Oulook express 6.0

Thats not the best way to archive the information.

You need to setup personal folders which can then sit on the c or d drive.

This will create a 2nd set of folders within outlook which you can drag and drop your emails into for offline reading.

Do a search for personal folders within the help files for Outlook.

try moving a smaller number of messages at a time. Say 100.

OE is not designed for high volumes of stored messages like Outlook is.

Yes, you need to transfer messages 1 at a time.
You will then need to delete the message from the inbox or folder that it is in, and then from the deleted items folder.

Also, watch out for attachments being dropped.
OE defaults to .eml format when you save a message, so be sure to change to html for any messages with important html content.

Don't forget to clean out your sent items folder while you are at it.

I didn't save the link, but about 9 months ago, there was a question on backing up OE messages, and someone found a shareware solution that did the job.

You could also use the export option, and setup groups of saved messages in a seperate folder.
The negative of this, is that you would need to import the entire folder to retrieve a single message.

Here is a good site for any question on IE/OE
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/

Chas

First of all I would like to thank you very much for posting your doubt. After reading your doubt I sat in my PC trying to find out a solution to your prob. And I have a Solution for you...

1.Go to C: or D: drive according to your convenience.
2.Create a new folder (say old mails).
3.Righ click the folder and choose sent to desktop(create a Shortcut)
4. open outlook express
5. If it is maximized on your screen, make it smaller by clicking the box next to the X in the top right-hand corner. This will minimize the window so you can see the desktop. Move the window so you can see the Old mails folder shortcut.
6. Highlight all the messages you want to copy to save. Ctrl+A will select them all, or hold down the CTRL key and click on just the ones you want to save (Choose all the 800 mails :) ).
7. Drag the highlighted messages to the shortcut. The emails will be copied to the folder. The emails are copied in eml format, so clicking on one of the stored emails will open Outlook Express so you can read it.

Hope this will solve your problem.

regards
Rony

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