Outlook Express 5.x is capable of story your identity (i.e., your messages, address book, rules, etc.) either in an Identities folder inside the Outlook Express folder itself, or (as has been discussed) in the Documents/Microsoft User Data/Identities folder.
(Side note: We have several users and thus several identities in our household, so rather than use the Main Identity, we all have our separate identities folders, i.e., a "John Doe" folder, a "Jane Doe" folder, a "Jill Doe" folder, etc.). The advantage of using the Documents/Microsoft User Data/Identities folder (hereafter referred to as "Documents etc.") is that by default, OE will look to that folder for identities. If there are none there, then it will look into the OE folder. If you update your version of Outlook Express (current is 5.0.6), it's handier to store your identities in the Documents etc. folder since whatever version of OE you are using, the OE app will always look to the Documents folder first. With Microsoft releasing new version of OE at a rapid rate because of security fixes, this saves a lot of time when updating. One last comment: If you check email from multiple machines, I recommend that you designate one machine that is your "main" email machine. On that machine, you can go inside to Tools/Accounts/, double-click on your account name, click the Options tab and, under Server Options, determine whether you want to leave email messages on the email server (warning: leave messages on there for long and your ISP email inbox may fill up, leaving you unable to receive new messages). More importantly, on any "satellite" machines on which you may check your email (i.e., your work machine or your laptop), Tools/Accounts/, double-click on your account name, click the Options tab, then click "Leave a copy of each message on server." This way, you can check your email from your satellite machine(s), but when you get home, all your email can still be downloaded to your "main email machine." From there, you can permanently delete whatever email you don't want from your machine (and the server) without stranding some message on your satellite machine. Sorry for the long post; hope I explained these concepts adequately. -- Chuck on 10/25/02 3:58 PM, dog b at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you have OE 5.0.3 installed on the laptop, copy the contents of the > Documents>Microsoft User Data>Identities>Main Identities folder from your home > machine to the same location on your laptop. > > When you open OE on your laptop all of the messages, address book, rules, etc > frmo your home machine will be in place. > > I have done this a number of times when one or the other of my machines has > been down. > > Also, if you keep a lot of messages saved in OE, it's a good idea to back up > all the files in that Main Identities folder from time to time. -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:powercomputing@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:powercomputing-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:powercomputing-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
