Great work Tricia. The transfer has been successfully completed. Thank you. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "T Lewis" <tricia.lewis@btinternet.com> To: <gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Mail copying? >I go this route on a regular basis for backing up my OE messages. I >also am > able to drag them on the my external hard drive and if need be to my > laptop. > > Go to Windows Explorer first of all I start a new folder on the C > drive or > whatever letter your drive is and call it email backups. Then go to > your > documents and settings and the folder that you use. Open up Local > Settings, > it is important to make sure that you have all hidden files > available to > view. Then Application Data then open Identities that opens a > number folder > click on that and you will see the folder Microsoft click on that > then you > will see the folder Outlook Express. In there is all your folders > with your > emails in, I just then copy all and paste to the email backup > folder. Now > you can copy that across to your laptop and copy it back in to the > Oulook > Express folder by going the same route as you copied it out of open > up OE > and you will see all the emails there. > > regards > Tricia