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?

OE does not generate an over quota message. That would be coming from the
ISP. That said, it is easy to do.

Right click on the Desktop an New | Folder. Create as many as needed and for
now, put them on the left side of the Desktop.

Open OE and drag the window to the right enough to see the folders on the
Desktop. Open a folder in OE and click on one message. Ctrl+A will highlight
them all. Left click on the messages and drag them to the folder on the
Desktop.

You can also be selective by holding the Ctrl key and just highlight certain
messages and then drag them to the folder on the Desktop.

Once you confirm they are in these folders, you can delete them from OE and
follow up with a Compact All Folders, which I think probably needs to be
done.

Also, please heed this advice:

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your
mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

And backup often.

Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

This is a great two click program:

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"History Fan" wrote in message
...
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?

Hi History Fan,

Just to add a little more, if the server mailbox is over quota (POP3
account) check to see if OE is leaving a copy of messages on the server.
Most POP3 accounts are not designed for messages to be left indefinitely --
there is limited storage space. Messages should be removed after a period of
days depending on volume. A suggestion would be from 7 to 14 days, but can
vary on a case by case basis.

Tools | Accounts | Mail account | Properties Advanced tab.

If messages have been left on the server you might be able to set-up the
account on another machine and download all the messages. This might not be
practicable with a slow Internet connection. After doing this the setting
under the advanced tab would then be changed.

OE can also import messages from an OE message store folder. This would
involve copying the files in the message store to another location, then
importing from the (new) folder holding the files (per Bruce's instruction
for selection). This would allow for importing selected messages if they are
moved to another folder. This folder would then be selected when importing.
OE would need to closed and opened again before copying the message store
files to update the store folder files. The (*.dbx) file for the OE folder
created for the purpose and a copy of Folders.dbx could be moved to another
location for import.

OLEXP: How to Back Up and Recover Outlook Express Data

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;270670




--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
OE does not generate an over quota message. That would be coming from the
ISP. That said, it is easy to do.

Right click on the Desktop an New | Folder. Create as many as needed and for
now, put them on the left side of the Desktop.

Open OE and drag the window to the right enough to see the folders on the
Desktop. Open a folder in OE and click on one message. Ctrl+A will highlight
them all. Left click on the messages and drag them to the folder on the
Desktop.

You can also be selective by holding the Ctrl key and just highlight certain
messages and then drag them to the folder on the Desktop.

Once you confirm they are in these folders, you can delete them from OE and
follow up with a Compact All Folders, which I think probably needs to be
done.

Also, please heed this advice:

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your
mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

And backup often.

Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

This is a great two click program:

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"History Fan" wrote in message
...
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?

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.)

"History Fan" wrote in message
...
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?

send me a email
"History Fan" wrote in message
...
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?