Newsgroups?

[Moi]

Trying for info again. Outlook 2000. Have succeeded in moving the location
of the pst file so that all my emails and address book get saved to My
Documents, which I back up frequently.

But it seems that Newgroups subscribed to are not so saved. Where are they
saved please?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

they are in outlook express -so its whereever outlook express has their dbx
files.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Trying for info again. Outlook 2000. Have succeeded in moving the location
of the pst file so that all my emails and address book get saved to My
Documents, which I back up frequently.

But it seems that Newgroups subscribed to are not so saved. Where are they
saved please?

On Windows XP the default location is %AppData%\Local
Settings\Identities\{5FA32A7E-088F-426D-8CE9-2DBCD63DA878}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express.

There's really no need to back up newsgroup folders. They'll get recreated
whenever you recreate the subscription. Your pointers indicating which
messages you've read will be reset, but that's hardly a big deal.

 

[Moi]

On Windows XP the default location is %AppData%\Local
Settings\Identities\{5FA32A7E-088F-426D-8CE9-2DBCD63DA878}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express.

There's really no need to back up newsgroup folders. They'll get
recreated whenever you recreate the subscription. Your pointers
indicating which messages you've read will be reset, but that's hardly a
big deal.

Hi again Brian. Can you explain what exactly you mean by 'recreate the
subscription'? When I recently rebuilt my system, using an image made
before subscribing to some new newsgroups, it did not of course include
these. This is what I'd like to have accomplished via my very regular My
Documents backup, which I've already arranged to hold the pst file and
therefore all my emails plus the contact file. I'd like to do the same with
Newsgroup choices.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Can you explain what exactly you mean by 'recreate the subscription'?

How can you read news in Outlook Express and not know what this is? You
define your news account and then download the names of all the newsgroups
the sserver carries. Yoiu then subscribe to the groups you wish to follow.
OE creates DBX files for each of those groups and then populates them with
the messages in the group.

When I recently rebuilt my system, using an image made before subscribing
to some new newsgroups, it did not of course include these.

Of course not. Until you open a newsgroup, OE won't create the folder (dbx
file) for it.

This is what I'd like to have accomplished via my very regular My
Documents backup, which I've already arranged to hold the pst file and
therefore all my emails plus the contact file. I'd like to do the same
with Newsgroup choices.

You can tell OE what folder to use for its files on the Maintenance tab of
Tools>Options. This is, however, outside the scope of this newsgroup. Ask
OE questions in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general.