Re: Backing-up emails

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From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:20:25 -0500

Take a look at http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

OE will not open a dbx file individually. It will only open the message store.

steve

"Alan" <a.v.l@REMOVEMEbtinternet.com> wrote in message news:bvjpk7$bbs$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> I'm re-organising the filing system on my PC so that most folders will come
> under "My Documents" I'm also redirecting email to a new back-up location
> in "My Documents/email" instead of the obscure place Outlook Express
> chooses. Having back-upped all email to this new location, I find when I
> open the "My Document/email" folder there are 44 icons representing
> different folders within my Internet explorer page. When I double click on
> one of the icons I'm asked to choose a program to open it by going on line
> or choosing from a list. When I choose msimn.exe which has the Outlook
> Express icon, the O.E. page opens as it should but only shows emails of the
> past 2 weeks. Is this correct or should I have a record of all my emails
> going back over years?
>
> I also noticed that all 44 icons in the "documents/email" backup folder have
> different names, but when opened take me to the same main page of Outlook
> express. Some of these folders represent newsgroups I've joined and "in"
> and "out" boxes etc.and I was expecting to be taken directly to the
> separately named places?
>
> These may be naive questions to the more experienced here but being the
> first time for me it seems slightly confusing right now. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Alan
>
>

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