Orphaned accounts

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I went Vista Windows.old and was trying to find an old email. Clicking on the
link I inadvertantly reset my email path, thats another problem I'll have to
fix however, now it's telling me to look for old emails in "Orphaned
Accounts".

Can someone explain for a simple person how to find this account.

Thanks,

Michal
 
Hi, Michal.
I went Vista Windows.old
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What does that mean?
fix however, now it's telling me to look for old emails in "Orphaned
Accounts".
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I got lost on the way to this line, Michal. :>( WHAT is telling you to
look for old emails there? But, if a file or folder named "Orphaned
Accounts" exists anywhere on your Drive C:, this will find it:

Open a Command Prompt window and Run:
dir "C:\Orphaned Accounts" /s /a

This uses the old faithful Dir command from DOS days, when folders were
called directories. the C:\ makes it start in the Root (very top folder) of
Drive C:. The quotes are necessary because there is a space in the
filename, and the quotes must include the entire path; that's why the
opening quote must come before the C:. The /s switch makes Dir search all
subfolders below where we started (the Root), and the /a makes it list ALL
files, even Hidden and System files.

This might take several minutes, especially if you have a large Drive C:
with lots of folders and files, but it the folder is there, this will find
it.

RC
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(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
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