On 03.01.2013 08:40, Walter Bright wrote:
The most miserable of all is Microsoft Outlook Express, which stores all the info in hidden directories that are down a long chain of paths filled with directory names that are GUID identifiers. Then, the mail files themselves are in some secret binary format.
I hate OE, it uses a single file for each mail folder, and when this file gets bigger than 2GB (easily possible for the inbox folder and a few years of email with attachments), it cannot open it anymore. So what does is do? It creates a new empty file with the same name, nuking all your emails.
And then when you buy Office to get Outlook, it cannot import emails from OE!
I easily lost a week when I had to deal with this on my mother's pc... -- Marco Nembrini
