The full version of Outlook has an archival feature. Outlook Express does not. There is not a way to archive old email in Outlook Express. That is why I paid the for the full version of Outlook. Best Buy or Circuit City should have Outlook separate from the rest of the Microsoft Office Suite. Al Salz -----Original Message----- From: evelyn b cooper [mailto:ebcooper@juno.com] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:03 PM To: NYNIAGAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: How can I archive personal messages? Please answer to the list, as I'd like to know this too. Evelyn, in Colorado On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:25:08 -0500 "Vee L. Housman" <housman@adelphia.net> writes: > > Dear Group, > > What with all of the wonderful messages that I've received over the > past > number of months, I've found that I just can't bring myself to > delete any of > them. As a result, they're still on my computer taking up a LOT of > space. > > What I want to do is to copy all of the messages in all of my > folders and > save them onto a ZIP disk. That way I could delete all but the most > recent > ones and free up a bunch of megabytes. > > This evening I was able to at least find where the individual > folders (where > I file my email messages) on my C drive and I was hoping that I > could just > copy the contents of the files onto a ZIP disk. Well, I found them > in > C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express but all of the > folders > have the extention .DBX and I can't access them into a word > processing > program so that I can read them. > > I use Microsoft Outlook Express as my email program(?) and if any of > you > have > had any success in copying onto disk the whole lot, I'd appreciate > some > advice. Yes, I know that I could cut and paste each and every email > into a > word processing program but even if I had all the time in the world > to go > through each and every one, all that I've been able to manage to do > is > select only the body of the message, which doesn't include who it > was from > nor the date. > > Help???? > vee > > > > ==== NYNIAGAR Mailing List ==== > A list of Town, Village, and City Historians for Niagara County is > at > <http://hometown.aol.com/Moecow/index12.html>. > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ==== NYNIAGAR Mailing List ==== A list of Town, Village, and City Historians for Niagara County is at <http://hometown.aol.com/Moecow/index12.html>.