Lost emails

I have a question about whether or not Outlook Express
backs up email FOLDERS. I was trying to transfer my
emails from one Windows XP Login to another, and it was
all fine and dandy until I opened up Outlook Express,
pointed my "Save emails to" address to the new folder,
and then when I opened up OE, I lost not only the emails
in the folders that I had made, but also the Inbox
emails, Sent emails, etc. which are the generic folders.
Do I have any chance of recovering them? Oh yea, I guess
I CUT instead of COPIED the emails, so the original files
are also deleted...

So, basically, I am just wondering if there is a hidden
place that OE stores emails that I can recover these lost
emails from.

Thanks,
Nick

Nick Mallare wrote:
I have a question about whether or not Outlook Express
backs up email FOLDERS. I was trying to transfer my
emails from one Windows XP Login to another, and it was
all fine and dandy until I opened up Outlook Express,
pointed my "Save emails to" address to the new folder,
and then when I opened up OE, I lost not only the emails
in the folders that I had made, but also the Inbox
emails, Sent emails, etc. which are the generic folders.
Do I have any chance of recovering them? Oh yea, I guess
I CUT instead of COPIED the emails, so the original files
are also deleted...

So, basically, I am just wondering if there is a hidden
place that OE stores emails that I can recover these lost
emails from.

Thanks,
Nick

OE does not automatically backup your mail folders. You need to do this
periodically yourself. You can use this link for all information, which
starts out with a link to a free program that will make the process
painless.

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

You can try doing a search for *.dbx and seeing if you can find the
"lost" folders. I am unsure of what you actually tried to do, but if you
tried to change your store folder and did not create the folder before
moving the mail, I am afraid you may have lost all your mail.

You may have to enable "show hidden files and folders" via control
panelfolder optionsview before you can do the search for the folders.

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)