Lost Identities

I'm working with a Microsoft support incident to try to resolve a problem
related to the relationship of Outlook Express and Outlook.

As part of the troubleshooting, I was told to run regedit and export the
HKEY_CURRENT_USERIdentities key, which I did. Then I deleted that key,
ran Outlook Express and created a new identity.

The effort didn't resolve the problem so I imported the key but I've lost
many folders that I had pre-exporting the identity key. I can see folders
with those identities in my Documents and SettingsDefaultApplication
DataIdentities but they appear to be empty although yesterday I swear I
saw lots of .dbx files.

Any idea how I can get back to one of my identities and I can recover the
folders I've built and filled for some years now?

Karen

Were you logging in as the Default user?
Search for dbx files. Include hidden files in the search.
In OE, import the files.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/simple.htm
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Ron Sommer

"Karen" wrote in message
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I'm working with a Microsoft support incident to try to resolve a problem
related to the relationship of Outlook Express and Outlook.

As part of the troubleshooting, I was told to run regedit and export the
HKEY_CURRENT_USERIdentities key, which I did. Then I deleted that key,
ran Outlook Express and created a new identity.

The effort didn't resolve the problem so I imported the key but I've lost
many folders that I had pre-exporting the identity key. I can see folders
with those identities in my Documents and SettingsDefaultApplication
DataIdentities but they appear to be empty although yesterday I swear I
saw lots of .dbx files.

Any idea how I can get back to one of my identities and I can recover the
folders I've built and filled for some years now?

Karen