where is the folder containing my email messages?

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drcboston

I have cloned my entire internal hard drive to another new internal
hard drive and am going to erase the first one; I want to make sure I
don't inadvertantly trash the folders containing my email messages. On
the new drive, I see folders under Identities" that contain Outlook
Express message documents, but those are older email identities. I now
use Entourage, with new email identities.

I can find the new identities under "Documents - Microsoft User Data -
Office 2004 Identities", though that folder doesn't contain a document
titles "messages". Are the messages stored elsewhere? Since making the
new drive the start-up disk, does Entourage know to save them to that
drive as opposed to the older drive, which I want to erase? Is that a
preference I can set?

thanks, in advance,
david
 
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matt neuburg

drcboston said:
I have cloned my entire internal hard drive to another new internal
hard drive and am going to erase the first one; I want to make sure I
don't inadvertantly trash the folders containing my email messages. On
the new drive, I see folders under Identities" that contain Outlook
Express message documents, but those are older email identities. I now
use Entourage, with new email identities.

I can find the new identities under "Documents - Microsoft User Data -
Office 2004 Identities", though that folder doesn't contain a document
titles "messages".
Click to expand...

Nevertheless, they are in there (in the Database).
Are the messages stored elsewhere?
No.

Since making the
new drive the start-up disk, does Entourage know to save them to that
drive as opposed to the older drive
Click to expand...

Basically, yes. It doesn't have anything to do with the startup drive
per se; it has to do with the fact that this is your user folder. It
happens that your user folder is on the startup drive so the effect is
the same. m.
 
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