How do they get away with it?

foghorne · Feb 1, 2007

CatFan432 said:

The secret to happiness in backing up Outlook Express files and the address book is to move them to their own folder, (better yet a separate partition) then you can just create a backup job for that folder if you wish. It's worked great for me.

Moving the email files is quite easy. Just create a folder for OE, then a sub folder for each identity. Open OE, then:
Tools-Options-Maintenance-Store Folder - and then browse to point the file to your new folder. Note that you have to close OE before the files are actually moved.

Moving the address book requires a registry edit, described in the attached text file. Of course, backup everything before making the changes.
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I too hold OE data in this way for a number of users, along with My Documents, IE history, IE favourites etc etc. I could never go back to storing it all on the system partition and it is all easily moved via registry changes.

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seekforever · Feb 1, 2007

FWIW, yeah, I know, exactly what you are paying for it.

I found the easy way to backup my OE files, I leave them on the ISP's server since I found out they provide 2GB of storage.

I never store anything in My Documents etc so it is just a scratch area.

My Favorites is copied onto another machine for use and inherent backup but it now has so much obsolete stuff in it, it could be a blessing if it were lost.

My Address Book is also copied onto another machine for use and inherent backup.

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