AOL saved email is where??

[techs]

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.

[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

[techs]

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

[geoscomp]

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

[techs]

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.

[NooNoo]

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

[techs]

So much for AOL privacy then

And so long to the files. I didn't save the All Users folders.

[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?

[techs]

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?

[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.