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Does anyone know how to save a batch of older emails? I want to keep them as records of correspondence. There has to be an easy way I'm just not finding!
-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
"Art is knowing when to stop." Posts: 1578 | From: Gettysburg, PA | Registered: Jun 2003
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Print them? Make a new folder in you email app and drag them in there. Copy the text and paste them in a Word file.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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Gene, I can "Save As" in my email application, and that gives me the option to put them anywhere; or just highlight what you want to save, copy, and paste in another application - I use Quark Xpress. This is on a Mac. In spite of that, I hope this helps! Erica
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-------------------- Johnny Taylor All About Signs Ltd New Zealand www.allaboutsigns.co.nz Posts: 13 | From: New Zealand | Registered: Jul 2004
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I use Outlook and there are ways to export anything as a file (contacts, emails, your calendar etc). Just click on file, export and follow along. This link (http://www.steve.maurer.net/tutorials/email_tutorials/saving_email.htm) explains a way to do it in Outlook Express. I tried it with Outlook and it saved the emails as .msg files which opened up just fine when I double clicked them. The fact that they get saved with the subject as the file name can be a bit of a problem though.
-------------------- David McDonald Palm Harbor Florida USA
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Just a thought. You can copy and save your entire folder where the emails are saved by outlook express on a disk, etc. It can be imported again at any time in the future. to do so:
first open windows explorer. goto: "tools/folder options/view" and make sure that the "show hidden files and folders" button is checked.
then, open outlook express and go to:"tools/options/maintenance/store folder" in the box that comes up look at the address of the folder. You may have to put your cursor in the box and use your arrow keys to move it to see the whole address. In windows explorer, navigate to that address, and then copy the folder to where you want.
Hope this makes since, and helps.........
-------------------- Dave Utter D-utterguy on chat Sign Designs Beardstown, Il. signdesigns@casscomm.com Posts: 777 | From: beardstown, illinois, usa | Registered: Mar 1999
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I just copy the inbox.dbx file as mentioned by others and put it on CD. Easy. That's exactly how I backed up all my old emails before reformatting.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Like others have said, its easiest to backup the entire email folder or file. If you are using Outlook you need to backup up .pst files in order to get email, contacts, calendar etc. If you are using Outlook express you need to back up your Identities folder if you have more than one Identity. (Win XP default C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities , as well as your address book in C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book If you use AOL you should periodically use the backup feature to create a file which can then be burnt to disk. If you use Incredimail you should also create a backup file regularly because as far as I know you can only restore back to Incredimail from one of its backup file types and no other email programs I know will recognise it in any shape or form. (Better still, ditch incredimail) If you use Eudora then you can backup the email directory for later restoration provided the program revision is the same. I use Mozilla Thunderbird and I did read up about backing it up a while ago and it is easily do-able. I just don't see anything worth backing up. For my part I can't see any good reason to backup selectively, its easier to just backup the whole shibang. If it won't fit on a CD then thats a good excuse to buy a DVDRW. HTH, David
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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