Outlook Express files gone missing

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ProbeOneMusic - 30 Jun 2006 02:55 GMT

I recently experienced some problems with XP, and decided to reinstall.
Before doing so I removed my hard drive and transferred my data onto another
PC as a backup.
However, when searching that hard drive for my .dbx files, the results
returned nothing. EVERY other bit of data I had is still on the drive, except
my .dbx and .wab files.
As is my understanding, they should be on the hard drive under c:\ documents
and settings\USER\local settings\application data\identities... etc. However
this entire USER file from the documents and settings folder seems to have
gone.
Any ideas why this has happened? I presume if a search on the hard drive
reveals no .dbx files then I have lost them regardless, but I thought I'd
check before I format the drive.

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TG Online (MVP) - 30 Jun 2006 08:19 GMT

> I recently experienced some problems with XP, and decided to reinstall.
> Before doing so I removed my hard drive and transferred my data onto another
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> reveals no .dbx files then I have lost them regardless, but I thought I'd
> check before I format the drive.

This newsgroup is for Mac users, so you'd need to ask in the equivalent
Windows group. I'd guess that you probably need to enable a search for
hidden/protected files, which will find your missing content.

Ricky

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Outlook Express files gone missing