Outlook - Another question on backup

I have never backed up anything from OE except the address book. I'd like to
start backing up some of the mail folders but I do not know how to find them.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in
Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run.

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

Always include Folder.dbx in a backup. I suggest backing up the entire
store folder.

This freeware tool backs up everything in OE in seconds. Disregard what is
written in red. That is referring to a different program.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB):
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Backup & Restore:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/clone.htm
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

In OE, Tools/Options/Maintenance/Store Folder
will tell you where the mail is, and if you want offer
you the opportunity to use a different location
(I use My Documents/Outlook Express, so that
the mail is easy to find and gets backed up any
time I back up My Documents, which I do often).

Sensible, sir, sensible UNLESS that is you have installed Windows Search
installed in which case Windows Search will easily have accessed your DBX
files 100 times and OE will as request permission to compact your DBX files.
A nuisance if ever there was one. I had to get rid of Windows Search to
overcome this nuisance!

BTW, if you want to move the DBX files to a sub-folder of documents it is
best to create a suitably named folder (such as OE_DBX_Files  in advance
using Windows Explorer. Using the above process will, if I remember right,
move the DBX files to the new folder automatically.

The great advantage is that in a subfolder of My Documents they will be dead
easy to back up.
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choro
*****

You did not have to get rid of Windows Search. You just had to stop it from
indexing OE.


You have to tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.

Windows Search. Set Desktop Search Options:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/windows/desktopsearch/search/options.mspx

In the Windows Control Panel | Indexing Options | Modify. Clear the check
box for Outlook Express.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

Yes, I guess you are absolutely right. But Windows Search does have this
nuisance value to start indexing My Documents when you are or the computer
is in the middle of  doing several other things. I did not think that you
could have the OE DBX folder in My Documents and still be able NOT to index
it without stopping My Documents being indexed too.

But I will certainly have a look into this Thx..
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choro
*****

This was the location per Store folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{DFF16927-88E6-4EAA-A097-460B7E65289B}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express

I navigated via Windows Explorer to as far as that mile-long alphanumeric
mumbo-jumbo. But when I clicked or double-clicked it nothing happened; there
was apparently nothing lower than that. I had previously enabled the "Show
hidden folders" option.

However, everything opened up OK after I copied and pasted it into
Start/Run, so I have what I need.

As always, thanks for the prompt assistance.

Marty

Paste (or type) the entire path into the Start Run box or the Explorer
address bar.

See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6  OEQB coupled with OETool makes it
very easy and gives you 3 levels of redundancy.

steve