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| tom61:
Thanks for the help, I figured out what JLR meant to open it in a text editor and change that text not long after I posted. Now to figure out how to get the messages moved over. You can drag and drop the emails into a folder, but any messages with duplicate titles are lost . :( Hopefully copying the .dbx files from C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{D3B...}\Microsoft\Outlook Express to the new computer will work. |
| _Iz-:
--- Quote from: tom61 on February 27, 2003, 04:48:24 pm ---Hopefully copying the .dbx files from C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{D3B...}\Microsoft\Outlook Express to the new computer will work. --- End quote --- Yeap! That's exactly the way to do it. Just run OE once first, make sure your e-mail is configured, exit and find the proper folder and replace the dbx's. |
| JLR2000:
Tom61- Yes, that's correct. What I do is I change the store folder for the Outlook Express .dbx files by going into Outlook Express and making changes here: Tools -> Options -> Maintenance->Store Folder I change it to my "Data" partition, which is drive "E" for me. I do this for 2 reasons, 1. I back up that directory nightly, and also if I have a problem with my OS, I can format C:, reload the OS, then take the fresh copy of Outlook Express, start it up, then point it to my storage folder on my "E:" drive. Outlook Express will ask "There's already storage folders there, do you want to use these?" and bingo you are back in business. The same files can be transfered to another PC and you can follow the same procedure there..... Good Luck. |
| tom61:
Cool, I got it working, thanks. |
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