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Well, that's ONE way to clean out your inbox

Heh, well that's one way to clean out your inbox. I just destroyed my entire Outlook Express e-mail archive. ALL of it. Pretty funny. Damn.

Well, on the other hand this gives me a chance to switch to Thunderbird. Part of the reason I hadn't wanted to switch to Thunderbird was because I didn't trust a 0.5 version to not lose data, but that's not a concern now

Also, in case this will help anyone else, here's what I did. I wanted to move my Outlook Express folder data to another location. So, I went to the options and went to change the store folder to that location. It said "Ok, it'll be done next time you start Outlook Express".

So I was like "Well, do you move it or do I have to move it and then you'll find it when you start up next time?". I figured I'd move it and let it find it. Turns out that next time it started, it found the old location empty, created a new folder hierarchy at the old location, and then deleted everything I had put in the new location. It wasn't smart enough to either figure out that the new location had a set of Outlook Express folders in it and automatically use those, OR at least notice that something was there and say "Hey, you sure you want me to delete all this for you?"

The strange thing, however, is that even after deleting everything at the new location, it still remains using the old location. If anyone has any ideas about how to get my data back (besides bringing my drive to some data-recovery specialist or something) I'd appreciate hearing them.

Oh, by the way. I do have many months worth of e-mail saved in K9 (my spam filter), though that's not all that much of a help.

Update: I tried the exact same thing in Thunderbird (changing the location of folders) and it worked like I expected it to... you move the folder yourself and it finds it.

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edited: 2004-03-20 02:15 (utc-5)