Best way to back up Outllook Express email.

[BuckMaster]

HI,

How the best way to back up my e-mail and Address book in Outlook Express?
What files do I need to back up? I have done this before but its been along time and in windows 98. Im running windows 2000 now. Is there a way to export them some how to a backup directory?


Thanks!

 

[Tonec]

http://www.ajsystems.com/oexhome.html

 

[compuwiz1]

Why has MS not included a backup for that specific thing? That's what I've always wondered. I know how to do it manually, but it's a pain.

 

[BuckMaster]

Thats a GOOD Question compuwiz1!

I just went ahead and used Express Assit its easy and simple to use. The link Tonec posted. I have seen it before but never used it till now.

 

[compuwiz1]

Well here is the path on my computer:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{70240C00-AA16-11D4-A89B-9A390AB9512C}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

All the files in the last folder I copy to floppy, then if I reinstall, I paste them back into the same folder, and voila, all my old stuff is still there. The folder that has all the .dbx files...anyway, copy all those.

 

[BuckMaster]

Grin my email and address book will not fit on a floppy. I usually just copy them to my slave drive and burn them to a cd. I backup my drive once a month. When needed to; I go back and just import them back to Outlook.

 

[Looney]

I always wondered that too compuwiz1... first time i needed to, i spent over two hours trying to find the option in Express.

 

[compuwiz1]

Buckmaster, aka smartass, ok...you have an impressive sized address book. Hehe

I guess, last time I did it, I copied it to a folder in a second hard drive. It's now 112mb. :Q

 

[BuckMaster]

ROFL @ compuwiz1!

 

[Thor_Sevan]

Yep, compuwiz1 that is exactly what I do every format.
I think its the best and fastest (safest also) idea.

Good luck

THor

 

[Kill_Phil]

just do a search for *.dbx on your hard drive(s). you will see inbox.dbx, outbox.dbx, etc...
save those, import using "file>import > messages > outlook express 5"