Hi:

What is the easiest way to save OE e-mail's in a folder in My Documents,
other than copying and pasting them individually?

Thanks

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Ted Zieglar
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"ColTom2" wrote in message
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Hi:

What is the easiest way to save OE e-mail's in a folder in My Documents,
other than copying and pasting them individually?

Thanks

There are a few ways, but I like this one. Create a new folder and put it on
the left side of your Desktop. Open a folder in OE. Hold the Ctrl key while
you select the messages you want to save. Drag the OE window to the right to
expose the Desktop and the folder. Grab one of the highlighted messages and
drag it to the Desktop folder and all that were selected will be saved
there.

If you must save them in My Documents, Put that folder on the Left side of
the Desktop and do the same thing. After, open My Docs and highlight all the
messages and drag them to a folder in My Docs.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ColTom2" wrote in message
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Hi:

What is the easiest way to save OE e-mail's in a folder in My Documents,
other than copying and pasting them individually?

Thanks

You can use Drag-and-Drop to save multiple e-mail messages at a time.

- Open the Windows File Explorer to the folder (directory) that you
want to save the messages to (e.g. C:\EML-TEMP). For minimal confusion,
the folder should be empty or only used for saving mail messages.
- In Outlook Express highlight the desired messages (Ctrl-Click or
Shift-Click)
- While holding down the Left mouse button, drag the messages to the
Explorer window. If the Explorer window is not visible, drag to the
Taskbar button for Explorer, keep holding the left mouse button down
until Explorer moves to the front, then complete the drag to the
Explorer window and then release the Left mouse button.
- Complication: Messages are saved as *.EML files where the first part
of the file name is the message's subject. If you save multiple
messages in one drag-and drop operation, OE will automatically number
the subsequent messages with identical subject to make the name unique.
But if you later save additional messages with the same subject it will
start the numbering process over again and you will get a "Confirm File
Replace" dialog for the duplicate names. When this happens, leave the
confirm dialog and switch to the Windows File Explorer. Rename the
first file (e.g. rename "The Subject.EML" to "The Subject-1.EML"). Then
switch back to the Confirm dialog and click on YES. The new message
will get saved with the original name and the previous message will
still be there with the new name.

You may find the following utilities useful:
DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
DBXpress - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
DBXtend - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

OEX Enhancements - Import/Export/Resend/Duplicates/Attachments, etc.
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx

DbxConv - DBX to MBOX/EML converter by Ulrich Krebs
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

Outlook Express Extraction
http://macallan.club.fr/index.htm



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


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Hi:

What is the easiest way to save OE e-mail's in a folder in My
Documents, other than copying and pasting them individually?

Thanks

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"ColTom2" wrote in message
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Hi:

What is the easiest way to save OE e-mail's in a folder in My Documents,
other than copying and pasting them individually?

Thanks