"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Shaz"

| Hi
|
| I have two hard drives on my computer and was wanting to keep purely
| programs on one and data on the other.
|
| Is it possible to install outlook express on drive A, but have the
emails
| saved on drive b?
|
| Many thanks
| Shaz

Expressing this as "...outlook express on drive A, but have the emails
saved on drive b?"
Is NOT good. Drive A and and B are floppies so the use of this
nomenclature will cause
confusion.

What you are asking is...

"...Outlook Express on drive "C:", but have the emails saved on drive "D:"
?"
The answer is YES.

By defaultt and design, Outlook Express (OE) resides in...
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express"

What you want is the data directory to be on drive "D:" (or other hard
disk or partition).

Create a folder on Drive "D:" such as OE-Data ( D:\OE-Data )

Go to; Tools -- Options -- maintenance -- store folder -- change

Browse to; D:\OE-Data

BTW: This is exactly what I do on my computers.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change. If you
click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change and tell it to
change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created D:\OE-Data then you
will lose all saved messages.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

Frank

"Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change. If you
click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change and tell it to
change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created D:\OE-Data then you
will lose all saved messages."

so if I have already had outlook express running on drive c (for Davids
sake!), so have all my emails on that drive, if I create a new
directory....it will automatically move my previous emails across?? Am I
understanding this correctly?

Shaz

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Shaz"

| Hi
|
| I have two hard drives on my computer and was wanting to keep purely
| programs on one and data on the other.
|
| Is it possible to install outlook express on drive A, but have the
emails
| saved on drive b?
|
| Many thanks
| Shaz

Expressing this as "...outlook express on drive A, but have the emails
saved on drive b?"
Is NOT good. Drive A and and B are floppies so the use of this
nomenclature will cause
confusion.

What you are asking is...

"...Outlook Express on drive "C:", but have the emails saved on drive "D:"
?"
The answer is YES.

By defaultt and design, Outlook Express (OE) resides in...
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express"

What you want is the data directory to be on drive "D:" (or other hard
disk or partition).

Create a folder on Drive "D:" such as OE-Data ( D:\OE-Data )

Go to; Tools -- Options -- maintenance -- store folder -- change

Browse to; D:\OE-Data

BTW: This is exactly what I do on my computers.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change. If you
click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change and tell it to
change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created D:\OE-Data then you
will lose all saved messages.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to bring them
across to OE once my computer is up and running?

"Shaz" wrote:

Frank

"Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change. If you
click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change and tell it to
change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created D:\OE-Data then you
will lose all saved messages."

so if I have already had outlook express running on drive c (for Davids
sake!), so have all my emails on that drive, if I create a new
directory....it will automatically move my previous emails across?? Am I
understanding this correctly?

Shaz

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "Shaz"

| Hi
|
| I have two hard drives on my computer and was wanting to keep purely
| programs on one and data on the other.
|
| Is it possible to install outlook express on drive A, but have the
emails
| saved on drive b?
|
| Many thanks
| Shaz

Expressing this as "...outlook express on drive A, but have the emails
saved on drive b?"
Is NOT good. Drive A and and B are floppies so the use of this
nomenclature will cause
confusion.

What you are asking is...

"...Outlook Express on drive "C:", but have the emails saved on drive "D:"
?"
The answer is YES.

By defaultt and design, Outlook Express (OE) resides in...
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express"

What you want is the data directory to be on drive "D:" (or other hard
disk or partition).

Create a folder on Drive "D:" such as OE-Data ( D:\OE-Data )

Go to; Tools -- Options -- maintenance -- store folder -- change

Browse to; D:\OE-Data

BTW: This is exactly what I do on my computers.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change. If you
click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change and tell it to
change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created D:\OE-Data then you
will lose all saved messages.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

From: "Shaz"

| also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to bring them
| across to OE once my computer is up and running?
|

I assume you mean format drive "C:" and reinstall the OS on drive "C:"

The information on the OE account and the location of the OE data is stored in the User's
Registry.

Such as...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities

Therefore you need to make sure the user's Registry is backed up.

"C:\Documents and Settings\USER_ACCOUNT\NTUSER.DAT"

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Shaz"

also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to
bring them across to OE once my computer is up and running?

I assume you mean format drive "C:" and reinstall the OS on drive "C:"

The information on the OE account and the location of the OE data is
stored in the User's Registry.

Such as...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities

Therefore you need to make sure the user's Registry is backed up.

"C:\Documents and Settings\USER_ACCOUNT\NTUSER.DAT"

I think that's needlessly complex as one can Export Internet Accounts.

The Export (and Import) function for Accounts is just not in the main
Export and Import submenu (in the File menu), but in the Accounts...
submenu (in the Tools menu). (It's a little strange that File-Import
allows to Import non-OE accounts, but not OE ones and File-Export has
no selection for exporting accounts. But I guess there's GUIs and
there's consistency and one doesn't neccessarily imply the other! :-))

From: "Frank Slootweg"

| [Please use the standard "" quote character.]
|
| David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Shaz"

also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to
bring them across to OE once my computer is up and running?

I assume you mean format drive "C:" and reinstall the OS on drive "C:"

The information on the OE account and the location of the OE data is
stored in the User's Registry.

Such as...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities

Therefore you need to make sure the user's Registry is backed up.

"C:\Documents and Settings\USER_ACCOUNT\NTUSER.DAT"
|
| I think that's needlessly complex as one can Export Internet Accounts.
|
| The Export (and Import) function for Accounts is just not in the main
| Export and Import submenu (in the File menu), but in the Accounts...
| submenu (in the Tools menu). (It's a little strange that File-Import
| allows to Import non-OE accounts, but not OE ones and File-Export has
| no selection for exporting accounts. But I guess there's GUIs and
| there's consistency and one doesn't neccessarily imply the other! :-))

The Registry has ALL the information. While it is the more complex, it is the most exact in
making the Restored system the same as the flattened system.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Frank Slootweg"

| [Please use the standard "" quote character.]
|
| David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Shaz"

also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to
bring them across to OE once my computer is up and running?

I assume you mean format drive "C:" and reinstall the OS on drive "C:"

The information on the OE account and the location of the OE data is
stored in the User's Registry.

Such as...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities

Therefore you need to make sure the user's Registry is backed up.

"C:\Documents and Settings\USER_ACCOUNT\NTUSER.DAT"
|
| I think that's needlessly complex as one can Export Internet Accounts.
|
| The Export (and Import) function for Accounts is just not in the main
| Export and Import submenu (in the File menu), but in the Accounts...
| submenu (in the Tools menu). (It's a little strange that File-Import
| allows to Import non-OE accounts, but not OE ones and File-Export has
| no selection for exporting accounts. But I guess there's GUIs and
| there's consistency and one doesn't neccessarily imply the other! :-))

The Registry has ALL the information. While it is the more complex,
it is the most exact in making the Restored system the same as the
flattened system.

True, but one will most likely have to *selectively* restore (parts
of) the Registry, because it's unlikely that the re-installed (not
restored) system will have the exact same configuration as the flattened
system. Selectively restoring (parts of) the Registry is not something
which most users are able to do.

Just (I)MO and my EUR 0.02.

"Shaz" wrote in message
...
also, If I format my computer....what files do I save, in order to bring
them
across to OE once my computer is up and running?


Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.

Shaz wrote:
Frank

"Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change.
If you click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change
and tell it to change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created
D:\OE-Data then you will lose all saved messages."

so if I have already had outlook express running on drive c (for
Davids sake!), so have all my emails on that drive, if I create a new
directory....it will automatically move my previous emails across??
Am I understanding this correctly?

Shaz

Yes, do as Frank says. Create the folder you want to move the mail folders
to BEFORE you tell OE to change the store folder.

It would be wise to make a backup anyway before moving the folders. The
following link gives instructions for backing up whether for formatting the
hard drive or as routine manintenance. Most of those "in the know" would
make regular backups of their OE in case of problems. I do mine once a week.

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)

Kath

Another safe way is to create a new identity and import. That way you
keep
your old message folders until you have verified that the replacement is
intact.


--

Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Kath Adams" wrote in message
...
Shaz wrote:
Frank

"Be very careful that the folder exists before telling OE to change.
If you click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder | Change
and tell it to change to D:\OE-Data and you have not already created
D:\OE-Data then you will lose all saved messages."

so if I have already had outlook express running on drive c (for
Davids sake!), so have all my emails on that drive, if I create a new
directory....it will automatically move my previous emails across??
Am I understanding this correctly?

Shaz

Yes, do as Frank says. Create the folder you want to move the mail
folders to BEFORE you tell OE to change the store folder.

It would be wise to make a backup anyway before moving the folders.
The following link gives instructions for backing up whether for
formatting the hard drive or as routine manintenance. Most of those
"in the know" would make regular backups of their OE in case of
problems. I do mine once a week.

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)