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My wife's company is getting a new executive director and they think it
reasonable that he be able to access the old ED's saved emails.

Can they just set up a TB account (this is Windows XP) and copy the
contents of the old ED's saved folders to the new guy's account, or is
it more complicated than that?

Pete Holsberg wrote:
> My wife's company is getting a new executive director and they think it
> reasonable that he be able to access the old ED's saved emails.
>
> Can they just set up a TB account (this is Windows XP) and copy the
> contents of the old ED's saved folders to the new guy's account, or is
> it more complicated than that?

by account, you mean an email account, or a new TB profile? If email,
then just copy all the mail files [except the msf ones] from the old one
over to the new one.

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo produced the following on 2/3/2007 4:50 PM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:

> > My wife's company is getting a new executive director and they
> > think it reasonable that he be able to access the old ED's saved
> > emails.
> >
> > Can they just set up a TB account (this is Windows XP) and copy the
> > contents of the old ED's saved folders to the new guy's account,
> > or is it more complicated than that?
>
> by account, you mean an email account, or a new TB profile? If email,
> then just copy all the mail files [except the msf ones] from the old
> one over to the new one.

Good question. As I always use one profile per account, I can't say
whether adding a profile to an existing account would be better or worse
than creating a new (email) account.

I think it has to be a new account because the email address for the new
guy will be different from the old guy's.

As the account holder will already have Inbox, etc., do I need to be
careful not to overwrite the new ED's files with the outgoing ED's files
having the same names?

Pete Holsberg wrote:
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo produced the following on 2/3/2007 4:50 PM:
>> Pete Holsberg wrote:
/snip/
>
> Good question. As I always use one profile per account, I can't say
> whether adding a profile to an existing account would be better or worse
> than creating a new (email) account.
>
> I think it has to be a new account because the email address for the new
> guy will be different from the old guy's.
>
> As the account holder will already have Inbox, etc., do I need to be
> careful not to overwrite the new ED's files with the outgoing ED's files
> having the same names?
>

Change the names of the files. OldInbox, instead of Inbox, for example.
This will keep the new guy's email separate from the outgoing guy's.

Lee

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Leonidas Jones produced the following on 2/3/2007 8:21 PM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
> > Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo produced the following on 2/3/2007
> > 4:50 PM:

> >> Pete Holsberg wrote:

> /snip/

> > Good question. As I always use one profile per account, I can't say
> > whether adding a profile to an existing account would be better or
> > worse than creating a new (email) account.
> >
> > I think it has to be a new account because the email address for
> > the new guy will be different from the old guy's.
> >
> > As the account holder will already have Inbox, etc., do I need to
> > be careful not to overwrite the new ED's files with the outgoing
> > ED's files having the same names?
> >
>
> Change the names of the files. OldInbox, instead of Inbox, for
> example. This will keep the new guy's email separate from the
> outgoing guy's.

Simple enough!! Thanks.

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