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David M. Jones
Dear Sirs,
For several months, I had been using IE/Outlook Express 6.0/SP1 with no
difficulties. During that time, because of many thousands of Yahoo type
group emails, I decided to use my OE 6's Tools--> Options -->
Maintenance --> Store Folder option to change my Store Folder from my small
C drive, to a folder on my large, external USB D drive.
This was working just fine, after exporting once, all of the emails to that
drive (except for whenever I forgot to turn on the external/USB drive, then,
I would have to go through the above process (except for the export) to
change the Store Folder again to the D: drive. At that point, all of my
emails and many custom named folders always reappeared and functioned as
normal.
Today, though, after reformatting and reinstalling my C drive and Win 98 SE
OS, and after upgrading it again via Windows Update to IE/OE 6, I then went
to
switch over to my Store Folder as before.
However this time, after successfully switching, and first closing OE and
reopening it as instructed, all of my emails and custom folders *still are
not appearing*. Only the same blank or default folders and one initial
email in the Inbox remain.
I did Explore over to the D drive folder which contain my many thousands of
saved emails and dozens of custom folders, and there are several .dbx files
there.
If you could help me figure out what is going on and how to restore all my
saved, irreplaceable emails and folders, I would be so thankful.
Also, does anyone know if there is a way to save one's Tools--> Message
Rules across reinstallations of IE/OE?
Thanks,
David
For several months, I had been using IE/Outlook Express 6.0/SP1 with no
difficulties. During that time, because of many thousands of Yahoo type
group emails, I decided to use my OE 6's Tools--> Options -->
Maintenance --> Store Folder option to change my Store Folder from my small
C drive, to a folder on my large, external USB D drive.
This was working just fine, after exporting once, all of the emails to that
drive (except for whenever I forgot to turn on the external/USB drive, then,
I would have to go through the above process (except for the export) to
change the Store Folder again to the D: drive. At that point, all of my
emails and many custom named folders always reappeared and functioned as
normal.
Today, though, after reformatting and reinstalling my C drive and Win 98 SE
OS, and after upgrading it again via Windows Update to IE/OE 6, I then went
to
switch over to my Store Folder as before.
However this time, after successfully switching, and first closing OE and
reopening it as instructed, all of my emails and custom folders *still are
not appearing*. Only the same blank or default folders and one initial
email in the Inbox remain.
I did Explore over to the D drive folder which contain my many thousands of
saved emails and dozens of custom folders, and there are several .dbx files
there.
If you could help me figure out what is going on and how to restore all my
saved, irreplaceable emails and folders, I would be so thankful.
Also, does anyone know if there is a way to save one's Tools--> Message
Rules across reinstallations of IE/OE?
Thanks,
David