Where on C: Drive is OE Newsgroups stored?

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

Can someone tell me how to FIND OE's Newsgroups (where they're stored) on C:
drive using WXP-Home/SP2?

How are they located? I cannot find them under Programs/Outlook Express. I
cannot compress them all because my PC locks up. How are they found????
What are they under?

Thanks.........

FS~

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Can someone tell me how to FIND OE's Newsgroups (where they're stored) on C:
drive using WXP-Home/SP2?

How are they located? I cannot find them under Programs/Outlook Express. I
cannot compress them all because my PC locks up. How are they found????
What are they under?

Thanks.........

FS~

By default they are in your profile folder. Check your
hard disk for .dbx files.

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

By default they are in your profile folder.

## What and where is the "profile folder?"

Check your

hard disk for .dbx files.

## Check it how? What do you mean? A search doesn't show anything related
to OE Newsgroups when I typed in dbx files.

Thanks

FS~

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

## What and where is the "profile folder?"

Check your

## Check it how? What do you mean? A search doesn't show anything related
to OE Newsgroups when I typed in dbx files.

Thanks

FS~

Under the current versions of Windows, every user has a profile folder.
This is where the many settings are kept that pertain to your session.
You can see the name of yours by clicking Start / Run, then typing
cmd /c echo %userprofile% & pause {OK}.

When I said "check it" I meant that you should click Start / Run / Search,
then use this facility to look for .dbx files. This is an extremely useful
tool to locate files on your hard disk.

You can also locate your OE files by poking around in OE:
Click Tools / Options / Maintenance / Store Folder. Again there are
many useful things to be found under the Tools menu.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Can someone tell me how to FIND OE's Newsgroups (where they're stored) on C:
drive using WXP-Home/SP2?

How are they located? I cannot find them under Programs/Outlook Express. I
cannot compress them all because my PC locks up. How are they found????
What are they under?

Thanks.........

FS~

In Outlook Express, click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store
Folder, which will show the folder where OE keeps its data. There
will be a .dbx file for each newsgroup.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Steve Cochran]

If you are having trouble compacting the message store, then its likely to
be corrupt. You need to set up a new Identity via File | Identities and
then do points 2 and 3 here (www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx) to help prevent
message loss.

Once you get it working in that Identity, you can go to File | Identities
and import from the older, corrupt identity.

Then backup the message store. See the links on that page above for that.

steve

 

[mac]

Can someone tell me how to FIND OE's Newsgroups (where they're stored) on
C: drive using WXP-Home/SP2?

How are they located? I cannot find them under Programs/Outlook Express.
I cannot compress them all because my PC locks up. How are they found????
What are they under?

Thanks.........

FS~

Auto compacting in OE is done after 100 closings.

..dbx files are by default hidden, to view these files in Explorer, you must
enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start>Control Panel>Folder
Options>View.

Search for *.dbx why you want to look at them I do not know, since only OE
can read them?

The best way to do a manual compact is to Click on Outlook Express at the
top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File>Work Offline.
File>Folder>Compact all folders.

**Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed**.

Please explain what you are doing when *PC locks up*?

Are you seeing Auto compacting on closing OE?

Do a couple of minor registry edits to stop the compacting for now.

Then do a manual compaction.

You may have seen a dialogue at some time that had a 'Don't ask me again'
box? If you selected that, the process still goes ahead without your
knowledge.

To restore the 'don't ask', go here:
Go to: Start>Run>Regedit>OK and find this key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Dont Show Dialogs
{GUID} is a long number representing your Identity.
Reset the value to 0 (zero)

To stop it - for now!!

Go to: Start>Run>Regedit>OK and find this key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{long number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0. In the right
hand pane and find *Compact Check Count* >right click>modify>decimal>and set
the value to 0,
(zero). This will reset the prompt, and you won't see it again for
another 100 closings.

See this for more information on compacting:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

See this part, but read all the article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx#EDAA
HTH?

Do not store large amounts of mail in the default folders Inbox, Sent Items
etc, create folders and move your messages out to them. Also create message
rules to move regular mails to specific created folders.

 

[Ron Sommer]

Under the current versions of Windows, every user has a profile folder.
This is where the many settings are kept that pertain to your session.
You can see the name of yours by clicking Start / Run, then typing
cmd /c echo %userprofile% & pause {OK}.

When I said "check it" I meant that you should click Start / Run / Search,
then use this facility to look for .dbx files. This is an extremely useful
tool to locate files on your hard disk.

You can also locate your OE files by poking around in OE:
Click Tools / Options / Maintenance / Store Folder. Again there are
many useful things to be found under the Tools menu.

OE dbx files are hidden files in XP.
Include hidden files in your search or show hidden files under folder view.

 

[Bill Martin]

Under the current versions of Windows, every user has a profile folder.
This is where the many settings are kept that pertain to your session.
You can see the name of yours by clicking Start / Run, then typing
cmd /c echo %userprofile% & pause {OK}.

When I said "check it" I meant that you should click Start / Run / Search,
then use this facility to look for .dbx files. This is an extremely useful
tool to locate files on your hard disk.

You can also locate your OE files by poking around in OE:
Click Tools / Options / Maintenance / Store Folder. Again there are
many useful things to be found under the Tools menu.

----------------

I do Start/Run and type in search and XP (with all updates) complains that name
does not exist. Normally I would do a search from within WidowsExplorer. Is
the search tool you're referring to the same one?

Bill

 

[PA Bear]

How OE stores your data
http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

----------------

I do Start/Run and type in search and XP (with all updates) complains
that name does not exist. Normally I would do a search from within
WidowsExplorer. Is the search tool you're referring to the same one?

Bill

Did you instruct Search to Search hidden files and folders? The option is
under More Advanced options.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[mac]

Did you instruct Search to Search hidden files and folders? The option is
under More Advanced options.

Looks to me like he did not go that far up the start menu?
He used start>run

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Looks to me like he did not go that far up the start menu?
He used start>run

Reading his message again, I believe you are correct.

Bill: Not Start | Run, Start | Search | All files and folders and then make
sure you did what I said.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

I do Start/Run and type in search and XP (with all updates) complains
that name does not exist. Normally I would do a search from within
WidowsExplorer. Is the search tool you're referring to the same one?

Bill

Bill: Not Start | Run, Start | Search | All files and folders and then make
sure you did what I said above.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[Bill Martin]

Reading his message again, I believe you are correct.

Bill: Not Start | Run, Start | Search | All files and folders and then
make sure you did what I said.

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That makes more sense. Pegasus explicitly said:

click Start / Run / Search,

which is why I followed that instruction. Your way makes more sense.

Bill

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

You can also locate your OE files by poking around in OE:
Click Tools / Options / Maintenance / Store Folder. Again there are
many useful things to be found under the Tools menu.

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Thanks, I did find them and posted BACK here but the message is not showing!
:-(

I found them (WXP-Home/Sp2) = >

Docs&Settings/Owner/LocalSettings/ApplicationData/Identities/OutlookExpress
- it was quite a journey!

FS~

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

OE dbx files are hidden files in XP.
Include hidden files in your search or show hidden files under folder
view.

====================
Yes, thanks. I found them but my later reply is not showing up here (from
last night). I did them manually (plus deleted a load of old files there)
since my PC would lock-up when it tried to compress them automatically.
There was 9 MBs of old trash that wasn't being deleted or removed
automatically. Even old News-servers I deleted long ago were still there.
:-(

FS~

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

I do Start/Run and type in search and XP (with all updates) complains that
name
does not exist. Normally I would do a search from within WidowsExplorer.
Is
the search tool you're referring to the same one?

===================
Agent ransack didn't find them - MS Search finally found them. It was an
involved journey. I wish they would auto-compress so I don't have to do
them by hand. I also wish they would GO when I delete old
News-Servers........ nothing ever seems to leave that OE folder once
downloaded from Usenet.

FS~

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

In Outlook Express, click Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store
Folder, which will show the folder where OE keeps its data. There
will be a .dbx file for each newsgroup.

===========================
Wow, and I went the LONG way around. )) Problem solved in any case.
Thanks so much!

This is the SHORTER way!

FS~

 

[~ FreeSpirit ~]

If you are having trouble compacting the message store, then its likely to
be corrupt. You need to set up a new Identity via File | Identities and
then do points 2 and 3 here (www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx) to help prevent
message loss.

## Will do thanks. I know it has to be corrupt because nothing ever leaves
that folder - ever - and messages can't be compacted.

Once you get it working in that Identity, you can go to File | Identities
and import from the older, corrupt identity.

Then backup the message store. See the links on that page above for that.

## Lets hope I can do it without screwing it up! :-|

FS~