- ~ workaround
- Posted by Don C on December 31st, 2003
from
http://asknick.com/RNews.php
Changing where Outlook Express saves the tilde ("~") file
Find the shortcut to Outlook Express and right-click on it
Click on Properties
Make sure Read-only is unchecked on the General tab
Click on the Shortcut tab
In the "Start In" field, change it to an alternative path where the
tilde file will appear, for example "C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express\address book backup"
(I added the last part, created a new folder called "address book
backup")
It works, no more ~ on desktop and the backups get saved.
-Don
- Posted by pcbutts1 on December 31st, 2003
Or just run windows update. The fix has been post for a while now.
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- Posted by Brian H¹© on December 31st, 2003
pcbutts1 said:
It still happens to me, and I am up-to-date with the patches for the patches.
- Posted by Don C on December 31st, 2003
same here.
- Posted by Ralph Wade Phillips on December 31st, 2003
Howdy!
"pcbutts1" <pcbutts1@yawhoo.com> wrote in message
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(in re: the spurious ~ file that's a backup of the Outlook Express
address book showing up)
Which fix is that? I'm up to date, and !I! get it also ...
RwP
- Posted by philo on December 31st, 2003
"Don C" <donc@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Thank you! It worked great!
That "~" problem was cured on my *win98* machine that did have the
updates applied.
I noticed that with *XP*, the Microsoft Updates did get rid of the "~"
on the desktop
- Posted by Brian H¹© on December 31st, 2003
philo said:
You are only looking at what you can see, have a little search of your system
and see if you can find a copy in My Documents, Oe-QuoteFix (if you have/use it)
directly under C:\ , or in any other location on your hard drive.
If there is already a copy in the first location it tries to save the file ~ to,
it will save it somewhere else.
- Posted by Don C on December 31st, 2003
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- Posted by philo on January 1st, 2004
desktop!
- Posted by Brian H¹© on January 1st, 2004
philo said:
Glad that got cleared up ;-)
