Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Every now and then OE asks if I want to archive my emails as I've apparently too many for OE's comfort.I always say no and then I delete the ones I don't want.However it is easy to inadvertantly click yes by mistake as I've done this in the past.I don't know where the archived mail goes so don't ask me. :dunce:

Anyway ever since I've stopped collecting emails I'm not asked to archive them by OE.

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

I have got firefox, browserand thunderbird the e-mail client. Not yet installed, but I will get round to it.
This is basically why i am going down this road.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...itch_explorer/

XP has program access, set defaults etc if you load other browsers/e-mail clients m$ were forced to provide this.
You will have to keep the ms software where it's use is forced on you, ie m$ update or accessing some m$ only websites which only accept ie 5.5+ etc.

:scratch:

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

cheers for the links :) i'll see what i can do - *grr* all the same and *grr* indeed! haha ah well

i see one of the programs there costs that thing called money with a paypal accnt - d'oh i don't have paypal!

**returns a few minutes later after much googling

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=295965

I did what it says here and got the main folder back, although have lost the sub-folder .. will try and find it from a back up :)

thanks y'all..! where would i be without you!?!?!?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

If you find your dbx files you can move them back into the right place I think. Been a while since I last broke my accounts ;)

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

lol, i may have done - although i do leave it turned on for hours on end, so maybe it did something to be *helpful* in the way that windows related stuff likes to do ?!?

dunno, at least i got some stuff back, so it's not a total washout! :D

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

this is scary stuff indeed! hence one of my reasons for moving to linux (When i get round to it) - i am an avid fan of firefox, although it doesn't work on all the pcs we have here, it seems to be quite resource-hungry. it hangs one pc we have with 128mb ram and the other with 324mb goes dead slow. the extensions and skin support is also dead cool :)

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

lol i think i have managed it, although one folder really has gone walkabout :dozey: maybe the intelligent emails i get have somehow merged to form a higher form of intelligence - which then decided it was too clever for my pc so has moved off to some remote corner of the internet to settle down and have kids.

you never know :P

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Hmmm think those are saved as .eml files but not too sure :confused: will ask google in a minute ;)

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

My email client is discussed here:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...5&page=3&pp=15

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

lol, i searched for *.eml and my findings consisted of the first two emails i ever recieved .. way back in '98 ! wow! i kept them for sentimental value and crossed them over when i got a new pc :)

still no luck with the mysterious other folder though. just don't know where it has gone ?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

1998? Hope you dusted them ;) Will go google for more help ;)

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

You need to find the .dbx file to get hold of your other emails, are you searching hidden files etc? Your storage folder for Outlook Express is listed in your outlook express, under Tools, options, maintenance, store folder.
This gives more info on where else to look
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/search.htm

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

this is really really odd - i found the log file for Oe's compacting of my folders, and my folders were there earlier today. yet now the emails and the folder itself, has completely vanished. one of the folders that vanished - the .dbx file was still on the pc. the other folder has just walked off the edge of the planet - i've searched hidden and system folders, everything i can think of -

i think i'll have to give up the ghost on this one, and use the backup i made tomorrow :dozey:

still, it's very confusing, for a number of reasons:

1. why this happened in the first place
2. why it completely removed one folder but left the other to be put back again

ah well , these things happen :dozey: