I managed to get everything working last night but this morning I am in a
bit of a bind.
Yes, I was referring to user profiles. I have two XP user accounts, Home
and User. Each account has one identity in OE.
I did copy each identities' message store to C: as a separate folder. After
installing a new hd and reloading XP I restored the message stores and had
OE point to those locations. Eveyrthing was ok last night under both user
accounts and each identity. However today when I go into my Home account
(non-admin, limited acct) OE comes up with an error "OE could not be
started. The application was unable to open the OE message store. Your
computer may be out of memory or your disk is full". Here is the error
code: 0x800C012E,5. After pressing OK on that dialog box another comes up
stating "OE could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be initialized".

Any ideas? It is only on my Home user account, my User user account works
fine.

Thanks,
Walter

"DGuess" wrote in message
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"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.