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Old March 25th 08, 05:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Ralf Fronczyk
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Default Where are OE's settings stored?


"JoeSpareBedroom" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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At my home office, a user's computer began making odd noises which turned
out to be the hard disk in the throes of death. Our tech consultant
managed to salvage quite a bit, but they can't find his pst files from
Outlook (not OE). They're not in the usual place, and it's suspected they
might be on the office server. I don't know what they've done so far to
check this theory, but never mind that.

A couple of years ago, I relocated my OE message store to c:\oe\messages,
which makes it much easier for me to find the files and do backups. Less
cryptic path than the default. Pondering the other user's predicament, I
wondered what would happen if I needed to find my message store, but I
couldn't use Tools, Options, Maintenance for some reason. Obviously, I
could search the disk for all occurrences of inbox.dbx, and one of the
search results would be correct. But, I wondered about searching the
registry. I tried that, using the exact path to my message store folder,
and got no results at all.

Why? Where does OE store that config info, if not in the registry?



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