How to Restore Locally-saved AOL email

To recover mail and other AOL data from a "Saved on My PC" copy:

•Log on to AOL with your screen name at least once to create the user mail
profile, then make sure AOL is not currently running.

•Search your computer for a file called "(your AOL screen name).abi".
•If your screen name is "myscreenname", for example, search for a file called "myscreenname.abi".
•You should find it in a folder called organize under "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.1\organize", although some variation in the path has been noticed from time-to-time.

•Go up one directory, to the C_America Online 9.1 folder.
•For other versions of AOL, the folder name may be different. In any case, go up one directory from the organize folder.
•Rename the organize folder "organize.save".
•Go up another directory.
•Open the folder containing the backup copy of your old organize folder in a new Explorer window.
•Highlight the backup organize folder.
•Press Ctrl-C.
•Switch to the AOL folder window.
•Highlight C-America Online 9.1 or whatever the folder containing the organize.save folder is called on your system.
•Press Ctrl-V.
•Log on to AOL.
•If everything is back in place, delete the organize.save folder.

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