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echo: nthelp
to: chad
from: Chris Robinson
date: 1995-12-09 16:51:04
subject: Re: email moving

From: Chris Robinson 

Oh yeh, sorry about that - didn't realise :o)

chad wrote:

> that's outlook.  outlook express keeps everything in files with a .dbx
> extension.  and every folder gets its own .dbx file too, unlike the much
> tidier .pst files.  but then that's how i move my outlook express files too,
> but i just move the whole lot of them instead of the single file.  i also
> love the default placement of the .dbx files.  in 2000/xp systems, it's
> something like the following:   %sysdrive%:\documents and settings\%your
> profile here%\local settings\application data\identities\%sid of your
> NIC%/microsoft/outlook express
>
> not exactly the sid of your NIC but something like that.  and then i just
> move the folders by copying them to cd and then putting in some false server
> info and attempting to access the email server, which creates the folders,
> then replace them with the old folders, fix the server info and go.  now
> that i write that out, it seems like there must be an easier way.
>
> chad - infrequent visitor.
>
> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:3DF4A7FE.AD074A0A{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > can't you just copy the .pst file from the old PC to the new one?
> >
> > "Geo." wrote:
> >
> > > What was that program someone here mentioned to move your outlook
> express
> > > email from one machine to another?
> > >
> > > Geo.
> >

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