| Besides the spam that you get on a daily basis | | | | Ok let's get started! These instructions are for |
| there are actually real email that you would like to | | | | Outlook Express, if you are using another email |
| keep, and you consider important enough that | | | | program your will have to consult that program |
| you might need them for reference some day, | | | | manual. |
| however storing those important e-mail on your | | | | 1. Start Outlook Express. |
| hard drive is risky. So what can you do? I 'm glad | | | | 2. In the top menu bar click on Tools. |
| you are reading this article because you will find | | | | 3. When the window drops down click on Options. |
| out. | | | | 4. Once you click on options there will be another |
| Generally in most email programs you have the | | | | window that will open in that window click on the |
| ability save and archive those very important | | | | Maintenance Tab. |
| emails buy copying or transferring them to a | | | | 5. Almost all the down at the bottom of the page |
| removal storage media such as a CD or DVD. | | | | right above troubleshooting you will see "click |
| With those emails now transferred to a removal | | | | Store Folder to change the location of your |
| media you can delete them off of your hard | | | | message store" now click on the Store Folder |
| drive, and in a sense, doing yourself two favors. | | | | button. Once you have click on Store Folder the |
| 1. You just gained a little more space on hard | | | | Store Location window will appear. |
| drive, or gained a ton of space if you have a ton | | | | 6. High light the path name in the Store location |
| emails that you were saving. | | | | dialoged box by cling and dragging over the path |
| 2. Now you don't have to worry about loosing | | | | name text, the press CTRL C to copy that text |
| those e-mails if your hard drive were to ever | | | | to your clip board. |
| crash. One point for you and the computer gods | | | | 7. Close Outlook Express. |
| none. | | | | 8. Right click on the start button on the bottom |
| Microsoft Outlook Express stores email in what is | | | | left hand of your computer, and then click on |
| called a .dbx file. Each folder in your Outlook | | | | Explore. Highlight the current text that is in the |
| Express contains a DBX file, for example, all of | | | | address field and press CTRL-V to paste the path |
| the messages in your primary inbox will have a | | | | that you copied from Outlook Express, and then |
| DBX file and sent items.dbx will have all the | | | | press Enter. |
| messages in your sent items folder. | | | | 9. Click on the very fist file and then press |
| Depending on how many emails that you want to | | | | CRTL-A to select the all the files at once. Now |
| save and archive you may want to think about | | | | you drag all the files into your software burning |
| compressing those messages making them | | | | program or you can right click and then click Send |
| smaller in overall size, thus using less space when | | | | To and then click the drive that contains your |
| you're ready to transfer them to your removal | | | | removable media. The Send to option can be a |
| media. However, this process is optional, CD are | | | | little confusing at times and you may just want to |
| relatively inexpensive and unless you have been | | | | use the software that come with CD Recorder |
| saving email since Windows 3.1 there is a good | | | | as it actually may be a bit simpler to burn those |
| chance you will be able to transfer all of your | | | | files on to your CD. |
| archived messages on to one 700mb CD. | | | | |