Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to help ...

I need to move emails out of Outlook and into various folders on my C drive.

I have given it a try and when I drag an email out of Outlook and drop it into a folder on my C directory (viewed via an Explorer window), the email is listed with date created and date modified as the date I moved the email into the folder, not the date of the email itself. This makes it difficult to file or find specific emails.

Is there any way of getting the emails to list with the actual original received date, just as they do when listed in Outlook?

I'm not sure if I explained that very clearly ... here's hoping ...

Oh and I'm using Outlook 2007 with an XP OS.

"Angie Moore" wrote in message
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I have given it a try and when I drag an email out of Outlook and drop
it into a folder on my C directory (viewed via an Explorer window), the
email is listed with date created and date modified as the date I moved
the email into the folder, not the date of the email itself. This makes
it difficult to file or find specific emails.

Of course. All you're doing is creating a file, as far as the file system is
concerned, and it records the time at which you allocated the space and
created the file. The file system has no access to the information contained
in the file. The contents of the file cannot affect the time when the file
was created. A mail message if not a file until you make it one.

Is there any way of getting the emails to list with the actual original
received date, just as they do when listed in Outlook?

No, unless you find a tool online that can poke whatever time stamps you want
into the various fields of the file metadata. Start he
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=100&q=%2Bset+%2Bfile+%2Bcreated+% 2Bdate+%2Bwindows
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Thanks Brian. Really appreciate your reply. It makes perfect sense ... I guess it was just a bit of wishful thinking on my part hoping that I could have the info I wanted where I wanted it, in one simple move. Anyway, once again, many thanks, and I will investigate further via the link you've suggested.

Angie