I lost my old saved ones when I got a new computer November 2001 so I have been saving them since then,often I will search for a remembered e-mail or person and more than once I have been successful but I never seem to have time to go to sent mailbox to delete stuff I was once told to save all messages in a mailbox called footlocker and empty it from there which I now have 2 footlockers (sob) with 727 & 307 messages, recently I retrieved a death certificate transcription and obit because I had them placed in "REAL IMPORTANT" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Saved E-Mail > You did not say how you had been saving the e-mail messages. > > Are they still in your inbox in Outlook Express? > Or, do you use the "File", "Save As" to save them as individual > messages? > > I set up a "Message Rule" to move mail when the subject line contains > "[FO]" to special FOW folder for email. When you search for it, you will > find that it is really one file, rather than a folder with individual > files for each message. > > FOW.DBX seems to reside in "C:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\{some > long number code}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\" along with the inbox, > drafts, outbox and any other folders you have for email. > > You can copy the entire "Outlook Express" folder to the CD, or only the > boxes you want. I would suggest copying them to a temporary folder on > the hard drive first, where you can rename them, perhaps appending the > current date to the folder or filename so that they can be identified > later. > > > You can get copies of the archives sent to you as digests, no > attachments this way, by sending an email to the following address, > subject "archive" and only the lines "get volume02/1", where "02" is the > year, and the number after the "/" is the number. number 1 would be the > first one for the year and the latest one is about 221. You can order > multiple digest as the example below shows, each one comes as a separate > email message. The advantage to these is that you can cut and paste > several messages at a time to Word or something and save them in a > format that you do not need Outlook Express to read. > > To: [email protected] > Subject: archive > Message: > get volume02/31 > get volume02/32 > get volume02/33 > > > > > Alfred D. Eller > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ > > ========================== > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:48 PM > Subject: [FO] Saved E-Mail > > > > I save E-mail all the time and I have tons saved for [FO] Now I would > like > > to put it all on a "CD" to save, I already have 106 for August > > Yes I know there are archives but I sure would like to do this while I > am > > still young any help ? > > SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN > > Sacramento,CA > > http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ > > http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm > > all my mail scanned by Norton > > Below is the only place that will accept attachments > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > My very basic Windows beginners help: > http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: [email protected] >