There is an excellent program called DBXtract (http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx) that
will do just what your aunt wants to do. This program ($7.00) will actually copy all the mail in a
given folder to a drive, or folder, of your choice and make a subfolder with the same name as the OE
folder. Then you can delete the mail in OE.

Or, for free you can do this.
Open a new message, reduce the windows size so that you can see both OE and the New Message. (or
right mouse click on the task bar and choose tile the windows). Then open a folder in OE and drag
all of the folder messages into the new message. The folder messages will now be attachments in the
new message. Save the new message to your hard drive (or any drive) giving it the name of the
folder. Then when you want to review the messages, open this one message and click on the
attachment your want. (This make one "save-as" do the job for all the messages in a folder.)

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I'm asking this question on behalf of my aunt, who sent me this question. Her PC is an
ancient Gateway desktop running Windows 98FE, and Outlook Express 6 is her email program. Her ISP
is Road Runner. Any replies would be appreciated:


I have been over the last couple of years saved emails in a folder in Outlook Express. Energy
bills, phone bills, and some personal communications. I have these folders named.

My Outlook Express gives me a message from time to time that I am over quota, and explains that
this includes inbox, sent messages, folders, etc.

What I'm trying to do is save these folders on my hard drive.

However, the only way I can do that is open the messages one at a time and then go to file; save
as, and move it to the folder on my C drive.

Isn't there a way to highlight these messages, or the individual folders and save them to the hard
drive instead of one message at a time?