Saving e-mail to a CD (W98)

[corina]

I would like to clean out my Outlook Express Inbox, Sent Mail, and Deleted folders by saving the e-mails in them to a CD. But on my C drive directory, I cannot find a folder containing these e-mails.

Anyone have a suggestion on how to go about doing this?

Corina

[BertImmenschuh]

The messages are not in folders as implied in Outlook Express. Those 'folders' are actually files by the same name that store the individual messages. This also gives a clue as to why messages removed from Deleted Items usually can't be found.

In Win9x/ME look in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express for the files.

You could simply copy the files to a CD or Zip disk but still not be able to see the individual messages.

DBExtract can be used to extract the messages individually to another folder which could then be burnt to a CD.
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/>http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/</a>

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement

[dlawe]

First make a new folder on your 'C' Drive and call it E-Mails then open up Outlook Express as well as the new folder you have just made then drag and drop your E-Mails into the new folder now make a folder on your CD and burn the E-Mails you have now got in the folder on your CDrive called E-Mails

[corina]

Thanks, Bert. I have downloaded DBExtract. But before I install it, can you tell me whether I will then have to extract each of the e-mails, one by one? As I have thousands of them, this sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

Corina

[BertImmenschuh]

It'll extract them all but it will take quite a bit of time. Plan to wash the dishes, do the laundry, sun bathe, etc.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement

[corina]

Or work on the computer while the extraction is done in the background?

[jdharm]

I wouldn't count on it. I tried this on a 500MHz 128MB machine and DBXtract was hogging so much resources that I couldn't do much of anything till it was done.

Josh
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.jdharm.net>www.jdharm.net</a><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by jdharm on 05/16/03 14:08.</FONT></P>

[BertImmenschuh]

I did it on a WinXP Pro AMD K7-700MHz with 512MB RAM and a file of 7996 messages, but like I mentioned, it did take a while. Nice part of WinXP, it does do things in the background better than Win9x/ME, even burning data to a CD while browsing the 'net [Win98 couldn't do both at same time without ruining the CD].

I was gone this afternoon seeing my 2-hour-old great-granddaughter.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement