I'm using Outlook Express 6 with Windows XP. I recently changed internet
email accounts and did a really bonehead move that I'm hoping I can recover
from. I removed the Identity of my old account before backing up my email
messages and need to know where the messages for that identity were stored
and how to retrieve them. I found the identities under Documents and
Settings/Identities... but not getting anywhere from that. HELP!
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Thanks!

Phew! After some more searching.. I found what I was looking for. In
Outlook Express, under Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.. I copied
the folder location to the clipboard. Then did Start, Run, and pasted the
location. The folder opened with all of the .dbx files. Then I was able to
import the messages into Outlook Express.

FYI I got the instructions from the help file (go figure! it was actuall
helpful!) on how to backup and recover ... which I passed over the first
couple of times thinking I couldn't use it because I hadn't backed them up.
But I knew they were downloading to somewhere all that time, I just couldn't
see them from a regular folder search -- I had to use Start, Run with the
file location in order to get to the files (just in case any of you end up
with this problem).

Thanks anyway.
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"MsHall" wrote:

I'm using Outlook Express 6 with Windows XP. I recently changed internet
email accounts and did a really bonehead move that I'm hoping I can recover
from. I removed the Identity of my old account before backing up my email
messages and need to know where the messages for that identity were stored
and how to retrieve them. I found the identities under Documents and
Settings/Identities... but not getting anywhere from that. HELP!
--
Thanks!

"MsHall" a écrit dans le message de news:
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I'm using Outlook Express 6 with Windows XP. I recently changed internet
email accounts and did a really bonehead move that I'm hoping I can
recover
from. I removed the Identity of my old account before backing up my email
messages and need to know where the messages for that identity were stored
and how to retrieve them. I found the identities under Documents and
Settings/Identities... but not getting anywhere from that. HELP!
--
Thanks!