Where does OE keep it's mail folders?

**brett[_3_]**

All went very well but tedious job. Thanks for the splendid help, all.
brett

"brett" wrote in message
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Thanks very much for your patience. I'll get down to it now and let you
know when completed.
Regards,brett.

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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You are selecting so you can copy and know the location of you current
messages.
Unless your other store folders have user created folders with
distinctive names and you remember those names, then everything will be
What a business !

Modified directions:
In OE, Tools, Options, Maintenance tab, Store Folder button, right click,
Select All, right click, copy.
Close OE.
Start, Run, right click, Paste.
OK

Close OE.

Write down part of the Store Folder location.
The first six characters after the { bracket.
Example, for \Identities\{9754006D-2A61-47BF-8B5D-097A0A6CA84C}, write
down 975400.

Start, Run, OK.
Go 'up a folder' until you get to the Identities folder.
Open one of the Identities that is not your current Store Folder.
Copy any dbx files that you want to the desktop folder.
In the desktop folder, rename inbox.dbx to a.dbx.
Rename sent items.dbx to as.dbx.
Close that store folder and got to the next.
Copy any folders that you want to the desktop folder.
Rename inbox.dbx to b.dbx.
Rename sent items.dbx to bs.dbx.
Repeat for remaining Store Folders.

Open OE. Create new folders in OE to match the dbx files in the desktop
folder.
Open each folder.
I am going to call these folders, a, as, b, bs, c, cs, d, ds, ......
Close OE.

Start, Run, OK.
Move the dbx files from the desktop folder to the current Identity's
Store
Folder.
Say yes to overwrite the a.dbx with a.dbx, etc.

This will put all of the other Identity folders in the current Identity
as separate folders.
Folders containing duplicate messages can be deleted.
--
Ronald Sommer

"brett" wrote in message
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I can get to "Select all" with a right click but I thought it would only
select all of my present (new) identity messages and not all the old
ones ?

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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Right click in the location box.
--
Ronald Sommer

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Just seen these very useful replies which are near to my problem.

Have just changed ISP and therefore have setup a new identity for emails
in OE 6. In the process of setting up with wizard I have 'lost' my email
folders from before. This muddle has resulted from setting up several
identities with my old ISP, I cannot remember how this occurred (senior
moments come quickly with age). Now, after doing a search for dbx files I
can find a very long list of all the folders. There are some folders
duplicated each with its own asociated different identities and I wish to
import the folders into my OE under my new identity. How can I see which
ones I need; one way seems to be by inspection and only selecting by
recent dates, say all afetr 1 Feb 08 and copying these into a 'store'
folder on desktop and then importing into OE under my new identity?

There are bound to be some duplicate emails lurking and I should prefer
not to lose anything.

Is there a simple and relative easy answer please with minimum hassle?
Most grateful for advice please.

I think I now know not to mess with identities.
regards, brett.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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If you'd told us these details in the first post, we could've save you
some time:

Mail Folders, Address Book, Messages Missing After Upgrade to XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055
==============================
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 (cf.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial62.html).

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 this data using File Import Messages
(select) OE6 (select) From a store directory Point the import wizard
to the old identity's store location.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

nick wrote:
Thanks to all for all the tips. I finally
figgered it all out.

Prob was going from a 98SE file structure to an
XP file structure. Just had to know what file types
to look for. Has anyone else noticed that explorer
(file list) does not let you sort by file type
(what used to be called extension)??

Just had to find the files in the 98SE structure
(all under C:/windows ...) and move them to
the XP structure (c:/documenrts and settings ...).

All works well...thanks

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