Frank -
It seems to have something to do with my XP user account called "Home". I
originally set XP up with both user accounts being an administrator. I
allocated the message store and got OE to work fine when it was an
administrator. When I changed the user account to be a limited account
(what I really want it to be) it stopped working. I just now changed it
back to administrator and it works. If I change it back to limited then it
fails.
So I need to research why this is happening for a limited XP user account.
Might you know?
What I may try is allocate another folder in my Home account as a limited
user. Then restore/copy the original message store files into this new
folder and try it again. Perhaps the folder permissions are locked down
when in limited mode.
Thanks,
Walter
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
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From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm
Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store.
Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder (with OE closed).
Note: the DBX files are hidden in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3. You will lose
your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news servers, but
it might get you into OE.
If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx (again with OE closed). You should now get into OE. Try
importing the messages from
the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use this
tool
to extract the messages:
DBXtract ($5):
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/
Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).
The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a
folder
in an open instance of OE.
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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"Walter Cohen" wrote in message
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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.