that was it. mozilla was telling me where the mail was stored, but windows2k wasn't letting me see the directories. thank you microsoft for protecting me from myself...
dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Dave Wilson wrote: > > > I keep a Windows machine for my gf and I to use for mail, news, etc, > > and every few months I wipe it and reinstall to get rid of all the > > accumulated > > junk. Except this time she is using 6.2 and I cannot find her mail folders > > anywhere. I've saved off her address book (using Dawn) and bookmarks, > > but she wants to keep her mail, too. The Windows box is getting really > > flakey, and I want to reinstall, but can't until I save the mail. Where is > > it? > > > What version of windows are you using? You may not be finding it > because it is in a hidden directory. In windows 2000 by default, it's > in c:\documents and settings\<login name>\Application > Data\Mozilla\Users50\default\<random number>.slt\Mail > > Other versions of windows have it in similar, but different places. If > it's win98 check to see if it's in the same directory as the profiles. >
