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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (75376)	7/6/2001 3:08:08 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

"..and load from there?" This is not an issue of "load". Things are much more complicated these days. The Windows environment is called "integrated", which means that all applications and data files and structures must be registered with the system via couple of INI files and MS Registry. All your e-mail structures must be in certain directory trees, DLLs must be registered and placed in proper ways. During original installation, all this is taken care by huge "install" or "setup" scripts and programs. It is not easy just to "load" your old data from another drive or network unless it was initially set up in this way, and usually it was not. Gene raised a very important problem. MS sucks. - Ali