Need Help to Find Files in Wins 8

Hello Everyone

Still not much better so I haven't been on my computer much, let alone
reading those complicated computer books to learn Wins 8.

Reading through the many pages of infor I printed from all your help with my
issue I found (thanks Big Al) where those .dbx files

for OEClassic are stored. Plus other things I was curious to find.

Big Al your explanation where and how to use 'search' was extremely helpful,
though it didn't show the exact 'path' of where those .dbx files (for
oeclassic) were but it gave me a direction to do so. So doing a happy dance
right now!!

Still digesting the other information you all have provided me, when I feel
better I'm sure I'll have other questions.

As for the Import/Export I see now how I confused/mixed them up. I should
know better, to think before I write.

And thanks for pointing that out to me!

Okay got another problem or least think I do. Don't know if it has anything
to do with this but happened after it was done.

I had Windows 8, hubby updated to 8.1. My browser is IE 11. My homepage is
My Yahoo.

Since this update my homepage will not load completely, only some of it.
I've refresh it many times still won't complete.

I wouldn't care so much but I've personalized it to the way I want it. Don't
have the foggiest idea why going to Wins 8.1

would effect just my homepage. Any ideas? However IE does load completely.

I know this isn't a Wins 8 thing but I've been every where on the internet,
in Yahoo with no results!!!

I find junk nothing pertaining to this issue, not even close!

Once again I would appreciate any help with this problem or a direction to
go.

Thanks! And have a great week end!

Diane LeMasson







"DianeLeMasson" wrote in message
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"DianeLeMasson" wrote in message
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Hi

Just got a new computer with windows 8.
I exported my emails/messages into a different email program, not the one
Wins 8 has included. Works fine.
My question is: How do I find them on this computer/hard drive?
I've read through the help, books, anything I can get my hands on, still
not able to.
It's probably right in my face & not seeing it.
Yes I've unhidden files, if I did this correct in 'search' typed *,dbx,
.dbx & dbx,, nothing!!!
In Wins XP it was so simple to do, search files & folders.

Can some kind person please explain the method of finding it or point me
in the right
direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Diane


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Thank you everyone who have responded.
Sorry not responding but have been sick with the flu.

The computer I'm writing on now is still my PC XP which does have OE6 on
it.
The email program I'm talking about is OEClassic. It has everything OE6
has.

Forgive me if my terminology isn't correct, it's the only way I know.

I imported from OE6 (all .dbx files, folder.dbx) onto a thumb drive.
Then exported into (new) OEClassic. So far very happy with it.
Everything I had in OE6 (XP) went into OEClassic (Wins 8) with no problem.

I email the OEClassic owner, still waiting for their reply.
Meanwhile as I wait I figure I'll get some help with this NG.

Good point about the extension name in this program. Never enter my mind
it
could be different than from OE6.

My real issue is learning how to use Wins 8, getting familiar with what is
in it, where
all my stuff goes. One being since this is my first download, where my
email files, address book are.
So when I couldn't find them no matter what I did I've become focus on
finding where they are.
Maybe obsessive is more like it! lol
In Wins 8 to search for files on the HD is the 'Search' feature within the
charm bar the same as using
'find', 'files & folders'? Cause if it is I'm not having any luck! Or I am
doing it all wrong.

I have to end now, feeling ill. I have printed all your messages & will be
back to answer what I can.
Thank you all for your help!!

Diane





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On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Hello Everyone

Still not much better so I haven't been on my computer much, let
alone reading those complicated computer books to learn Wins 8.

Reading through the many pages of infor I printed from all your help
with my issue I found (thanks Big Al) where those .dbx files

for OEClassic are stored. Plus other things I was curious to find.

Big Al your explanation where and how to use 'search' was extremely
helpful, though it didn't show the exact 'path' of where those .dbx
files (for oeclassic) were but it gave me a direction to do so. So
doing a happy dance right now!!

Still digesting the other information you all have provided me, when
I feel better I'm sure I'll have other questions.

As for the Import/Export I see now how I confused/mixed them up. I
should know better, to think before I write.

And thanks for pointing that out to me!

Okay got another problem or least think I do. Don't know if it has
anything to do with this but happened after it was done.

I had Windows 8, hubby updated to 8.1. My browser is IE 11. My
homepage is My Yahoo.

Since this update my homepage will not load completely, only some of
it. I've refresh it many times still won't complete.

I wouldn't care so much but I've personalized it to the way I want
it. Don't have the foggiest idea why going to Wins 8.1

would effect just my homepage. Any ideas? However IE does load
completely.

(Too many carriage returns!)

What I would do is to look at that page in a different browser, as a
debugging technique. I.e., see how it acts there. It could just be that
your homepage site is temporarily messed up, which a second browser
would tend to verify - or not.

That *does* require installing another browser, which might not be your
idea of fun :-)

The extra ones I have are
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Safari (see remark)

Actually, IE is an extra, since I use Firefox.

Safari remark: the other browsers make it easy (well, possible) to find
their websites; Safari doesn't, and Apple's web site doesn't either. I
gave up.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Hello Everyone

Still not much better so I haven't been on my computer much, let alone
reading those complicated computer books to learn Wins 8.

Reading through the many pages of infor I printed from all your help
with my issue I found (thanks Big Al) where those .dbx files

for OEClassic are stored. Plus other things I was curious to find.

Big Al your explanation where and how to use 'search' was extremely
helpful, though it didn't show the exact 'path' of where those .dbx
files (for oeclassic) were but it gave me a direction to do so. So
doing a happy dance right now!!

Still digesting the other information you all have provided me, when I
feel better I'm sure I'll have other questions.

As for the Import/Export I see now how I confused/mixed them up. I
should know better, to think before I write.

And thanks for pointing that out to me!

Okay got another problem or least think I do. Don't know if it has
anything to do with this but happened after it was done.

I had Windows 8, hubby updated to 8.1. My browser is IE 11. My
homepage is My Yahoo.

Since this update my homepage will not load completely, only some of
it. I've refresh it many times still won't complete.

I wouldn't care so much but I've personalized it to the way I want it.
Don't have the foggiest idea why going to Wins 8.1

would effect just my homepage. Any ideas? However IE does load
completely.

(Too many carriage returns!)

What I would do is to look at that page in a different browser, as a
debugging technique. I.e., see how it acts there. It could just be that
your homepage site is temporarily messed up, which a second browser
would tend to verify - or not.

That *does* require installing another browser, which might not be your
idea of fun :-)

The extra ones I have are
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Safari (see remark)

Actually, IE is an extra, since I use Firefox.

Safari remark: the other browsers make it easy (well, possible) to find
their websites; Safari doesn't, and Apple's web site doesn't either. I
gave up.


I'll use this, just to get a baseline.

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/safari/

Safari 5.1.7 May 9, 2012 36.71 MB

Now, I consult the great oracle, looking for 5.1.7, and find this.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1531

I'd heard that Safari was discontinued, and the article here has the detail.
That's why I started with oldversion, just to get a little inspiration.
I really should have started with the Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)

"Safari 5.1.7, released on May 9, 2012, is
the last version available for Windows"

HTH,
Paul

On 1/18/2014, Paul posted:
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Hello Everyone

Still not much better so I haven't been on my computer much, let
alone reading those complicated computer books to learn Wins 8.

Reading through the many pages of infor I printed from all your
help with my issue I found (thanks Big Al) where those .dbx files

for OEClassic are stored. Plus other things I was curious to find.

Big Al your explanation where and how to use 'search' was
extremely helpful, though it didn't show the exact 'path' of where
those .dbx files (for oeclassic) were but it gave me a direction
to do so. So doing a happy dance right now!!

Still digesting the other information you all have provided me,
when I feel better I'm sure I'll have other questions.

As for the Import/Export I see now how I confused/mixed them up. I
should know better, to think before I write.

And thanks for pointing that out to me!

Okay got another problem or least think I do. Don't know if it has
anything to do with this but happened after it was done.

I had Windows 8, hubby updated to 8.1. My browser is IE 11. My
homepage is My Yahoo.

Since this update my homepage will not load completely, only some
of it. I've refresh it many times still won't complete.

I wouldn't care so much but I've personalized it to the way I want
it. Don't have the foggiest idea why going to Wins 8.1

would effect just my homepage. Any ideas? However IE does load
completely.

(Too many carriage returns!)

What I would do is to look at that page in a different browser, as
a debugging technique. I.e., see how it acts there. It could just
be that your homepage site is temporarily messed up, which a second
browser would tend to verify - or not.

That *does* require installing another browser, which might not be
your idea of fun :-)

The extra ones I have are
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Safari (see remark)

Actually, IE is an extra, since I use Firefox.

Safari remark: the other browsers make it easy (well, possible) to
find their websites; Safari doesn't, and Apple's web site doesn't
either. I gave up.


I'll use this, just to get a baseline.

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/safari/

Safari 5.1.7 May 9, 2012 36.71 MB

Now, I consult the great oracle, looking for 5.1.7, and find this.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1531

I'd heard that Safari was discontinued, and the article here has the
detail.
That's why I started with oldversion, just to get a little
inspiration.
I really should have started with the Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)

"Safari 5.1.7, released on May 9, 2012, is
the last version available for Windows"

HTH,
Paul

Thanks. I had thought of that possibility from the evidence cited, but
now it's no longer a guess.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Hi

Thank you for your help.
Gene I don't understand what you mean by too many carriage returns.

As for Firefox I would like to stay away from it. I have it now on my old
Wins XP machine that has given me much grief.
No matter what I've done/tried I can not get it to work properly.
Not even their' fix it' fix the problems. Couldn't remove it either off my
computer.
I believe it started with one of their updates so I'm afraid using it again
with this new one.
Hubby got fed up with me cursing at my pc he bought me a new computer. lol
Has that made me stop cursing, yelling at this one..heck no!
Windows 8 is a whole different learning curve & don't like it!!
Now with the problems I'm having now, this homepage issue, & don't know how
to fix it or where to go for help (but here) I'm just about to throw this
machine out the window!!

On top of this, of all things, this new email program OEClassic, it's
newsgroup capability is
only a reader, can't post to it!! Said, maybe down the road it will be! Oh
heck!
I really don't want to use Window Live but if I'm going to want to continue
having the
newsgroups I'll have to. Unless there is another way, is there?!
Is there a way to have these newsgroups without it being attach to a email
program?
I'll be very upset if I'm told no!
I can live without my homepage but not the NGS!

Again thanks you guys!!

Diane





"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...
On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Hello Everyone

Still not much better so I haven't been on my computer much, let alone
reading those complicated computer books to learn Wins 8.

Reading through the many pages of infor I printed from all your help with
my issue I found (thanks Big Al) where those .dbx files

for OEClassic are stored. Plus other things I was curious to find.

Big Al your explanation where and how to use 'search' was extremely
helpful, though it didn't show the exact 'path' of where those .dbx files
(for oeclassic) were but it gave me a direction to do so. So doing a
happy dance right now!!

Still digesting the other information you all have provided me, when I
feel better I'm sure I'll have other questions.

As for the Import/Export I see now how I confused/mixed them up. I should
know better, to think before I write.

And thanks for pointing that out to me!

Okay got another problem or least think I do. Don't know if it has
anything to do with this but happened after it was done.

I had Windows 8, hubby updated to 8.1. My browser is IE 11. My homepage
is My Yahoo.

Since this update my homepage will not load completely, only some of it.
I've refresh it many times still won't complete.

I wouldn't care so much but I've personalized it to the way I want it.
Don't have the foggiest idea why going to Wins 8.1

would effect just my homepage. Any ideas? However IE does load
completely.

(Too many carriage returns!)

What I would do is to look at that page in a different browser, as a
debugging technique. I.e., see how it acts there. It could just be that
your homepage site is temporarily messed up, which a second browser would
tend to verify - or not.

That *does* require installing another browser, which might not be your
idea of fun :-)

The extra ones I have are
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Safari (see remark)

Actually, IE is an extra, since I use Firefox.

Safari remark: the other browsers make it easy (well, possible) to find
their websites; Safari doesn't, and Apple's web site doesn't either. I
gave up.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)



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On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:04:09 -0500, DianeLeMasson
wrote:


Is there a way to have these newsgroups without it being attach to a
email
program?
I'll be very upset if I'm told no!
I can live without my homepage but not the NGS!

There are several specialty programs just for newsgroups but I believe
that your best bet will still be a lightweight application which includes
email anyway.

I'd stay away from Thunderbird since it's a resource hog like Firefox is.
Windows Live Mail, while supporting Hotmail very well, does not allow you
to automatically post to the bottom in newsgroups which can be irritating
if you're hoping to follow Usenet etiquette. Opera Mail, on the other
hand, is very lightweight, has just the right amount of features and
indeed posts to the bottom. It's worth a shot.
--
Silver Slimer
GNU/Linux is Communism

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:18:02 -0500, "Silver Slimer" wrote:

Agreed. Usenet is essentially dead. The fact that I have to PAY for
newsgroup access on top of paying for my Internet service is evidence that
the protocol is on its way out.

I first paid for Usenet access in 1984. Death comes, but it comes slowly.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:09:11 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/14/2014 3:33 PM, DianeLeMasson wrote:

The computer I'm writing on now is still my PC XP which does have OE6 on it.
The email program I'm talking about is OEClassic. It has everything OE6 has.

Oh my Gawd! You know how long I was wishing for such a program? Thank
you, thank you, thank you for telling us about this gem.

Umm, it's basically OE they're talking about, the second worst email program
ever, second only to WLM. What's to be happy about? Oh, wait, CTRL-H! Sorry.

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:53:30 -0500, "Silver Slimer" wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:04:09 -0500, DianeLeMasson
wrote:


Is there a way to have these newsgroups without it being attach to a
email
program?
I'll be very upset if I'm told no!
I can live without my homepage but not the NGS!

There are several specialty programs just for newsgroups but I believe
that your best bet will still be a lightweight application which includes
email anyway.

I'd stay away from Thunderbird since it's a resource hog like Firefox is.

Modern personal computers have far more resources than most people know what
to do with. I wouldn't shy away from a program that makes use of what is
available to it, assuming it was otherwise desirable.

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:09:11 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/14/2014 3:33 PM, DianeLeMasson wrote:

The computer I'm writing on now is still my PC XP which does have
OE6 on it. The email program I'm talking about is OEClassic. It has
everything OE6 has.

Oh my Gawd! You know how long I was wishing for such a program? Thank
you, thank you, thank you for telling us about this gem.

Umm, it's basically OE they're talking about, the second worst email
program ever, second only to WLM. What's to be happy about? Oh, wait,
CTRL-H! Sorry.

Actually it isn't Outlook Express and it isn't developed by Microsoft.
It is just if you know how to use OE6, then you shouldn't have any
problems with Outlook Express Classic.

And I don't know why you say that OE is the second worse email program?
As I can find messages much faster and follow any subtopic I choose to
with far more speed with OE than anything else out there.

OTOH, Forte Agent isn't very popular among the masses, even when free.
Forte Agent was also very slow at supporting multiple email accounts. Me
personally I don't care much for the look or menu layouts.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
Modern personal computers have far more resources than most people
know what to do with. I wouldn't shy away from a program that makes
use of what is available to it, assuming it was otherwise desirable.

I take it you never ran Windows 7 or 8 on an Atom Z670 processor before?
Programs like Firefox and Thunderbird are incredibly slow on those
machines.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Gene I don't understand what you mean by too many carriage returns.

I meant there were carriage returns at the end of each line of your
text instead of only at the end of each paragraph, so it made for a
messy display at my end.

My reamrk was a bit too terse :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Gene I don't understand what you mean by too many carriage returns.

I meant there were carriage returns at the end of each line of your text
instead of only at the end of each paragraph, so it made for a messy
display at my end.

My reamrk was a bit too terse :-)


Sometimes, the appearance of a person's posting,
is a function of the header directive.

This is from Diane's header.

Format=Flowed; Response

I have no idea what "Response" means. Never seen it before.

The Format Flowed thing, controls automatic formatting.
Perhaps there's an interaction between what she typed,
the header declaration, and what your news client
does in response to Format Flowed.

http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html

To see what she typed, we could do this...

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...%40fx30.iad%3E

and you could compare that to how her message looks in
your news client.

It's too complicated for me to figure out. I'll
let the BlochComputeEngine work on it :-)

Perhaps you could post a tinypic.com or imageshack.us
picture of that portion of the screen ?

Paul

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:34:23 -0600, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
Modern personal computers have far more resources than most people
know what to do with. I wouldn't shy away from a program that makes
use of what is available to it, assuming it was otherwise desirable.

I take it you never ran Windows 7 or 8 on an Atom Z670 processor before?
Programs like Firefox and Thunderbird are incredibly slow on those
machines.

I can't think of a scenario where I'd buy hardware with such an anemic CPU,
relatively speaking.

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:50:53 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/18/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
Gene I don't understand what you mean by too many carriage returns.

I meant there were carriage returns at the end of each line of your text
instead of only at the end of each paragraph, so it made for a messy
display at my end.

My reamrk was a bit too terse :-)


Sometimes, the appearance of a person's posting,
is a function of the header directive.

This is from Diane's header.

Format=Flowed; Response

I have no idea what "Response" means. Never seen it before.

The Format Flowed thing, controls automatic formatting.
Perhaps there's an interaction between what she typed,
the header declaration, and what your news client
does in response to Format Flowed.

http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html

To see what she typed, we could do this...

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...%40fx30.iad%3E

and you could compare that to how her message looks in
your news client.

It's too complicated for me to figure out. I'll
let the BlochComputeEngine work on it :-)

Perhaps you could post a tinypic.com or imageshack.us
picture of that portion of the screen ?

Does your response mean that you didn't see what Gene (and I) saw?