"Walter Cohen" wrote in message
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Yes, I do see a complete backup button.
Also, I did get OEQB (oeqbfull.zip) from oehelp.com however, the dialog
box title says that it is Outlook Express Freebie Backup.

I also moved the current message store as you suggested to hang off the
root. I needed to do this for both identities though as the software said
it backed up only one identity. However, are you saying that even if I
had 100 identities it would still only say that it backed up 1? What I
did was run the backup under my admin account identity, then I logged off
admin and logged into my user account and ran backup again to a different
folder. Is this not what I should have done?


When I use OEQB on this machine, I see in the status bar, 2 Identities
backed up. I have two Identities on this user profile. On the other log in
profiles, I have 2 or more as well. I wouldhave to log in to those accounts
to backup the message stores and info for those.

I think you are confusing Identities with user profiles. Each user profile
can have multiple OE Identities.

OEQB doesn't back up other user profiles that it isn't currently logged
into, only the Identities of the profile that is currently logged into.

I do have the code to do this but not the time to implement. I won't mention
the revenue stream it produces, it's invisible.


So then all I need to do is backup to CD/DVD the message store and when I
load my new OS, configure OE to point to the new message store folder and
I should be good?


Backup the message stores for each user profile to a different folder.