Outlook Express help

[Brumeiser]

I hope this would be as good of a place to have this question, if not I apologize and I hope one of the great moderators we have here will move it for me. My dilemma, my old desktop crashed and with it was hundreds of my email, alot of it was for my home based business. After working a week I was able to move them all to a dummy account. My question is, is it possible to save the contents of your email and your address book to a cd or a portable usb port? I need to get in the habit of doing this once a month or so because the work I went through this past week was unbearable. I was able to save everything and moved to my new desktop. I think the problem with the old was I had too much information out there and not a big enough hard drive. I had a 30 gig hard drive and my new one is 200gb. So I have plenty of room. I just need a computer expert out there than can explain how to do this. Thanks

 

[Taylor]

I am not very familiar with Outlook Express, but in Outlook you can export all folders (inbox, sent mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) to a PST file and store on a CD or your hard drive.

On your menu bar, choose "File", "Import & Export", choose "Export to a File", choose PST (Personal Folder File). Choose the directories you want to export, and the destination. If you have a lot of files it may take quite a while.

 

[Brumeiser]

I think the most I would want to save will be for the home business. If i ever lose those I will be totall lost. So thanks for those tips I will try them tommorrow.

 

[Topper]

http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm#outlookexpress