[Ham-Computers] Saving e-mail messages "outside" MS Outlook Express?

[Philip B Atchley]

It's pretty simple and I've moved messages from computer to computer this
way.

1.  Do a search for *.dbx to determine what folder your email is in.

2.  Save the folder containing all the .dbx files to a zip disk, CD, or
floppy disks.  If the files are too large for a single floppy you can zip
them into a single .zip file spanning multiple floppies if you need to (a
program such as WinZip does this well).

3.  Write down the full path of the folder that the mail folder is
contained in so you can find it on the new machine/operating system. On
my computer it is 

Windows/Application Data / Identities / ### /  Microsoft / Outlook
Express. 

 ### signifies a folder with a gazillion numbers/letters.


4.  NOTE:  using the "save path info" in Winzip may not be the best
choice as sometimes one of the folder name containing a gazillion
letters/numbers in the path may change when you re-load the operating
system.   

Do this and you need never fear losing mail in the future.

73 de Phil  KO6BB

> onto disk or some other media so that the messages can be
> reloaded once the computer is repaired, or loaded onto 
> another computer that is still functioning?  And we're taking 
> about a bunch of e-mail messages here, not just three or four.

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