I've got a client that wants a new feature added to his backup program I've created for him. In all my AMS years, I haven't had the need to work with the registry (as it scares the you-know-what out of me). Now, I'm getting the impression, in order to accomplish an Outlook Express backup, that I'll have to.
I've already started searching through the forums for some work-arounds, but off-hand, does anyone know how to get a list of the OE folders and their content reliably? Similarly, I'll have to insert those emails back, once the user does a restore. This will be for a general market application, so it would have to employ a method that would work across the board platform-wise.
Sorry to hand this off to the group, but this is kinda a tricky element for me. I did this manually once by finding the OE folder and physically dragging the old content to the new one, but alas, MS seems to have a dynamically-named folder that wouldn't seem to stable to rely on name-wise or cross-platform-wise ("1039444909xx-03934" is hardly a rock... lol). Anyone know of a solid solution?
Thanks in advance! You guys rock.
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I've already started searching through the forums for some work-arounds, but off-hand, does anyone know how to get a list of the OE folders and their content reliably? Similarly, I'll have to insert those emails back, once the user does a restore. This will be for a general market application, so it would have to employ a method that would work across the board platform-wise.
Sorry to hand this off to the group, but this is kinda a tricky element for me. I did this manually once by finding the OE folder and physically dragging the old content to the new one, but alas, MS seems to have a dynamically-named folder that wouldn't seem to stable to rely on name-wise or cross-platform-wise ("1039444909xx-03934" is hardly a rock... lol). Anyone know of a solid solution?
Thanks in advance! You guys rock.
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