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midol - 21 Dec 2007 19:28 GMT

Hi,

I recently moved document and address files off my laptop to an
external hard drive. When exporting messages from OE6 under XP SP2 I
see neither the name nor location of the exported data. Consequently I
am not able to move it. Can anyone tell me the name or location of the
exported messages file(s)?

Dave

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Diane Poremsky - 22 Dec 2007 05:04 GMT

see if insideoe.com has the information you need (this group is for outlook,
the premier email client included with Microsoft Office)

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mike - 13 Mar 2008 03:09 GMT

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mike - 13 Mar 2008 03:15 GMT

3.12.08

todays microsoft update has put my express email inside of outlook and it
must have moved my email file location as my inbox/sent and all the rest show
empty.

I am unable to show my email file.

when i try to load my file, it is marked PAB and it does not recognize my
existing files.

Is there some simple step I am missing?

Thank you...

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Brian Tillman - 13 Mar 2008 14:15 GMT

> 3.12.08

Next time, start your own thread.

> todays microsoft update has put my express email inside of outlook

No it didn't. What it probably did, however, was to make Outlook the
default mailer. When you ran it, you had your account configured to delete
messages from the server, so Outlook was doing exectly what you had it
configured to do.

> and it must have moved my email file location as my inbox/sent and
> all the rest show empty.

Sounds like a new mail profile, or at least a new PST was created in the
process somehow.

> I am unable to show my email file.

Tell me what this means to you. What are you doing to "show the email
file"?

> when i try to load my file, it is marked PAB and it does not
> recognize my existing files.

Hardly. Outlook doesn't use PAB files to store mail. Never has. PAB files
haven't been used in Outlook for about ten years now.

> Is there some simple step I am missing?

I suspect all you need to do is to modify your mail profile to include your
old PST (Personal Folders file) and make it the delivery location. However,
since you decided mentioning your Outlok version wasn't important, no one
can tell you how, exactly. See if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm

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