Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my IE6
stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files- several
were there including one for each of several old email addresses and one set
up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly formatted
hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't work. So,
I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old identities
into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for the newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and on
that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that currently
at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a new
identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in the new
identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in the new
identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of newsgroups?
It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a time, but I had
subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe

Newsgroups neither import nor export. Sorry, but the developers at
Microsoft consider the information in those newsgroups to be of short
duration use or value and have never listened to any request to have them
available for import/export.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Joe" wrote in message
...
Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my
IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files-
several were there including one for each of several old email addresses
and one set up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly formatted
hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't work.
So, I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old
identities into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for the
newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and on
that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that
currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a
new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in
the new identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in
the new identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a
time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe

Actually, I don't care about the messages in those folders- if there are
any, what I'm interested in is simply not having to resubscribe to several
dozen newsgroups- I'm not saving the messages- if only MS could allow the
list of subscribed newsgroups- then, of course, we'd need to enter each
group as if for the first time, then do a "catch up" to get back to where we
want to be.

Joe


"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
...
Newsgroups neither import nor export. Sorry, but the developers at
Microsoft consider the information in those newsgroups to be of short
duration use or value and have never listened to any request to have them
available for import/export.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.


"Joe" wrote in message
...
Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my
IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files-
several were there including one for each of several old email addresses
and one set up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly formatted
hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't work.
So, I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old
identities into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for
the newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and on
that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that
currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a
new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in
the new identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in
the new identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a
time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe

In OE, Tools, Accounts, News, Export.
In the new OE, Tools, Accounts, News, Import.
This gets the subscribed newsgroups to the new OE.
You have to export and import for each Identity.

You could export the Registry keys as described in
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
--
Ronald Sommer

"Joe" wrote in message
...
: Actually, I don't care about the messages in those folders- if there are
: any, what I'm interested in is simply not having to resubscribe to several
: dozen newsgroups- I'm not saving the messages- if only MS could allow the
: list of subscribed newsgroups- then, of course, we'd need to enter each
: group as if for the first time, then do a "catch up" to get back to where
we
: want to be.
:
: Joe
:
:
: "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
: ...
: Newsgroups neither import nor export. Sorry, but the developers at
: Microsoft consider the information in those newsgroups to be of short
: duration use or value and have never listened to any request to have
them
: available for import/export.
: --
: Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
: Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
:
:
: "Joe" wrote in message
: ...
: Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my
: IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files-
: several were there including one for each of several old email
addresses
: and one set up just for newsgroups.
:
: At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly
formatted
: hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't
work.
: So, I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old
: identities into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for
: the newsgroups.
:
: I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and
on
: that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that
: currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.
:
: So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a
: new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in
: the new identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in
: the new identity.
:
: At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
: newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a
: time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.
:
: Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.
:
: Joe
:
:
:
:

Ron

What does File, Import, News Account Settings do? Not something I have
tried but the next paragraph comes from help. It is probably just
another way to access the option in Tools, Accounts etc.

Newsgroup account settings: From an existing e-mail account. When you
import your newsroup account settings into Outlook Express, your
subscription records and other data, such as which messages you've
seen, is placed into your Outlook Express newsgroup account. You can
immediately pick up reading your newsgroups.

Do you need to Export? With messages you just import.

I am wondering what this phrase "such as which messages you've seen"
means? It seems to contradict what Jim Pickering said earlier in this
thread. Until I read this note in Help I believed what Jim said to be
true. I might test during the coming week.

--

Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

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



Ron Sommer wrote:
In OE, Tools, Accounts, News, Export.
In the new OE, Tools, Accounts, News, Import.
This gets the subscribed newsgroups to the new OE.
You have to export and import for each Identity.

You could export the Registry keys as described in
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/


"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
...
Newsgroups neither import nor export. Sorry, but the developers
at
Microsoft consider the information in those newsgroups to be of
short duration use or value and have never listened to any request
to have them available for import/export.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.

Joe

Move the messages in each newsgroup folder to a user created Local
Folder and you will then be able to use Import.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

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


"Joe" wrote in message
...
Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup
my IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity
files- several were there including one for each of several old
email addresses and one set up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly
formatted hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but
that didn't work. So, I created new identities, then copied all the
files in the old identities into the new identity's folder. This
worked fine accept for the newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago
and on that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see
that currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity
into a new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't
be seen in the new identify, then they vanish from the window
showing the files in the new identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one
at a time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe

"Joe" wrote in message
...
Well, I should have paid more attention to a proper method to backup my
IE6 stuff. I did in fact save the store folders in the identity files-
several were there including one for each of several old email addresses
and one set up just for newsgroups.

At first I thought I could just drop them all into the freshly formatted
hard drive's location for the identities for IE 6- but that didn't work.
So, I created new identities, then copied all the files in the old
identities into the new identity's folder. This worked fine accept for the
newsgroups.

I had printed out http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ some months ago and on
that print out I see that newsgroups can't be imported. I see that
currently at that URL, a new clone method is available.

So, yuh, when I tried copying newsgroup files from that identity into a
new identify, the appeared to copy over, at first, but can't be seen in
the new identify, then they vanish from the window showing the files in
the new identity.

At this point, is there any easy way to restore my long list of
newsgroups? It's not that big a deal, I can simply resubscribe one at a
time, but I had subscribed to several dozen.

Thanks to Tom Koch for his web site.

Joe