Excessive crossposting eliminated.

Tools Options Maintenance Store folder will reveal the location of
your current Identity's store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain). Write it down.

In WinXP, Win2K and Win2K03, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show
Hidden Files and Folders under Start Control Panel Folder Options
View.

In Windows Explorer, search for .DBX files. Any found which are not located
in your current store will most likely be those from your OE5 Identity. You
can Import them using FileImportMessages....

Mail Folders, Address Book, Messages Missing After Upgrade to XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;q313055
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

RP wrote:
I recently upgraded from Win98SE to XP-Home Edition. (w/ IE 6 OE 6)

The upgrade went pretty flawlessly. However, when I went to Outlook
Express, it looks like a new install. No Message and No Email accounts
listed.

I can easily reinstall the email accounts....but I can't seem to find the
past messages.

I searched all my drives for any .dbx files (I assume the old messages
are
contained somewhere in a .dbx file, right?) I couldn't find anything.

While this may be a blessing in disguise by doing away with the tons of
old
messages....I would like to be able to review some of them from time to
time, and would like them back.

Is it possible the upgrade erased them all?

IS it possible the upgrade changed the extension from .dbx? Is that why
my
search is fruitless?

Is it possible they are still retrievable?