| Email loss causes majority of business loss, to | | | | follows |
| overcome the common problem the backup of | | | | 1. Start Outlook Express |
| Outlook Express mails can be taken regularly and | | | | 2. Go to the Tools menu, |
| this article is aimed at explaining you how you can | | | | 3. Open the Options dialog box. |
| backup your Outlook Express mails (Since, | | | | 4. In the Options dialog box, Select the |
| Outlook Express lacks a backup option). Outlook | | | | Maintenance page |
| Express the widely used email program is usually | | | | 5. Click the Store Folder button. Here you can |
| installed with the Windows operating system. | | | | find the path to the folder containing your emails. |
| Outlook Express is fairly easy to use, but finding | | | | To open the folder, copy the path and paste in |
| and backing up the emails can be a little more | | | | the address field of the Windows File Manager. |
| complicated. Since there are a large number of | | | | You should see a number of .dbx files (depending |
| files and folders on a computer running Windows, | | | | upon the number of folders created) and possibly |
| the first problem is to find the files containing the | | | | some other files, too. After locating the email |
| emails. Outlook Express stores emails in .dbx files | | | | folder, you can simply select all the files, copy |
| and it stores and maintains different dbx files | | | | them and paste it to a new location or you can |
| depending upon the email folders created in | | | | take the backup on another hard disk, a CDRW, a |
| Outlook Express.In Windows 98, you can probably | | | | DVD or a network drive.How to backup Address |
| locate your emails somewhere in the Windows | | | | Book |
| directory. In Windows 2000 and XP, emails are | | | | 1. Select Tools >> Address Book... from the |
| usually stored somewhere in the user data or | | | | menu in Outlook Express. |
| application data folder. The common reasons for | | | | 2. Choose File >> Export >> Other Address |
| email loss are virus attack, software malfunction, | | | | Book... from the address book's menu. |
| power failures, human error and hard drive | | | | 3. Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) as |
| failure.One can easily save and backup the emails, | | | | the export format. |
| attachments, address book and other important | | | | 4. Click Export. |
| data from within the email client to a CDRW or | | | | 5. Select the location you want to export your |
| DVD; otherwise in case of a computer problem | | | | address book to using the browse... button. |
| the user will find himself in the impossibility to get | | | | 6. Give your backup copy a meaningful name. |
| them back, and this can be a really unwanted | | | | 7. Click Next. |
| situation especially for web community or people | | | | 8. Select the fields you want to include in your |
| who rely on their emails. Unfortunately the | | | | backup. |
| common practice among us is that we actually | | | | 9. Select Finish. |
| start to do backup copies only after we lose | | | | 10. Click OK to finish.If you have not backed up |
| data.The simple way to find out and locate the | | | | you emails so, take a backup now. |
| actual path where your emails are stored is as | | | | |