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123924 2003-02-25 21:12:00 How can I move messages from outlook express to a hard drive? All that I can do is save it into outlooks program. I want to set up a folder to keep messages in on a hard drive

Alan R. 		rutherford (1880)
123925 2003-02-25 21:16:00 Open up OE, and go Tools
-Options
Click on the Maintenance Tab up the top

Click on Outlook Store Folder, or something similar (Going from memory here sorry).

It will give you the location of all your Email messages.

Now, go find that folder in My Computer, and copy it to a second location (Dont delete it or cut/paste it coz it NEEDS to be there!)

That's now backed up your messages, ready for burning to backup or just keeping locally :-)

You mail is always stored locally unless you set it to leave the mail onthe server, however this is not chosen by default. I wasnt too sure what you were after, as the messages are all downloaded and stored to your HDD anyway :-)

There are files named something like:
Inobx.dbx
outbox.dbx
stuff like that, those are your mail folders... If youre doing a backup, then its probably a good idea to clear your Delete Messages folder first, coz otherwise you're backing up probably oldmessages you dont want and they can start taking up a lot of HDD space :-)


Hope this helps


Chilling_Silence 		Chilling_Silence (9)
123926 2003-02-26 07:46:00 Hi Alan

When you have an e-mail open choose File > Save As This lets you save the message anywhere you like. You can choose to save the file as an e-mail, plain text, or Unicode text.

Hope this helps

oldfart 		oldfart (3118)
123927 2003-02-26 08:30:00 Alan, if you are wanting to move all your OE email messages out of Outlook Express into a folder onto your hard drive you can do it either Chill's way or oldfart's way. The latter method will be very time consuming if you have quite a few emails and the former method will not enable you to open and view each email without either using a third party program or restoring the .dbx files back into the OE folder.

If you wish to do it Chill's way I suggest that you get a free program called DBXtract available from here (pages.prodigy.net). This site also gives some very good advice on several programs of this sort. 		Susan B (19)
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