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Backing up your Outlook Express email can be done with a few easy steps.
How do I backup my Outlook Express email?
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Backing up is important, we all know that. And in many cases, one of the most important things to be backed up is your Outlook Express email.
Now, of course, you should be backing up your entire machine. But there are can certainly cases where all you want is to backup you email. The good news is that it's easy to do.
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Outlook Express stores your email in a set of ".dbx" files, one per folder. To locate where those files are located:
Click on the Tools menu
Select the Options... item
Click on the Maintenance tab
Click on the Store Folder button
The resulting dialog will indicate which directory contains your email folders.
Exit Outlook Express, and simply backup the entire contents of that directory.
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Go here to backup & restore Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670
Posted by: Nordell at March 29, 2011 8:17 AMI backed up my Windows Address Book (WAB-file) in the same way, but when trying to use it on one of my other machines, OE showed up with an empty-looking address book. So I had to import the addresses. No problem, of course, but after this process my WAB-file had doubled in disksize. In other words the addresses were already there, but OE did not display them. Can one explain this weird behaviour? Both machines run ons XP, albeit one Home and one Pro version.
Posted by: Egbert Zijlema at March 29, 2011 8:37 AMBTW: Out of curiosity I copied it back to the old machine and yes: the address book contained 2 items of every single address.
Changing over computers and wanting to save the email records other than hard copy. Thanks for the tip. I still prefer XP than to upgrade to 7 at the current time.
Posted by: Robert Wild at April 20, 2011 7:52 AMHow does one turn off or stop the pop up window in OE from opening 10 to 50 times a day about wanting to compact OE? I did this once and it deleted all my saved emails. Before this last reinstall when ever I compacted it did more of a compress but I never lost my emails that were saved in my saved folders. Some have said they are still on my comp but I cannot find them?
Posted by: Lee Cromwell at July 11, 2011 7:38 AMMy gosh...please go into detail! I went to another site and found detailed instructions.
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