Tools, Options, Maintenance tab, Store Folder button.
Note the location of the Store Folder for your and your wife's Identity.
Create a new Identity.
File| Import| Messages| OE6| Message store
directory, then browse to one of the folders that is not yours or your
wife's.
Do you want any of the messages?
If yes, then switch to your or your wife's Identity and import.
Remove the messages from the new Identity and import from the fourth folder.
Import any wanted messages.
Remove the new Identity.
Delete the dbx files for the new Identity and the other two folders.
--
Ron Sommer


"MC" wrote in message
...
Ron,
When I open OE and click on Identities, there are two and only two.
But when I go to the Identities folder, there are four. Two for me, and
two
for my wife.
Leading me back to my original question: can I merge these folders so
that
the two folders for me become one, and the two folders for my wife become
one? And if so, how?
Thank you.

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

If you create a new Identity, then there will be the Main Identity and
the
created Identity.
I don't understand why you have four Identities.
In OE, File, Switch Identities
How many Identities are listed?

You can import messages from other Identities.
Make sure that there are no duplicates before importing.
--
Ron Sommer

"MC" wrote in message
...
Ron, there are a total of four folders for two identities. Two per
identity.
Each folder has a long string of numbers as the name. When I
deciphered
each folder, two were for me, two for my wife. Each contained all the
OE
folders in it: inbox, sent, deleted, etc.
So I'm wondering why two per identity, and if it is possible to merge
the
two folders per identity into one per identity?

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

Do any of the files have a number, (1) ?
I don't know what you mean by two files for each of us.
Each folder in OE has a dbx file.
Every Identity has it's own folders and dbx files.
--
Ron Sommer

"MC" wrote in message
...
Running OE6, and Windows XP Pro SP2.
I have two email accounts set up with my ISP, (Comcast). One for
myself
and
one for my wife. I noticed that when I go to the .dbx files where
OE
stores
its messages, there are two files for each of us. Is this the norm?
I
wouldn't think so.
I'm wondering why this is and, more importantly, how I can combine
the
duplicate files so each of us has one file per identity. I figure
this
would
make things easier for me when I backup and should I need to
reinstall.
Thank you.