Import all settings from recovered HDD

The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for *.dbx (the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the directory of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and point to that directory. That will get the messages back, but you will have to set up the accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the account
settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for *.dbx
(the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the directory
of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and point to that
directory. That will get the messages back, but you will have to set up the
accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

You can do a File | Load Hive in Regedit on the old NTUSER.DAT for that particular user and then get to the appropriate registry keys (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx) and then export them and modify them in Notepad to match the current system and then merge those, which would give you the account parameters, but it won't give you the passwords back. You might be able to use PassSniff (search for something like that, its free, but I forget the URL and exact name) to retrieve the passwords.

steve

"bill" wrote in message ...
Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the account
settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for *.dbx
(the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the directory
of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and point to that
directory. That will get the messages back, but you will have to set up the
accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

Thanks Steve, and for the other post. Had seen that method but am a bit
nervous about messing with the registry. Something about having to unload it
too!!

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
You can do a File | Load Hive in Regedit on the old NTUSER.DAT for that
particular user and then get to the appropriate registry keys (see
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx) and then export them and modify them in Notepad
to match the current system and then merge those, which would give you the
account parameters, but it won't give you the passwords back. You might be
able to use PassSniff (search for something like that, its free, but I
forget the URL and exact name) to retrieve the passwords.

steve

"bill" wrote in message
...
Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the account
settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for *.dbx
(the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the
directory
of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and point to that
directory. That will get the messages back, but you will have to set up
the
accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

Maybe this can help, - maybe not.

http://support.internetdesign.com/em...xpressiaf.html

"bill" wrote in message
...
Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the
account settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for
*.dbx (the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find
the directory of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE
and point to that directory. That will get the messages back, but you
will have to set up the accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and
accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so
far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

Not quite what I'm after, but thanks.

"FromTheRafters" erratic @nomail.afraid.org wrote in message
...
Maybe this can help, - maybe not.

http://support.internetdesign.com/em...xpressiaf.html

"bill" wrote in message
...
Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the account
settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for
*.dbx (the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the
directory of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and
point to that directory. That will get the messages back, but you will
have to set up the accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

What exactly *can* you see on this HDD? If only the files in Windows
Explorer, you will probably need to set up the accounts from scratch.

As far as your messages go:

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.

The path to the message store will be very similar to this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{Long string of letters & numbers}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express

Copy the *ENTIRE* OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx
must be included). Place this on the Desktop or other location. Open OE
and: File | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and point to
where you saved it.

Note: I am not sure if messages already on the new HDD will be
overwritten. To be safe, before you import, create new folders in OE with
a name that is not in the backup. Eg: Move all your messages out of the
Inbox so when you import the old Inbox, it won't over write those
messages. You can merge them later.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"bill" wrote in message
...
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and
accounts settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can
anyone point me at a link that documents that process please. All my
searches so far (which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly
different processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill

[Catch anything for supper?]

Bruce Hagen wrote:
SNIP