A long time ago I learned not to fix something that's not broken....but
sometimes I just can't control myself. I have two users (myself and my
wife). We share one Hotmail (free) account. Doing a Property check on her
OE6 folders shows them to be located under her Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}. Well, in reality, her .dbx files are not there,
they're located under MY Local Settings (with a different GUID). When I do a
Switch Identities from My account, it shows empty folders (It's obviously
going to the GUID under her Local Settings), but if I switch users and open
her OE, the folders are populated correctly.
Questions: Does anybody understand this behavior, and if so, would they
explain it to me? Does anybody see any reason that I should *improve* my
current situation, which is giving me no apparent problems? If so, how? Any
other comments appreciated.

Are you attempting to access her message store folder containing mail that
is "keyed" to her GUID? It sounds like it. The only way that would work is
if you both used the same GUID which would preclude using another identity.

Each identity has its own GUID to identify it in the registry and all DBX
files for that GUID are only readable while working in that identity.
Switch to another and the mail is gone. That's the way it's supposed to
work. The same thing applies to Contacts stored in the Windows Address
Book.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

"Larry" wrote in message
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A long time ago I learned not to fix something that's not broken....but
sometimes I just can't control myself. I have two users (myself and my
wife). We share one Hotmail (free) account. Doing a Property check on her
OE6 folders shows them to be located under her Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}. Well, in reality, her .dbx files are not there,
they're located under MY Local Settings (with a different GUID). When I do
a Switch Identities from My account, it shows empty folders (It's obviously
going to the GUID under her Local Settings), but if I switch users and open
her OE, the folders are populated correctly.
Questions: Does anybody understand this behavior, and if so, would they
explain it to me? Does anybody see any reason that I should *improve* my
current situation, which is giving me no apparent problems? If so, how?
Any other comments appreciated.

Switching users at the Windows level is different than switching
identities within OE.

OE Identities are intended when several people want to share Outlook
Express within a single Windows logon or one person wants to separate
some of their mail such as personal verses Work.

Each Windows logon has separate user sections of the registry. You
can't access another's user's section of the registry unless you logon
to Windows as that user.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Larry" wrote in message
...
A long time ago I learned not to fix something that's not broken....but
sometimes I just can't control myself. I have two users (myself and my
wife). We share one Hotmail (free) account. Doing a Property check on
her OE6 folders shows them to be located under her Local
Settings\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}. Well, in reality, her .dbx
files are not there, they're located under MY Local Settings (with a
different GUID). When I do a Switch Identities from My account, it
shows empty folders (It's obviously going to the GUID under her Local
Settings), but if I switch users and open her OE, the folders are
populated correctly.
Questions: Does anybody understand this behavior, and if so, would
they explain it to me? Does anybody see any reason that I should
*improve* my current situation, which is giving me no apparent
problems? If so, how? Any other comments appreciated.

I don't understand everything you said, but I'll work on it. Thank you.

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Are you attempting to access her message store folder containing mail that
is "keyed" to her GUID? It sounds like it. The only way that would work
is if you both used the same GUID which would preclude using another
identity.

Each identity has its own GUID to identify it in the registry and all DBX
files for that GUID are only readable while working in that identity.
Switch to another and the mail is gone. That's the way it's supposed to
work. The same thing applies to Contacts stored in the Windows Address
Book.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.

"Larry" wrote in message
...
A long time ago I learned not to fix something that's not broken....but
sometimes I just can't control myself. I have two users (myself and my
wife). We share one Hotmail (free) account. Doing a Property check on her
OE6 folders shows them to be located under her Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}. Well, in reality, her .dbx files are not there,
they're located under MY Local Settings (with a different GUID). When I do
a Switch Identities from My account, it shows empty folders (It's
obviously going to the GUID under her Local Settings), but if I switch
users and open her OE, the folders are populated correctly.
Questions: Does anybody understand this behavior, and if so, would they
explain it to me? Does anybody see any reason that I should *improve* my
current situation, which is giving me no apparent problems? If so, how?
Any other comments appreciated.

Thank you Michael.

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Switching users at the Windows level is different than switching
identities within OE.

OE Identities are intended when several people want to share Outlook
Express within a single Windows logon or one person wants to separate some
of their mail such as personal verses Work.

Each Windows logon has separate user sections of the registry. You can't
access another's user's section of the registry unless you logon to
Windows as that user.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Larry" wrote in message
...
A long time ago I learned not to fix something that's not broken....but
sometimes I just can't control myself. I have two users (myself and my
wife). We share one Hotmail (free) account. Doing a Property check on her
OE6 folders shows them to be located under her Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}. Well, in reality, her .dbx files are not there,
they're located under MY Local Settings (with a different GUID). When I do
a Switch Identities from My account, it shows empty folders (It's
obviously going to the GUID under her Local Settings), but if I switch
users and open her OE, the folders are populated correctly.
Questions: Does anybody understand this behavior, and if so, would they
explain it to me? Does anybody see any reason that I should *improve* my
current situation, which is giving me no apparent problems? If so, how?
Any other comments appreciated.