AOL saved email is where??

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February 1st, 2007, 01:06 PM
techs

AOL saved email is where??

I copied everything off a Windows XP install to an external drive. The customer had saved some emails in folders she made using AOL 9.0 Security Edition.
I then wiped the drive, did a clean Windows XP install then re-installed AOL 9.0 Optimized (didn't want to put in the Security Edition since she is dropping AOL soon and it was conflicting with other security software).
I am looking to find those old folders somewhere in the data I saved. I even went so far as to create a new folder in her email in the new install with a unique name, hoping if I searched for it, then I would see the location and then know where AOL was saving mail. I can't find that folder or file searching by the name.
Does anyone know where the AOL saved folders on AOL 9.0 are? Or at least the file extension or folder name so I can find them in the saved data?
If you need any more info to help me, just ask.
Thanks in advance.
February 1st, 2007, 01:18 PM
geoscomp

If she was using AOL the normal way, the folders are on the aol server, not her computer..if she was using imap protocol and outlook express to atually save the files on her own computer, they should be in *.dbx files, and would have to be imported to outlook express to get them. If she wasn't using outlook express, then simply logging in to her aol account should open all her folders
February 1st, 2007, 02:07 PM
techs

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Originally Posted by geoscomp

If she was using AOL the normal way, the folders are on the aol server, not her computer..if she was using imap protocol and outlook express to atually save the files on her own computer, they should be in *.dbx files, and would have to be imported to outlook express to get them. If she wasn't using outlook express, then simply logging in to her aol account should open all her folders

Yeah, thats what I thought but she is saying they are saved on her computer.
However, a few months back I did a similiar install and I did find saved mailbox files. For some reason .snm springs to mind. I had called AOL at that time and they told me where to find the saved files.
I will investigate further. thanks
February 1st, 2007, 04:52 PM
geoscomp

Could be, but I think *.snm was a netscape mail file
February 4th, 2007, 05:13 PM
techs

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Originally Posted by geoscomp

Could be, but I think *.snm was a netscape mail file

Yeah, you are right.
I did figure it out. They were saved, in of ALL places, the ALL users folder.
February 5th, 2007, 04:50 AM
NooNoo

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Originally Posted by techs

Yeah, you are right.
I did figure it out. They were saved, in of ALL places, the ALL users folder.

So much for AOL privacy then :rolleyes:
February 8th, 2007, 02:11 PM
techs

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Originally Posted by NooNoo

So much for AOL privacy then :rolleyes:

And so long to the files. I didn't save the All Users folders.:wave:
February 8th, 2007, 02:17 PM
CCT

But, but, at the very start here you said "I copied everything off a Windows XP install to an external drive."

They hafta be there don't they?
February 8th, 2007, 06:47 PM
techs

Quote:

Originally Posted by CCT

But, but, at the very start here you said "I copied everything off a Windows XP install to an external drive."

They hafta be there don't they?

Well, I actually should have been more specific.
Who would have thought they were in All Users?
February 8th, 2007, 07:47 PM
CCT

Hey - if someone reading learned that a 'copy/backup' process should copy/backup 'EVERYTHING' then it was a worthwhile post.

It is always the simple things that get past us.