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Microsoft Outlook - Get Currently Loaded Profile Name

How do I get the currently loaded Outlook profile name?

I know how to login to a certain profile, but if another profile is already running, how do I get the name?

Using Delphi 6 Enterprise, Outlook 2000 on Windows 98.

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EdgeMan

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Sorry, I could not find anything there...

Hypoviax

Hi Edgeman,

Did you find the stuff?

Ill have another look if you want

Regards,

Hypoviax

Hypoviax

Have a look here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Outlook\

You may also be able to extract the profile name from a number of settings files:

Copied from http://www.aaauctionservice.com/Toms/OUTLOOK.htm :
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Outcmd.dat - This file stores toolbar and menu settings.

<Profile Name>.fav - This is your Favorites file that includes the settings for the Outlook bar.

<Profile Name>.htm - This file stores the HTML AutoSignature.

<Profile Name>.rtf - This file stores the Rich Text Format AutoSignature.

<Profile Name>.txt - This file stores the Plain Text format AutoSignature.NOTE: If you use Word as your e-mail editor, signatures are stored in the Normal.dot as Autotext entries. This file should be backed up as well.
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Do a search for *.fav to find the location then you can use the function:

extractfilename(pchar(filepath)) to get the filename i.e <Profile Name>.fav. Assign this to a variable i.e profilename. Then use the copy function to get the profilename:

copy(profilename,0,length(profilename)-4)

Use -4 since you want to get rid of the '.fav'

Hope this helps and thanks for the points

Regards,

Hypoviax