Outlook Express Email Store Root

All your mail, news, folders, etc. are stored in a single folder called the Store Root. Its usual location is C:\Windows\Application Data\Outlook Express\{GUID} where {GUID} is a Global Unique IDentifier that is used to specify an Identity.

Now, here's the good part -- you can change the Store Root folder. What we like to do is put a Mail folder on our Drive D so that the folder remains intact even if the system crashes. To change your folder, first create the new folder. Now run Outlook Express and choose Tools|Options. When the Options dialog box opens, click the Maintenance tab. Click Store Folder and then click Change. Select your new mail folder and click OK. Back in the Options dialog box, click OK.

All your mail will now appear in the new folder.

- Sue Whitehouse

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001