I have just assembled a new desktop. I attached my old hard as a slave
drive.This old hard drive has my old E Mail messages. I would like to create
a folder in outlook Express which points to the E Mail folder on the old
drive so that I can read those Emails but have them remain on the old hard
drive rather than import them to the new hard drive. Can this be done?. I
know it can be done in MS Outlook.

Go to ToolsOptionsMaintenanceStore folderChange ...

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Geoff_s" wrote in message
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I have just assembled a new desktop. I attached my old hard as a slave
drive.This old hard drive has my old E Mail messages. I would like to
create
a folder in outlook Express which points to the E Mail folder on the old
drive so that I can read those Emails but have them remain on the old hard
drive rather than import them to the new hard drive. Can this be done?. I
know it can be done in MS Outlook.

How to move your store folder
http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#movestore
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Geoff_s wrote:
I have just assembled a new desktop. I attached my old hard as a slave
drive.This old hard drive has my old E Mail messages. I would like to
create a folder in outlook Express which points to the E Mail folder on
the old drive so that I can read those Emails but have them remain on the
old hard drive rather than import them to the new hard drive. Can this be
done?. I know it can be done in MS Outlook.

All the mail files (DBX files) for an identity have to be in the same
Windows folder (Store Folder). You can't have some on one drive and
some on another.

You could have 2 identities with one having the new messages and the
other having the old.

How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169

How do I move my store folder?
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#movestore

Be careful when using the change store folder. OE expects to move the
files from the old store folder to the new.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Geoff_s" wrote in message
...
I have just assembled a new desktop. I attached my old hard as a slave
drive.This old hard drive has my old E Mail messages. I would like to
create
a folder in outlook Express which points to the E Mail folder on the
old
drive so that I can read those Emails but have them remain on the old
hard
drive rather than import them to the new hard drive. Can this be
done?. I
know it can be done in MS Outlook.