trying to recover old AOL PFC's to view much needed saved emails

Please review my responses and then if you have
futher questions, post them:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Q_21260583.html


http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Q_21296056.html

If you simply want to view your old mail:

1. Open your current version of AOL

2. On the upper left, choose File>Open

3. Navigate to AOL's Organize folder (in your AOL directory) and click on the .PFC file with your screenname. (you can right click on any file and choose "properties".. this will tell you if it is a .PFC file if you are unsure).

4. In the dialog box, click "Open"


..you will see your emails and be able to click on each one and open them.

I suggest a split:
Daydreams: http:Q_21339063.html#13469708
LRI41: http:Q_21339063.html#13467492

Sorry for not getting back, have been out of town (work with military).  Anyways, I would give assign the points to Daydreams.  Basically I needed to know where to find the old .pfc files which her response gave me.  After that I found a program on my own that would convert the .pfc into a workable version.  Thank you for the help.

I found a program while I was awaiting a response to my question.  I may have been better off using the program you mentioned above, but the program I found served its purpose.  My biggest problem was not knowing that the .pfc file was still on the computer.  I figured AOL would have saved the emails into a folder under the main AOL folder in program files.  So once it was removed, I assumed they were lost.  Once I was told that AOL doesn't store them there by default, and in a different location, it was just a matter of finding a program that I could use to read the actual emails.  As stated, I found a program while I was awaiting a response, granted the program was a pain in the rear to use, but it did serve its purpose.  I do thank you all for your help.  It was basically Daydreams post of the exact location to the .pfc's that I needed, but  LRI41
post about using a program to convert the .pfc was helpful as well.  So in all fairness, please split points.

If there is another program that can get into theAol propiertary programing and interpret it, rather than
the points, it would have been nice if the name of
the program and the url where you can get it was
posted, for that it my main reason for coming here,
to learn, rather than just for points???

Thanks anyway.

When I get home this evening, I will look up the name of the program and post it in here.  I dont exactly remember where I found it, but I'll try and look it back up again and post a link as well.

Actually looked through my emails where I had registered it.

http://www.fkeeps.com/fmorph/fmindex.htm

ForMorph is the name of the program and it is a message converter.

ForMorph is a program that can convert your mail, newsgroup and Compuserve messages to another format so you can use them directly with - or import them into - other programs.

V/R,
Heath