Outlook Express message database

Hi all,
After moving my Utilities folder (which contains the OE database) to an external hard disk, and then moving it back again (had to free up some space temporarily), Outlook Express starts as if for the first time: no preferences set, and what's worse, no messages in the Inbox and Sent Item folders.
The messages, all 1 GB of them, are still in Utilities: Documents: Microsoft User Data: Identities. I just can't get Outlook E to find them.
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions or shared experiences. If I've lost my e-mail archives I'm up the creek...
Tomas
Pismo Mac OS 9.1.x

Hi, Tomas -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Outlook Express expects its database files to be in one of two places.
In cases where an older version of OE was updated to 5.x, they may be in an Identities folder in the Outlook Express application folder (where the older versions kept them).
Otherwise, OE expects them to be here - (hard drive) >> Documents >> Microsoft User Data >> Identities. In the Identities folder should be at least one folder, Main Identity - that's the default account (identity). If additional accounts have been made, there will be additional folders in the Identities folder, one for each account.
OS 9 does not like having the Documents folder inside any other folder, and will usually create a new Documents folder if an existing one has been moved elsewhere.
If OS 9 has created a new Documents folder, move the Microsoft User Data folder into it. Any folder by the same name in the new Documents folder should not contain any old info, so replacing it should not cause any problems.
If OS 9 did not create a new Documents folder, try moving the old one out of the Utilities folder, so that the Documents folder is at the root level of the drive (same level as the System Folder and the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder). Then restart, and try OE again.
You may need to rebuild the desktop - not a bad thing to do when a lot of files have been moved around, or after installing a bunch of stuff.
Note - although OS 9 and many of its programs (MS apps, AppleWorks, etc.) use the Documents folder for some of their support files, you do not need to use that folder for the documents you create.

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