I want to save copies of some of my Emails but there doesn't seem to
be anyway (inside OE) to save them to an external file. So I thought
I'd save them from Windows Explorer. I clicked on properties of one
of the messages, and it gave me "C\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\"MY
NAME"\LOCAL". But there is no such path when I go to docs & sets.

How can I copy an Email message to a location outside of OE? I am
running Win XP Pro SP2. I hope I phrased this properly.

TIA

"Pop Aye" <lost@sea.org> wrote in message
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"Pop Aye" <lost@sea.org> wrote in message
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Tools -> Options -> Maintenance -> Store Folder

You might've had the correct path but you truncated it. There is no
"Local" subfolder but there is a "Local Settings" subfolder. I don't
know if OE puts its message store under that path since I long ago moved
it to another drive (so when I wipe and reinstall the OS partition then
I don't lose my data or have to restore it). That will point to where
are the .dbx files that you can copy elsewhere; however, you will be
saving all messages in those files. You say that you want to save
*some* messages, so why not use File -> Export to pick a particular
folder to save? Or use the File -> Save As menu to save just one
message at a time? You can even select one, or more, mails and then
drag them out of OE onto the desktop or into Explorer.

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"Pop Aye" <lost@sea.org> wrote in message
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I usually keep a folder on the desktop named "outlook express" then it is
just a matter of highlighting one or more emails and dragging a copy of the
email into that folder.

Bob

Bob B wrote:

Bob. Please stop putting the sig delimiter at the top of your replies.

It goes down here at the bottom, like mine.

-- <--------------- here!
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

"Pop Aye" <lost@sea.org> wrote in message
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You are looking for the "Local Settings" folder which is hidden by default.
But locating the *.dbx files will not allow you to save individual emails.

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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I have checked my email and cant find any signature on it (I have been
deleting it before I send) or are you referring to the "--" and if so how
did you spot it ?

Bob

"Bob B" <boobbby@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Even better!! I have just spotted and ticked the box that stops my sig being
entered whilst replying

Bob B wrote:

The dashdash was there in plain sight at the beginning of your post.

You do not have to stop using a sig. What you need to do is tell your
newsreader to place the sig at the *bottom* of the reply, not at the
top. I don't know if that is possible with OE. You could add OE-Quotefix
which may help. Or you might consider a better newsreader.

Note that a proper sig delimiter is: "-- "
or: dash dash space return
on one line by itself, such as what follows this line below.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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I had never come across a "delimiter" before or even knew what it meant. I
have now looked it up and see what you mean. I didn't even realise I had
left the dash dash. Us uneducated can always learn !!

Bob B wrote:

Ok, great. Now all you have to remember is to trim out the sigs of
others when you reply, as OE isn't smart enough to do that for you. I
left mine, above, here for illustration.

Real newsreaders don't have this problem. <g>
http://40tude.com/dialog/ for example, which is what I use.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Or if he'd prefer to stick with OE, the QuoteFix add-on you suggested in a
previous post will do nicely. Among other things there are options to;

- Move sig to bottom
- Strip quoted signature
- Fix existing OE quotes
- Ignore HTML messages
- Ignore font styles
- Ignore emoticons

Respondant wrote:

Yes. I could have provided a link, eh?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4029.html

...though haven't I read somewhere that it has problems with, or doesn't
support, OE / XP SP2 ? Are you using it with XP?

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Ooops. I suppose I could have as well. :-)

Don't know where you read that, but I've been using it for years now. With
OE/XP sp1 and 2. It integrates seamlessly, and performs almost flawlessly
day in and day out.

The only little glitch I've noticed is that once in a great while, it will
simply terminate without warning, and for no apparent reason. But it
happens so infrequently that I haven't even bothered to try to figure out
why. And I also don't know if that's relative to using it in conjunction
with XP, or if that sort of thing also occurs if you're running earlier
versions of Windows / OE.

On the rare ocasion that it *does* happen, all I have to do to get it going
again is to close, and then reopen OE, since I have it set to, "Depend on
OE".

The good thing about it though (if you can call it good) is that it doesn't
break OE when it unexpectedly terminates. You can still send/receive mail
and newsgroup posts, you just lose the formatting that QuoteFix provides
until you exit and restart.

Respondant wrote:

Somewhere on Usenet. ;-) It was a few months ago, and I don't remember
what group. (Someone else was also complaining about lack of updates by
the author.)

It may have been a reference to this page;
http://www.insideoe.com/resources/tools.htm
Scroll down a bit to the OE-Quotefix section.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Are you referring to this?;
============
"Warning for WinXP Service Pack 2 users!

OE-QuoteFix uses external files to color quoted material and to replace
emoticons with icons. After installing WinXP SP2, OE is configured by
default to block automatic downloads of external content. That means the
coloring and icons features in OE-QuoteFix will not work. If you wish to use
these features, you must disable the block in OE under Tools| Options|
Security.

Furthermore, SP2 makes changes in OE's Read all messages in plain text
feature. Instead of using an IE control, it now uses the RichEdit control.
OE-QuoteFix will not function at all if you enable the plain text feature in
OE under Tools| Options| Read."

============

The first paragraph does not apply to me as I have no use for coloring
and/or icons.

As to the second part? I just tried it both ways, and the only difference I
can (briefly) determine between having the "read all messages in plain text"
box ticked, or unticked in OE, is that I can no longer see file attachments
in binary groups if it's ticked.

Regardless, QuoteFix still functions.

Respondant wrote:

Probably... ;-)

That's good. If we could only get the word out to all OE users...

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Respondant wrote:

I think it is a memory leak or cache or buffer overrun problem. I tune
it out by combining the configuration in the Advanced 'Depend on OE'
checked -- which function is to "Select this option if you want
OE-QuoteFix to be closed as soon as Outlook Express is closed. It helps
save system resources and is generally recommended." -- combined with
periodically closing OE when a 'bunch of stuff' begins to accumulate in
the window of the log list in the main dialog display.

That is, I don't actually 'judge' the content of the loglist in the QF
dialog window, I just periodically close OE&QF so it can get itself
emptied or straightened out. Sometimes it will warn that it is getting
'full' by failing to perform something properly, like message
reformatting or moving the sig to the bottom.


--
Mike Easter