{"id":532,"date":"2004-12-14T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/restoring-data-in-outlook-express.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-16T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T11:20:56","slug":"restoring-data-in-outlook-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/restoring-data-in-outlook-express.htm","title":{"rendered":"Restoring data in Outlook Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110373031115792168-->I don&#8217;t use Outlook Express personally, but I recently rebuilt my father-in-law&#8217;s PC and imported his settings from the old disk. I didn&#8217;t have a clue where Outlook Express stored its data, but came across an article on the iOpus website about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iopus.com\/guides\/oe-backup.htm\">backing up Outlook Express<\/a>. 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