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Then you have two options:
1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save most of
these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items folder to a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE folder at a later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on my hard drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just didn't understand. Thanks. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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First create a new folder in OE under Local Folders. That is, click on
Local Folders in the folder list, the File, New, Folder. Give it a name of your choice. Then drag desired messages from the Sent Items folder to the new folder. You want to do a File, Folder Compact on the Sent Items folder (or all folders) to recover the disk space from the moved messages. There's no particular need to move the new folder out of OE unless the drive where the OE store folder is located is too full and you have another drive to move it to. If you want to move it, look at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for the location of the DBX files. Move the file with OE closed. To bring the DBX file back into OE, see: How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx) http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save most of these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items folder to a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE folder at a later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on my hard drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just didn't understand. Thanks. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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I created another file and moved my Sent Items e-mails to the new folder. Two
questions: 1 - You're saying that it's fine to leave the e-mails in the newly created folder even if there's thousands of e-mails in it? Is that correct? 2 - If I had tons of e-mail in my sent items folder (which I did), would that affect my sending and receiving e-mails? I've had several people tell me they didn't get something I sent them and I don't think I'm receiving all e-mails either. I called Bellsouth and they said everything looked OK to them. Would a full Sent Items folder affect me sending and receiving e-mails? I know it's a question for Bellsouth, but I wanted opinions from here too. Thanks "Michael Santovec" wrote: First create a new folder in OE under Local Folders. That is, click on Local Folders in the folder list, the File, New, Folder. Give it a name of your choice. Then drag desired messages from the Sent Items folder to the new folder. You want to do a File, Folder Compact on the Sent Items folder (or all folders) to recover the disk space from the moved messages. There's no particular need to move the new folder out of OE unless the drive where the OE store folder is located is too full and you have another drive to move it to. If you want to move it, look at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for the location of the DBX files. Move the file with OE closed. To bring the DBX file back into OE, see: How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx) http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save most of these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items folder to a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE folder at a later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on my hard drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just didn't understand. Thanks. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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This covers a lot.
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.insideoe.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 Imperial Beach, CA "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I created another file and moved my Sent Items e-mails to the new folder. Two questions: 1 - You're saying that it's fine to leave the e-mails in the newly created folder even if there's thousands of e-mails in it? Is that correct? 2 - If I had tons of e-mail in my sent items folder (which I did), would that affect my sending and receiving e-mails? I've had several people tell me they didn't get something I sent them and I don't think I'm receiving all e-mails either. I called Bellsouth and they said everything looked OK to them. Would a full Sent Items folder affect me sending and receiving e-mails? I know it's a question for Bellsouth, but I wanted opinions from here too. Thanks "Michael Santovec" wrote: First create a new folder in OE under Local Folders. That is, click on Local Folders in the folder list, the File, New, Folder. Give it a name of your choice. Then drag desired messages from the Sent Items folder to the new folder. You want to do a File, Folder Compact on the Sent Items folder (or all folders) to recover the disk space from the moved messages. There's no particular need to move the new folder out of OE unless the drive where the OE store folder is located is too full and you have another drive to move it to. If you want to move it, look at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for the location of the DBX files. Move the file with OE closed. To bring the DBX file back into OE, see: How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx) http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save most of these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items folder to a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE folder at a later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on my hard drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just didn't understand. Thanks. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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1) There's no particular harm in leaving it there. The risk of
corruption occurs when updating the folder. If you aren't adding, moving, deleting messages in the folder, then it's not getting updated. Likewise, there's some risk of corruption during the compacting process. But since you aren't updating the folder, the process will quickly skip over the folder when it finds there is nothing that needs to be done. Of course you are regularly backing up your whole message store so that in the unlikely event of some corruption, you can recover, aren't you?. 2) The corruption of the Outbox folder is the only one that could cause problems in the recipients getting their messages. Corruption in the Sent Items could cause a couple of problems. If OE is unable to move the message from the Outbox to the Sent Items after successfully sending, the message could get stuck in the Outbox and be sent repeatedly. So they would get multiple copies of the message rather than none. The other issue would be that messages get lost in the Sent Items. In that case, you won't be able to find your copy of sent messages. But that's after the fact as far as sending. As for receiving, the Inbox corruption could cause lose of incoming messages. The Sent Items would have no effect on incoming messages. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I created another file and moved my Sent Items e-mails to the new folder. Two questions: 1 - You're saying that it's fine to leave the e-mails in the newly created folder even if there's thousands of e-mails in it? Is that correct? 2 - If I had tons of e-mail in my sent items folder (which I did), would that affect my sending and receiving e-mails? I've had several people tell me they didn't get something I sent them and I don't think I'm receiving all e-mails either. I called Bellsouth and they said everything looked OK to them. Would a full Sent Items folder affect me sending and receiving e-mails? I know it's a question for Bellsouth, but I wanted opinions from here too. Thanks "Michael Santovec" wrote: First create a new folder in OE under Local Folders. That is, click on Local Folders in the folder list, the File, New, Folder. Give it a name of your choice. Then drag desired messages from the Sent Items folder to the new folder. You want to do a File, Folder Compact on the Sent Items folder (or all folders) to recover the disk space from the moved messages. There's no particular need to move the new folder out of OE unless the drive where the OE store folder is located is too full and you have another drive to move it to. If you want to move it, look at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for the location of the DBX files. Move the file with OE closed. To bring the DBX file back into OE, see: How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx) http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "johnnie2130" wrote in message ... I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save most of these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items folder to a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE folder at a later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on my hard drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just didn't understand. Thanks. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Then you have two options: 1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows folder. Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE. Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same name. 2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder you created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g., "MessagesFromMom". 3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity). 4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in #2 above (e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity. ================================= General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: QP Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. /QP http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106 -- ~PA Bear johnnie2130 wrote: I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old times sake although that likely wouldn't be very often. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for reference or do you just want to save them for old times sake? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ johnnie2130 wrote: I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or another location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re ![]() overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated. |
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