| If you are like me, you have kept every | | | | press CTRL+V and then OK. |
| important email that you have ever sent or | | | | |
| received since the beginning of the computer | | | | 6. A window will open up with all your email |
| age. I have all my emails sorted in folders | | | | in it by folder. At the top of the screen |
| by the name of the person and/or business and | | | | Click Edit, Select ALL. Click Edit, Copy, and |
| I religiously file all sent or received | | | | close the window. |
| emails into their proper folders. By doing | | | | |
| this I keep my in box fairly clean and I can | | | | 7. Create an empty folder on your desktop by |
| find old emails pretty quick when I need to. | | | | Right Clicking empty space, Left click New |
| | | | then Folder. An empty folder will be created |
| At any given time some stupid hacker could | | | | on your desktop that you can rename to |
| infiltrate your system or something else | | | | EmailBackup or whatever you like. |
| could happen to cause your system to be wiped | | | | |
| out. If that happens, you will want a way to | | | | 8. Double click into your new backup folder |
| keep most of your old emails. | | | | and right click into the space and then left |
| | | | click paste. Copies of all your email files |
| You should consider making a backup of all | | | | are now in your backup folder. |
| your emails to a zip file or even burned onto | | | | |
| a CD at least once or twice a year. If you do | | | | 9. You can now zip the whole folder and/or |
| this properly and a tragedy occurs, you can | | | | burn it to a CD for really safe keeping. I |
| restore your email using your backup. | | | | like to add the date of creation to my zip |
| | | | file name (ie: EmailBackup-20070816.zip). |
| This will only work if you are using | | | | |
| Microsoft Outlook Express. | | | | Restore Email from Back Up File |
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| With Notebook Computers buy what you need | | | | |
| when you need it as there will always be | | | | |
| newer, cheaper and faster models being | | | | 1. Put your unzipped backup folder onto your |
| released everyday. | | | | desktop. |
| | | | |
| Backing up your emails | | | | 2. Start Outlook Express and then Left click |
| | | | File, Import and then to Messages. |
| | | | |
| | | | 3. In the Select an Email Program to import |
| 1. Start Up Outlook Express. | | | | from box, click Microsoft Outlook Express 5 |
| | | | or Microsoft Outlook Express 6, click on |
| 2. Click Tools, Options. | | | | next. |
| | | | |
| 3. Find the Maintenance Tab and then click on | | | | 4. Click on the Import mail from an OE5 store |
| Store Folder. | | | | directory or the Import mail from an OE5 |
| | | | store directory, and then click ok. |
| 4. A Store location dialog box should appear | | | | |
| with the full address to where your emails | | | | 5. Click on Browse and then the mail backup |
| are being store on your computer. Highlight | | | | folder on your desktop. |
| this address and press the CTRL+C keys or | | | | |
| right click copy. Click cancel to close the | | | | 6. Click on OK and then the Next Button. |
| dialog box. | | | | |
| | | | 7. Click on the ALL Folders and then Next and |
| 5. Left click your Start Button and click | | | | finally Finish. |
| Run, click into the box that opens up and | | | | |