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Need Help to Find Files in Wins 8
On 1/14/2014 8:12 AM, Silver Slimer wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message ... On 1/13/2014 7:19 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: "BillW50" wrote in message ... On 1/13/2014 5:39 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: The closest thing to Outlook Express nowadays is Windows Live Mail. It's part of the Windows Live Essentials, along with a desktop version of SkyDrive and definitely worth the download. Oh man! I have Windows Live Essentials on most of my Windows 7 and 8 machines and it is awful. You can't even select multiple newsgroups and right click and perform options. TB doesn't either. I dunno understand why software has to go from bad to worse as time goes on? Because the most vocal users of technology are the ones who demand that everything be simplified. Power users don't demand change and generally adapt to whatever is being offered. However, the incredibly stupid users always want programs to remove the more complex feature and slim everything down only to what's required and/or most used. I want to disagree, but I having a hard time trying too. Well many GUI applications at first were total crap and got better. How about that? Some do, but generally the mass of idiots wins. If a program has too many features, it's actually deemed too complex rather than being praised for its large number of features and developers purposely make it simpler. There are a lot more imbeciles in the world than there are intelligent people and they are much louder as well. It doesn't matter that the professionals using the software did not request any such change. Developers believe that those complaining ARE the professionals and as such make the software simpler, essentially ****ing off those who want the features. Sadly there is a lot of truth in what you say. :-( -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Professional |
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Need Help to Find Files in Wins 8
"DianeLeMasson" wrote in message ... 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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DianeLeMasson said on 1/14/2014 4:33 PM: "DianeLeMasson" wrote in message ... 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com OEClassic, since it's downloadable and installable on any OS of Windows XP thru Win 8, is thus the same program. And thus I would venture uses the same everything. Granted there are varying differences from XP to 8. XP=C:\documents and Settings\yourname..... where win8 is C:\users\yourname.......... In win 8 if you open the desktop, the taskbar maybe 2nd icon is like a folder, that's windows explorer of course, and opening it in the upper right corner is a search box. First pick the C:\ drive, then pick the view tab and make sure "hidden items" is checked. Then you can type *.dbx in the search box and let it rip. Windows 7/8 puts some files for apps in C:\users\yourname\appdata folder. Appdata is hidden and a good number of searchings will not look in those folders. PS, you can manually search there, I find all sorts of data files for Thunderbird email, Firefox browser, Chrome browser etc all dump in there. Good luck. |
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Big Al said on 1/14/2014 4:45 PM: DianeLeMasson said on 1/14/2014 4:33 PM: "DianeLeMasson" wrote in message ... 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com 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 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com OEClassic, since it's downloadable and installable on any OS of Windows XP thru Win 8, is thus the same program. And thus I would venture uses the same everything. Granted there are varying differences from XP to 8. XP=C:\documents and Settings\yourname..... where win8 is C:\users\yourname.......... In win 8 if you open the desktop, the taskbar maybe 2nd icon is like a folder, that's windows explorer of course, and opening it in the upper right corner is a search box. First pick the C:\ drive, then pick the view tab and make sure "hidden items" is checked. Then you can type *.dbx in the search box and let it rip. Windows 7/8 puts some files for apps in C:\users\yourname\appdata folder. Appdata is hidden and a good number of searchings will not look in those folders. PS, you can manually search there, I find all sorts of data files for Thunderbird email, Firefox browser, Chrome browser etc all dump in there. Good luck. I take back the comment about "same program" in the first paragraph. I didn't read your post properly and see that your changed from OE to OEClassic. OEClassic says it uses a generic format for files. And since you change programs it's then up for grabs where it puts them. I still favor Appdata though. |
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On 1/14/2014 3:33 PM, DianeLeMasson wrote:
Thank you everyone who have responded. Sorry not responding but have been sick with the flu. Sorry to hear that, it seems it is hitting some really hard. Hope it ends very soon. 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. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Professional |
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On 14 Jan 2014, Big Al wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8: 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. I checked OE Classic out a couple of months ago. It seemed to me that be rather buggy, and it was missing at least one very important featu it has no filtering capability of any kind. Maybe they will add it later. |
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On 1/14/2014 4:13 PM, Nil wrote:
On 14 Jan 2014, Big wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-8: 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. I checked OE Classic out a couple of months ago. It seemed to me that be rather buggy, and it was missing at least one very important featu it has no filtering capability of any kind. Maybe they will add it later. You knew about this one and never mentioned anything? And how did you hear about it? -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Professional |
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On 14 Jan 2014, BillW50 wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8: You knew about this one and never mentioned anything? And how did you hear about it? I didn't mention it because it was crappy. Seems to be slightly less crappy now. Maybe that's a trend. |
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On 1/14/2014, DianeLeMasson posted:
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. I definitely forgive you your terminology problem - it's a challenge in any field, technical, sports, whatever :-) But you do have export and import reversed. Export sends the data away from the program (note the prefix "ex"), and import brings it into the other program (note the prefix "im"; in Latin, "im" is a form of "in" when it's next to a "p"). -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On 14/01/2014 10:21 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
You don't have to pay for it. There are several free (text-only) news servers: eternal-september.org and aioe.org are both good. I checked aioe.org a while back but there was a 25-post limit on it which I considered pretty lame. Eternal-september doesn't seem to have one at all. Bah, the 10$ a month isn't so bad when you realize that it allows you to download all sorts of junk anonymously. -- Silver Slimer If you like the software, buy it. If it's free, donate. |
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"Silver Slimer" wrote in message ... On 14/01/2014 10:21 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: You don't have to pay for it. There are several free (text-only) news servers: eternal-september.org and aioe.org are both good. I checked aioe.org a while back but there was a 25-post limit on it which I considered pretty lame. Eternal-september doesn't seem to have one at all. Bah, the 10$ a month isn't so bad when you realize that it allows you to download all sorts of junk anonymously. I used to pay monthly for newsgroups but I now I prefer to buy a block (180 GB/ $25) from Astraweb. I find it's much cheaper for me as I'm only a relatively light user. (I paid $25 in August 2011 and I've only used 60 GB.) |
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Nil said on 1/14/2014 5:46 PM: On 14 Jan 2014, BillW50 wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-8: You knew about this one and never mentioned anything? And how did you hear about it? I didn't mention it because it was crappy. Seems to be slightly less crappy now. Maybe that's a trend. Pro or free version. From reading I see "features" referred to that are not available in the free version. But it's not real specific about what? |
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On 14/01/2014 7:20 PM, Dave-UK wrote:
"Silver Slimer" wrote in message ... On 14/01/2014 10:21 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: You don't have to pay for it. There are several free (text-only) news servers: eternal-september.org and aioe.org are both good. I checked aioe.org a while back but there was a 25-post limit on it which I considered pretty lame. Eternal-september doesn't seem to have one at all. Bah, the 10$ a month isn't so bad when you realize that it allows you to download all sorts of junk anonymously. I used to pay monthly for newsgroups but I now I prefer to buy a block (180 GB/ $25) from Astraweb. I find it's much cheaper for me as I'm only a relatively light user. (I paid $25 in August 2011 and I've only used 60 GB.) I'll have to consider cancelling this subscription then. -- Silver Slimer If you like the software, buy it. If it's free, donate. |
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BillW50 wrote, On 1/14/2014 5:09 PM:
On 1/14/2014 3:33 PM, DianeLeMasson wrote: Thank you everyone who have responded. Sorry not responding but have been sick with the flu. Sorry to hear that, it seems it is hitting some really hard. Hope it ends very soon. 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. Possibly a program for the OE lover for the full 'Pro' version at $25. The comparison chart has a few errors (apparently from a lack of understanding or use with respect to WLM in the Message storage, up to date, automatic backup, user support, easily move to new machine. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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DianeLeMasson wrote, On 1/14/2014 4:33 PM:
"DianeLeMasson" wrote in message ... 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com Diane, Thanks for clarifying some of the details. As another poster noted regarding your terminology. Your statement "I imported from OE6 (all .dbx files, folder.dbx) onto a thumb drive. Then exported into (new) OEClassic." Should read... "I **exported** from OE6 (all .dbx files, folder.dbx) onto a thumb drive. Then **imported** into (new) OEClassic." Get well and return when you can. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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