Re: Copying existing folders, messages & Address books to a new drive.

Perhaps you might be interested in using your Windows XP Files and Settings
Transfer Wizard.

FILE & SETTINGS TRANSFER
(F.A.S.T. for Short)
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.php

Using the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/crawford_november12.mspx

Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating Files and Settings
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/mgrtfset.mspx

Ken

"elgonquin" <elgonquin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:623D3B10-B6D0-40B1-9FEF-4A6898EBD282@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Hi,
|
| I've just gotten a new hard drive and I'm about to set my computer up
again
| from scratch and format the current hard drive. In the past when I've done
| this, I've always lost folders, emails and addresses, despite my efforts
to
| copy the data files and replace them and then direct outlook express to
that
| folder when setting up the new identities. I have two identities running
in
| OE, and I also have had trouble keeping the address books seperate.
|
| Is there a step by step run through for the process of copying existing
| folders, emails and adresses to a new drive and then being able to direct
a
| new installation of OE to that location?
|
| Having had trouble with this in the past, I also now have two sets of data
| that I wish to consolidate into one so that my new installation identities
| can access the old emails and folders as well as the current ones. Is
there a
| way of doing this? I tried copying the .dbx files into the same folder as
the
| current ones, but OE doesn't seem to recognise that they're there...

.

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