Outhouse Express

[Mr Larrington]

The Thought Police here have a New Policy, viz. no personal data on the internal drive of one's desktop Babbage-Engine.  Having purchased one of they USB Flash Sticky Things, I have successfully copied most of my Stuffs.  Onto it.

However, Outhouse Excess¹ steadfastly refuses to let me change the location of the store folder to the Sticky Thing.   Am I being spectacularly thick² or is it all Microsith's fault?

1 - To keep personal Babbage-Posts and newsfroups separate from work stuff
2 - I do not wish to hear comments such as "use Thunderbird" or "use Linux", as the Thought Police will not sanction such things

[nuttycyclist]

<rummages in drawer for Larrington translator>

I think you're trying to run outlook express but with all data being written to USB?

I think the default location for files is <user profile directory>Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{long random number}

If you search the registry for that number you find
HKCU\identities\{random number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Store Root

Have you tried changing that to be your USB key location?   

[tiermat]

The Thought Police

Damn your eyes, man.  Everytime you (or someone else) uses that phrase I end up singing the song all afternoon....

Could be worse I suppose, could be Agadoo

[Charlotte]

You could just view your POP3 mail from somewhere online instead?

[Greenbank]

You could just view your POP3 mail from somewhere online instead?

...and use Google Groups.

*runs away very fast*

[Biggsy]

However, Outhouse Excess¹ steadfastly refuses to let me change the location of the store folder to the Sticky Thing.

What happens when you try (via Tools - Options - Maintenance - Store Folder)?

I guess you might need your Sticky Thing always plugged in whenever you have OE running.

[Mr Larrington]

<rummages in drawer for Larrington translator>

I think you're trying to run outlook express but with all data being written to USB?

I think the default location for files is <user profile directory>Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{long random number}

'tis the location of the .DBX files which I want to change.  As Biggsy said, one can, in Outhouse Excess, click Tools...Options...Maintenance...Store Folder and tell it where to put them.  With this I have managed to sneak them onto another partition, but suspect that the Thought Police will have thought of that if/when they decide to nuke standardise everyone's internal hard drives.  Also I am utterly ignorant things like The Registry, as Proper Operating Systems¹ don't have one.

On second examination this option doesn't appear to like any of the network drives either, though Full-Fat Outhouse does let me put Personal Folders on a notwork drive.  I may have to resort to subterfuge, or at least a scheduled DOS batch job to copy the .DBX files on a regular basis.

1 - VMS