Where does Outlook 2003 keep it's e-mail settings, folders, etc?

[MaxDSP]

I'm trying to access my old mailboxes and settings from a corrupt windows install from another partition with clean install.

Drive C became corrupt, it had all my settings and mail folders/messages. I installed Win2k on a different partition and am trying to replace the newly created data files with the ones from the old install.

 

[Zoinks]

Do a search for .PST files. Beyond that, you need an expert. Outlook puts stuff a lot of places but most everything you are looking for is in the PST file.

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: Zoinks
Do a search for .PST files. Beyond that, you need an expert. Outlook puts stuff a lot of places but most everything you are looking for is in the PST file.

yea, I located the pst files and was able to open all my email folders up. I guess what I was really looking for was the E-Mail account settings file, similar to how Outlook Express used .iaf files. I had like 7-9 POP3 e-mail accounts and 3 Hotmail setup on my old install, so it was a PITA setting them up again on this machine. I wanna see if I can export the settings so I don't have to go through it again next time I do a reinstall

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: Zoinks
Do a search for .PST files. Beyond that, you need an expert. Outlook puts stuff a lot of places but most everything you are looking for is in the PST file.

yea, I located the pst files and was able to open all my email folders up. I guess what I was really looking for was the E-Mail account settings file, similar to how Outlook Express used .iaf files. I had like 7-9 POP3 e-mail accounts and 3 Hotmail setup on my old install, so it was a PITA setting them up again on this machine. I wanna see if I can export the settings so I don't have to go through it again next time I do a reinstall

Should have used the Microsoft Office 2003 Save my settings wizard, it would have stored all the settings including the mail accounts.

 

[MaxDSP]

sweet, just ran the Save my Settings wizard, hopefully it works next time I reinstall. Thanks NightCrawler