Saving e-mail folders.
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Saving e-mail folders.
Saving e-mails has created a lot of responses, and thanks to all who over the months have come up with answers, and I've also seen replies to others on this subject.
What I would like to do is save a whole folder from my Windows Mail ( Outlook Express for Vista ) and I have yet to crack this one.
e.g. I have created a "Keep" folder in my list of folders, and occasionally transfer an e-mail that I consider important enough to keep for future reference, and my "Keep" folder now contains some 100+ e-mails that I would like to transfer to another medium, CD or USB stick etc. that will allow me to a) keep them for posterity, or b) use on another computer.
I've worked out how to send an individual e-mail to a word doc. file, which I can then transfer as required, but I'm not prepared to do that one by one for the 100+ that I now have, nor am I going to save individual e-mails as they arrive on the off chance that I might need them one day, some are clearly in that category as they arrive, but most assume that importance later, and it is only when I come to clear my Inbox from time to time that I decide to upgrade them to "Keep" status, hence my now busy "Keep" folder.
How can I transfer that "Keep" folder en masse in one hit ? I got close to it somehow recently, ( forgotten how now ! ) but when trying to re-read them they were all in machine code, not readable text.
Grrrr. !!
What I would like to do is save a whole folder from my Windows Mail ( Outlook Express for Vista ) and I have yet to crack this one.
e.g. I have created a "Keep" folder in my list of folders, and occasionally transfer an e-mail that I consider important enough to keep for future reference, and my "Keep" folder now contains some 100+ e-mails that I would like to transfer to another medium, CD or USB stick etc. that will allow me to a) keep them for posterity, or b) use on another computer.
I've worked out how to send an individual e-mail to a word doc. file, which I can then transfer as required, but I'm not prepared to do that one by one for the 100+ that I now have, nor am I going to save individual e-mails as they arrive on the off chance that I might need them one day, some are clearly in that category as they arrive, but most assume that importance later, and it is only when I come to clear my Inbox from time to time that I decide to upgrade them to "Keep" status, hence my now busy "Keep" folder.
How can I transfer that "Keep" folder en masse in one hit ? I got close to it somehow recently, ( forgotten how now ! ) but when trying to re-read them they were all in machine code, not readable text.
Grrrr. !!
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 21st January 2013 at 23:14.
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Once you have located the folder on your drive, just set up a simple scheduled backup at whatever interval you wish. You can then 're-import' if necessary?
CAVEAT: No experience of the workings of .Vista or W mail.
CAVEAT: No experience of the workings of .Vista or W mail.
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Windows Mail is NOT OE for Vista, even if the executable is still named as as msimn.exe. The file locations and structures are different, especially the way the contacts are held.
Anyway, this may help answer your question
backup
Note that the files are hidden so simple backup routines will not find them
Anyway, this may help answer your question
backup
Note that the files are hidden so simple backup routines will not find them
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 22nd January 2013 at 23:57.
