Greetings. I deleted an Outlook Express account from within Outlook Express,
assuming that the email data
for that account can easily be located via the Windows Explorer. It seems
like I cannot easily locate the data (I found lots of dbx files, but they
cannot easily be deciphered).

Could you please provide some pointers? If the user account was foo, where
do I locate foo's archived or sent messages (to import into a new account).

Many thanks and best wishes for a prosperous new year!

Ideen

Are the dbx files for the deleted account? See:

Backup & Restore:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Ideen" <Ideen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9EE3C742-41C9-4F51-84ED-1F78A52A222C@microsoft.com...
> Greetings. I deleted an Outlook Express account from within Outlook
> Express,
> assuming that the email data
> for that account can easily be located via the Windows Explorer. It seems
> like I cannot easily locate the data (I found lots of dbx files, but they
> cannot easily be deciphered).
>
> Could you please provide some pointers? If the user account was foo, where
> do I locate foo's archived or sent messages (to import into a new
> account).
>
> Many thanks and best wishes for a prosperous new year!
>
> Ideen
>

"Ideen" <Ideen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9EE3C742-41C9-4F51-84ED-1F78A52A222C@microsoft.com
> Greetings. I deleted an Outlook Express account from within Outlook
> Express, assuming that the email data
> for that account can easily be located via the Windows Explorer. It
> seems like I cannot easily locate the data (I found lots of dbx
> files, but they cannot easily be deciphered).
>
> Could you please provide some pointers? If the user account was foo,
> where do I locate foo's archived or sent messages (to import into a
> new account).
>
> Many thanks and best wishes for a prosperous new year!
>
> Ideen

Search the hard drive for Inbox.db?

If you are using Win2K or WinXP or higher you will have to set Search to
show hidden files and folders.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
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See here for message recovery techniques: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

steve

"Ideen" <Ideen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9EE3C742-41C9-4F51-84ED-1F78A52A222C@microsoft.com...
> Greetings. I deleted an Outlook Express account from within Outlook
> Express,
> assuming that the email data
> for that account can easily be located via the Windows Explorer. It seems
> like I cannot easily locate the data (I found lots of dbx files, but they
> cannot easily be deciphered).
>
> Could you please provide some pointers? If the user account was foo, where
> do I locate foo's archived or sent messages (to import into a new
> account).
>
> Many thanks and best wishes for a prosperous new year!
>
> Ideen
>