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Looking for my Message Store
There is another way around which you /may/ find easier.
File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
Thanks, Bruce and Ron,
With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
Hi
I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is
currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
I'm sorry to say, bayskater, but I don't know what else I could recommend
without a hands-on with your machine. Not being able to find, or move the message store is something that I have never experienced. A hard install of your OS would get everything back to normal, but if you can't find and backup not only OE, but your other personal files and folders, you will end up losing things that may be important to you. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
See here to find the old messages: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
The dbx files are hidden. You have to go to Tools | Folder Options | View in Windows Explorer and enable showing hidden files. Then when you do a Search you have to do an Advanced Search and choose in the Advanced Search options to include hidden files. Then you should be able to find the old dbx files. Once you do, use File | Import | Messages and point to that directory to get the messages back. If you have trouble with those directions, then you need to get someone to help you "hands on" with your computer, as Bruce indicates. cheers, steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Thanks, Steve,
But I DO see my .dbx files, but not where they're supposed to be. My msg store is supposed to be at: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express But when I go to that Outlook Express folder (which I recently created to try to solve this problem) using Windows Explorer, I find it EMPTY My hidden files were enabled all along. I can get to the dbx files using a "Favorites" link made long ago. When I do get to the dbx files that way, the address shown in the address box is: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express However, when I use Windows Explorer and go to the Outlook Express folder in that path , it is EMPTY When I started chasing this problem, the GUID folder was empty and , of course, there were no Microsoft or Outlook Express folders. I recently created those two folders, in hopes of putting my dbx files into the OE folder and thereby to restore order to the situation. I'm tempted to use the favorites link to get to my dbx files, then "Select All" "Copy" and paste them into the Outlook Express folder that I recently created. In my vast ignorance, I'm scared to do that, aware of the old adage "When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. I appreciate your interest. Fred "Steve Cochran" wrote in message news See here to find the old messages: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 The dbx files are hidden. You have to go to Tools | Folder Options | View in Windows Explorer and enable showing hidden files. Then when you do a Search you have to do an Advanced Search and choose in the Advanced Search options to include hidden files. Then you should be able to find the old dbx files. Once you do, use File | Import | Messages and point to that directory to get the messages back. If you have trouble with those directions, then you need to get someone to help you "hands on" with your computer, as Bruce indicates. cheers, steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
Create a new Identity in OE via File | Identities. Then use File | Import |
Messages and point to the old directory of dbx files. If they don't import automatically, you can manually import them. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Steve, But I DO see my .dbx files, but not where they're supposed to be. My msg store is supposed to be at: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express But when I go to that Outlook Express folder (which I recently created to try to solve this problem) using Windows Explorer, I find it EMPTY My hidden files were enabled all along. I can get to the dbx files using a "Favorites" link made long ago. When I do get to the dbx files that way, the address shown in the address box is: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express However, when I use Windows Explorer and go to the Outlook Express folder in that path , it is EMPTY When I started chasing this problem, the GUID folder was empty and , of course, there were no Microsoft or Outlook Express folders. I recently created those two folders, in hopes of putting my dbx files into the OE folder and thereby to restore order to the situation. I'm tempted to use the favorites link to get to my dbx files, then "Select All" "Copy" and paste them into the Outlook Express folder that I recently created. In my vast ignorance, I'm scared to do that, aware of the old adage "When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. I appreciate your interest. Fred "Steve Cochran" wrote in message news See here to find the old messages: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 The dbx files are hidden. You have to go to Tools | Folder Options | View in Windows Explorer and enable showing hidden files. Then when you do a Search you have to do an Advanced Search and choose in the Advanced Search options to include hidden files. Then you should be able to find the old dbx files. Once you do, use File | Import | Messages and point to that directory to get the messages back. If you have trouble with those directions, then you need to get someone to help you "hands on" with your computer, as Bruce indicates. cheers, steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... Fred |
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Looking for my Message Store
Hi Steve,
Thanks for taking another crack at it. I had created a second directory the other day at Bruce's suggestion but doubted that I could import my dbx files, since the folder they were supposed to be in showed empty. Today I got into the new identity : and looked for my store folder C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{A8086E6F-9076-4C54-919D-6B60E79E95E4}\Microsoft\Outlook Express This path is the same as the old path except for a different GUID Fine, so far, but when using Windows explorer to find the store, the GUID folder was empty. (Same condition as the old one when I started this chase) Nevertheless, I went ahead and tried the Import . Given two choices of where to Import from: Main Identity message store, or From an OE store directory (browse) I had no confidence in browsing to a folder that Win Explorer had shown as empty, so I chose the main identity store. All of my mail folders were imported. Thinking I was home at last, I went to windows explorer to view the store in its new location in the new identity, from which I hoped to copy the Outlook Express folder and paste it onto my external HD, only to find that the new GUID folder shows as empty.(no Microsoft or Outlook Express folders) So now I have two identities and they both seem to have e-mail working ok (maybe a bit slower, now that I've doubled the volume of mail held in the folders) but still unable to get to the stores via Windows Explorer. Should I quit now? Thanks, .. Fred "Steve Cochran" wrote in message ... Create a new Identity in OE via File | Identities. Then use File | Import | Messages and point to the old directory of dbx files. If they don't import automatically, you can manually import them. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Steve, But I DO see my .dbx files, but not where they're supposed to be. My msg store is supposed to be at: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express But when I go to that Outlook Express folder (which I recently created to try to solve this problem) using Windows Explorer, I find it EMPTY My hidden files were enabled all along. I can get to the dbx files using a "Favorites" link made long ago. When I do get to the dbx files that way, the address shown in the address box is: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express However, when I use Windows Explorer and go to the Outlook Express folder in that path , it is EMPTY When I started chasing this problem, the GUID folder was empty and , of course, there were no Microsoft or Outlook Express folders. I recently created those two folders, in hopes of putting my dbx files into the OE folder and thereby to restore order to the situation. I'm tempted to use the favorites link to get to my dbx files, then "Select All" "Copy" and paste them into the Outlook Express folder that I recently created. In my vast ignorance, I'm scared to do that, aware of the old adage "When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. I appreciate your interest. Fred "Steve Cochran" wrote in message news See here to find the old messages: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 The dbx files are hidden. You have to go to Tools | Folder Options | View in Windows Explorer and enable showing hidden files. Then when you do a Search you have to do an Advanced Search and choose in the Advanced Search options to include hidden files. Then you should be able to find the old dbx files. Once you do, use File | Import | Messages and point to that directory to get the messages back. If you have trouble with those directions, then you need to get someone to help you "hands on" with your computer, as Bruce indicates. cheers, steve "bayskater" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You haven't found a home, but you know where the folder for the dbx files is currently located, correct? If you know where it is, then you should be able to move it using the technique at this link to any place you want. Even My Documents: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore Or, have you tried setting up a new identity and importing the messages as per my last reply? If you do that, then in the new identity, the path in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder should show you where the message store is located in the new identity, and most likely, it will be in Documents & Settings...........etc. -- Hi Bruce, I hadn't tried the new Identity suggestion, but I just did and have come to a snag. Where you said: File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. ^^^^^^should that be "export them into the new identity"? I didn't find the dbx files by doing a search. A while back (months?) when I was somehow at the location of the dbx files, I had made it a "Favorite". When I click on that Favorite link in IE I am taken to the page with all the dbx files. When I go to that page the address box shows the path shown below as the "old location. That would seem to indicate that the store is there, but when I look for it in Windows Explorer, the Outlook Express folder Is EMPTY. So ... it would seem that if I "Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search)" I would likely find it wasn't there. Besides that, Bruce, while i really appreciate your help, I have spent about the last hour and a half in this new identity thing and it seems like it is opening up a whole new world of complications for me. I believe I have created a new identity, but don't even know how to get into it and I think you said before that I'm going to have to move or copy my address book into it and gosh knows what other procedural steps I'll have to adapt to, just to get my message store into a folder of its own that I can find in Windows Explorer. I'm in over my head, I'm afraid. I don't think I've made anything worse (yet), but sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor" So I think I'm going to drop this project. I was trying to think how I may have accidentally caused this problem that resulted in an empty GUID folder and the absence of a "Microsoft" and "Outlook Express" folder. In a previous backup session, when Ifound my Outlook Express folder and copied & pasted it to my external HD, I may possibly have "Cut and pasted" in error. I wonder if Outlook Express may be using the store on my external drive, rather than the one that doesn't seem to be there on my local drive C: Thanks to Bruce, Don and Jim, but I give up. Fred Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi I have not yet been successful in finding a home for my store folder. The old location for it was: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{651FEF03-F5AD-49E8-8735-3B1E6475A8FE}\Microsoft\Outlook Express My recent problem seems to have been that my GUID folder became empty. Tody, in an attempt to create a new home for it, I created a new folder in the GUID folder named "Microsoft" and in the Microsoft folder I created a new folder called "Outlook Express" My thinking was that the old path had brecome broken by the empty GUID folder and the absence of the old Microsoft and Outlook express folders. So I tried to reconstruct the old path by adding the folders and moving the Message store into the new Outlook Express folder. When I went through the steps to move the store I noticed that when I clicked on Maintenance/ Store Folder it showed the same path as shown in the at the beginning of this post as "The old location". Nevertheless, I clicked "Change" and browsed to the New "Outlook Express" folder that I had just created. and clicked on "OK". I then closed OE, and reopened it then used Windows explorer to look in the new Outlook Express folder . It was empty. My Outlook express e-mail and news functions seem to work OK. The main purpose of my efforts in this has been to try to get my Message store into its own folder, so I can conveniently copy and paste the whole folder into my backup media (external HD). In your opinion, would I be better if I created a folder such as:C:\ Message Store and try to move the store into that instead of trying to return to the old default path? Thanks, .... Fred C: "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Bruce and Ron, With the suggestions you offered I should be able to get through this OK. All the cautions I've read about the 'registry' have succeeded in making be steer clear of monkeying with it if possible. Fred ============================================ "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... There is another way around which you /may/ find easier. File | Identity | Add New Identity. In the new identity: File | Import | Messages. Select: Microsoft Outlook Express and then click the radio button to Import from an OE store directory. Browse to the location of your current message store, (Where you found the dbx files doing the search) and import them into the new identity. How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169 If all your folders and files imported successfully. Check in Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder. You should see a new path that resides in C:\ Documents and Settings..................... Make sure you are set to view Hidden Files and Folders. 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. If you can follow that new path and see your dbx files, the message store is in the place intended by default. You will have to Export / Import your Address Book from the old Identity. Open the Address Book in the old identity and File | Export to any place on your HDD that is easy for you. My Documents is fine. Then, open the Address Book in the new identity and File | Import and point to where you saved it. In File | Identities | Manage Identities, make the new identity the default identity. Don't rush. Use the new identity for awhile to make sure all is well and then you can delete the old identity. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "bayskater" wrote in message ... Bruce? Ron? Jim? Any answer to my question in PS (below)? Thanks, Fred "bayskater" wrote in message ... Thanks, Jim, Besides being 'not familiar" I'm 78, and the grey matter is now a very light grey. I opened regedit and clicked on help and tried a search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities and got nowhere, so I haven't even been able to view what the current settings are yet. I'll keep reading and will try to absorb the 'basics' and will report back in a week or so. Thanks, Fred PS Meantime is there any merit to my suggestion that I should: 1. Create a new folder called 'Microsoft' in the empty GUID folder. 2. Create a new folder called 'Outlook Express' in the new 'Microsoft' folder 3.Follow the instructions (given by Bruce)to move the store folder and move it to a new folder on your C Drive. Any place is acceptable How about my newly created 'Outlook Express' folder? That would seem to recreate the path that WAS my default location of the store folder Thanks, F. "Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message ... Since you are not familiar with using the registry editor, I'd suggest you start with some reading of the basics. Try the info at this link: http://www.insideoe.com/tips/regedit.htm Good luck and be careful when working in the registry. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps "bayskater" wrote in message ... Hi Jim, Starting out to follow your suggestion and searched for Open the registry editor and got: . To open Registry Editor, click Start, click Run, type , and then click OK. type what? Thanks, ... 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