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**Bruce Hagen**

You're welcome.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"John Jeffrey" wrote in message
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Thanks for a rapid and comprehensive reply. All sorted!

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder
Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

Address Book Location:
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/where.htm#findwab

See these links for everything you need to do to backup & restore
properly.

Backup & Resto

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities:
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/clone.htm

If you are transferring to another PC, and have access to a Windows XP
setup
CD, or if both computers are running Windows XP, see:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"John Jeffrey" wrote in message
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Where do I look for my folders and emails? My desktop PC has died but
the
Hard Drive is still good, so I have put it into a ‘caddy’ and connected
via
USB to my laptop. What I want to do now is to transfer my desktop’s
OE6
address book, and all my old emails in their folders, to the laptop PC;
but I
don’t know how to find them. Searching for “*.eml” does no good, so I
guess
they are held in some highly condensed form somewhere. I cannot run
OE6
from
the caddy-mounted hard drive (or can I?).