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Can't Change Message Store to a Mapped Drive in Outlook Express

Hello, folks,

I've got a client with a laptop running XP Pro, OE 6. I've just joined the laptop to the company's domain. I want to set up his Outlook Express to save messages to a location on the server. He has a home directory on the server (U:) and a directory called Mail. I copied all the pertinent .dbx files over to this directory. However, when I go into Tools ->Maintenance -> Change Store, the only options I can choose which don't gray out the OK button are all locations on the local hard drive.

Can someone help? PLEEEASE?

Thanks.

Charlie T.

Bartender_1

Hi charlietou,
Outlook Express doesn't provide the option to keep the message store on a network storage area.
Outlook does, but that feature is not available in Outlook Express.
You could try using a logoff script that copies all of the local DBX files to a server share if you want this for backup purposes.

Hope this helps!

:o)

Bartender_1

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charlietou

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Thanks, folks,

I thought with Bartender that it just might not be possible, but sunray, your tip actually works. :-) I've been testing with a couple of messages, and so far it seems to be working fine.

For anyone's future reference, the registry hack can make a network drive location possible.

Thanks again,

Charlie T.

sunray_2003

Great it works for you

SR.

scottcalifornia

SunRay- IT WORKS!!!! Awesome!

Change the StoreRoot value under this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<long hex GUID representing a user>\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0

i.e., in my case, Q:\Scott's Documents\OutlookExpress

Next time you open OE, it starts up with that message store (if there's already one there)

-Scott