I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are backed up. I now need
to refer to a particular email. Having restored the folder, how do I
extract that particular email please?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

If the folder is in the OE folder tree, right click on it and use the Find
function.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
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I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are backed up. I now need
to refer to a particular email. Having restored the folder, how do I
extract that particular email please?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are
backed up. I now need to refer to a particular
email. Having restored the folder, how do I extract
that
particular email please?
Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Depends on what you mean by "extract".

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Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are
backed up. I now need to refer to a particular email. Having restored
the folder, how do I extract that
particular email please?
Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Depends on what you mean by "extract".

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How to Post a newsgroup
question effectively:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375

Thanks Poprivet. It was a little while ago but other things and Christmas
have got in the way.

I keep a copy of all *.dbx folders in which individual OE emails are stored.
Occasionaly I need to restore a particular email (which has since been
deleted from OE and the current folder) and it's occured to me that it's no
good keeping emails in an archive if I don't know how to restore individual
emails. Would you please suggest a way around this problem.

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
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"Poprivet`" wrote in message
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Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are
backed up. I now need to refer to a particular email. Having restored
the folder, how do I extract that
particular email please?
Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Depends on what you mean by "extract".

--
--
How to Post a newsgroup
question effectively:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375

Thanks Poprivet. It was a little while ago but other things and Christmas
have got in the way.

I keep a copy of all *.dbx folders in which individual OE emails are
stored. Occasionaly I need to restore a particular email (which has since
been deleted from OE and the current folder) and it's occured to me that
it's no good keeping emails in an archive if I don't know how to restore
individual emails. Would you please suggest a way around this problem.

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway



I deleted this thread as I thought it was done with a long time ago so I
don't have much to go on. except what you see here.

You should always back up your dbx files, but backing them up and then
deleting the folder, or message in OE is not a way I would do it.

If you want to save space in the OE folder tree, simply create another
identity and import folders there for archiving.

As for restoring messages you have now, you have to restore the entire dbx
file to get any of the messages. This is how you could do it if the dbx file
was on the Desktop. Make changes as needed.

Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the one on the
Desktop. Open the new folder and then close OE. Go to Windows Explorer and
locate the Message Store folder for your OE identity, but don't open it.
Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the Desktop in the right hand
pane to the OE store folder in the left pane. Prompt - "Do you want to
overwrite......."? Click Yes.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
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"Poprivet`" wrote in message
...
Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are
backed up. I now need to refer to a particular email. Having restored
the folder, how do I extract that
particular email please?
Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Depends on what you mean by "extract".

--
--
How to Post a newsgroup
question effectively:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375

Thanks Poprivet. It was a little while ago but other things and
Christmas have got in the way.

I keep a copy of all *.dbx folders in which individual OE emails are
stored. Occasionaly I need to restore a particular email (which has since
been deleted from OE and the current folder) and it's occured to me that
it's no good keeping emails in an archive if I don't know how to restore
individual emails. Would you please suggest a way around this problem.

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway



I deleted this thread as I thought it was done with a long time ago so I
don't have much to go on. except what you see here.

You should always back up your dbx files, but backing them up and then
deleting the folder, or message in OE is not a way I would do it.

If you want to save space in the OE folder tree, simply create another
identity and import folders there for archiving.

As for restoring messages you have now, you have to restore the entire dbx
file to get any of the messages. This is how you could do it if the dbx
file was on the Desktop. Make changes as needed.

Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the one on the
Desktop. Open the new folder and then close OE. Go to Windows Explorer and
locate the Message Store folder for your OE identity, but don't open it.
Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the Desktop in the right hand
pane to the OE store folder in the left pane. Prompt - "Do you want to
overwrite......."? Click Yes.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

I may have a related question - all of a sudden, my OE has my emails
'grouped' in a tree. Does the following have something to do w/
archiving?

Today (Feb 08) I sent my daughter an email (we'll call her Alex). I
then went to the 'sent' folder later to add on to it (she tolerates
this from me) and it wasn't there. I sorted by 'sent date' just to be
sure and it still wasn't there. I used 'find' and voila' there it was,
'grouped in a tree' under an email I had sent w/ the same subject line
IN SEPTEMBER!!!
This will not work for me - my brain does not think this way and I
frequently look up emails received/deleted/sent on a certain date, NOT
subject.
HELP PLEASE. I did not ask OE to do this!!
I work w/ someone who sends/receives many emails with spreadsheets and
I'm sure my folders are getting full (I also get HIS emails in another
in-box) but if this is what archiving does, I don't want it. Is there
another way?

thanks, Misguided in Maine