was talked through setting up the new connection to a new
ISP by phone and followed instructions from the Technical Support
department.
a. Why did changing ISPs require a new OE Identity? Sorry I do not know.
The new connection was set up and in the process a new identity was
introduced.
b. Why didn't you add the ISP to the old OE Identity? I did not know I
could.
c. Can you switch to your old OE Identities? No. They were deleted in
the process of setting up the new connection.
brett
"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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Why did changing ISPs require a new OE Identity?
Why didn't you add the ISP to the old OE Identity?
Can you switch to your old OE Identities?
--
Ronald Sommer
"brett" wrote in message
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Just seen these very useful replies which are near to my problem.
Have just changed ISP and therefore have setup a new identity for
emails in OE 6. In the process of setting up with wizard I have 'lost'
my email folders from before. This muddle has resulted from setting up
several identities with my old ISP, I cannot remember how this occurred
(senior moments come quickly with age). Now, after doing a search for
dbx files I can find a very long list of all the folders. There are
some folders duplicated each with its own asociated different
identities and I wish to import the folders into my OE under my new
identity. How can I see which ones I need; one way seems to be by
inspection and only selecting by recent dates, say all afetr 1 Feb 08
and copying these into a 'store' folder on desktop and then importing
into OE under my new identity?
There are bound to be some duplicate emails lurking and I should prefer
not to lose anything.
Is there a simple and relative easy answer please with minimum hassle?
Most grateful for advice please.
I think I now know not to mess with identities.
regards, brett.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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If you'd told us these details in the first post, we could've save you
some time:
Mail Folders, Address Book, Messages Missing After Upgrade to XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055
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Tools Options Maintenance Store folder will reveal the location
of your current Identity's store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain). Write it down.
In WinXP, Win2K and Win2K03, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by
default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must
enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start Control Panel
Folder Options View (cf.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial62.html).
In Windows Explorer, search for .DBX files. Any found which are not
located in your current store will most likely be those from your OE5
Identity. You can import this data using File Import Messages
(select) OE6 (select) From a store directory Point the import
wizard to the old identity's store location.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
nick wrote:
Thanks to all for all the tips. I finally
figgered it all out.
Prob was going from a 98SE file structure to an
XP file structure. Just had to know what file types
to look for. Has anyone else noticed that explorer
(file list) does not let you sort by file type
(what used to be called extension)??
Just had to find the files in the 98SE structure
(all under C:/windows ...) and move them to
the XP structure (c:/documenrts and settings ...).
All works well...thanks