Move Email to Storage Card in WM6 / WM6.1

[0100010]

!! I would recommend against performing this hack at this time. It is not working 100% at the moment. Will update when I learn more. !!

I had used this hack in the past in WM5 :

Quote by whitie_bear
AHA I FINALLY GOT THE EMAIL ON THE STORAGE CARD WORKING CORRECTLY

first off the location to make the new string is correct as in his directions

[ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI ]

But heres the important part, YOU DONT MAKE NEW KEYS, YOU MAKE A NEW STRING!!!!, now the first string you make please title the exact way i have it here

AttachPath

&

PropertyPath

Now like i said those are strings you make not keys, and theres no quotes or equal symbols, now each strings value is where you put the link, and again you dont use the equals signs, so AttachPaths value is

\Storage Card\MAPI\Attachments

Now note on my card instead of making the directory MAPI, i made one called Email with a folder inside that called Attachements so the AttachPath string value for me is

\Storage Card\Email\Attachments

and my PropertyPath string value is

\Storage Card\Email

there now its all done, strings not keys, and what he had in quotes was the string title/name and what he had following the = is the actual value, you dont enter the quotes or the equals sign!!!!

now move your emails to the card, delete them from your \windows\messaging folders and tada your good to go... reboot just to be safe

But, for this to work in WM6 / WM6.1, you need to do the following:

Create a folder on your Storage Card (I used "Email")
Create a sub folder under it (I used "Attachments")

Edit the registry at

\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings

Create two new Strings

Name: AttachPath
Value: \Storage Card\Email\Attachments

Name: PropertyPath
String: \Storage Card\Email

Copy the contents of \Windows\Messaging to \Storage Card\Email

Copy the contents of \Windows\Messaging\Attachments to \Storage Card\Email\Attachments

Reboot

Confirm your existiting messages are still available
Send / receive an email or two, confirm they are visble / works normally

Delete the contents of \Windows\Messaging and \Windows\Messaging\Attachments to save space

Thats it

EDIT : If this a dup, I apologize. I blindly followed the WM5 move email hack on my Q9C and only noticed today (after a couple weeks that the Email folder on my Storage Card was empty). Had to hunt around to figure this out for 6.1.

[rudeboy]

the "old" method did work in 6.0, I know I did it.

potQ9c

[rudeboy]

ps. but thanks... I was thinking about doing the email hack..

potQ9c

[0100010]

Hmm, not sure why it did not for me? I got the 9C, made all my "normal" regedits, setup WirelessSync and used it for about 4 days. Then master reset, upgraded to 6.1 using the leaked ROM (only days before it was released officially, ha), re-did all my edits / reinstalled apps and noticed earlier today the email folder on the card was empty.

Perhaps it is just 6.1 that is different...

[0100010]

Getting some strange behavior - messages show, but I do not get the body of the emails now. Let me keep playing with it for a while...

[0100010]

Still playing with it. Seems I have the lost the bodys for the existing emails in my inbox, new messages come in fine. But, regardless of storing the messages on the card or on the phone, the new .mpb and .att files still default to the phone.

I'm thinking it may have something to do with wirelesssync, not sure yet.

If you are willing to possibly lose your emails currently stored on the phone, give this hack a try - see if it behaves any differently for you.

If you would rather play it safe until all the kinks can be worked out, make no changes.

I m curious if this works for anyone else though.

[jameson]

heads up!

http://www.everythingq.com/forum/mot...oes-26649.html

might cause some problems on 6.1 with cache and email to storage card hack.

[SLKStang]

I don't get it.. I made the change and yet I'm still saving to the system memory. Filling it up quick too. Anyone figure out how to get it to work?

-- Steve

[crashdau]

I don't get it.. I made the change and yet I'm still saving to the system memory. Filling it up quick too. Anyone figure out how to get it to work?

-- Steve

I use these instructions since upgrading to WM6.0 Works everytime I think because it is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

[TreeFrog]

I use these instructions since upgrading to WM6.0 Works everytime I think because it is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

good point crash! Big-D's instructions give the HKLM also for WM6+....which is the hack I followed and has never failed.