Outlook Express Archiving Strategy
Feb 13, 2004 | 1:06 pm
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Outlook Express Archiving Strategy
Could anyone recommend a strategy for archiving off outlook express emails? At the moment, the emails I've downloaded from my hotmail account alone are taking up over 200MB.
I have two local folders for Hotmail: Important (things like electronic airline tickets) and Read (not so important stuff but I'm nothing if not a hoarder).
The Read mail box is by far the largest. Is there any way to archive off this one folder (just like with Outlook proper)?
Regards
I
I have two local folders for Hotmail: Important (things like electronic airline tickets) and Read (not so important stuff but I'm nothing if not a hoarder).
The Read mail box is by far the largest. Is there any way to archive off this one folder (just like with Outlook proper)?
Regards
I
Feb 13, 2004 | 1:38 pm
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Easy. Right-click on your normal Inbox (not your hotmail Inbox), create a new folder - call it "Old Hotmail" for example. Select your messages in the Hotmail inbox and drag them into the new folder.
Just to make sure - you ARE using Outlook Express to read your Hotmail, right?
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Just to make sure - you ARE using Outlook Express to read your Hotmail, right?
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-alan in sitges, home of the new, improved, and now legendary Si-Re-Do
Feb 13, 2004 | 1:40 pm
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Yup that's exactly what I'm doing. Only problem is, even Outlook Express is taking up too much space now so I'd like to archive some of it off.
Feb 13, 2004 | 1:55 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
200Mb is a problem?
I don't start archiving till I reach 1Gb per PST file
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200Mb is a problem?
I don't start archiving till I reach 1Gb per PST file
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Feb 13, 2004 | 2:02 pm
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Try this: http://www.expressarchiver.com/
Feb 13, 2004 | 2:08 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by usoftie:
Try this: http://www.expressarchiver.com/</font>
Try this: http://www.expressarchiver.com/</font>
Feb 17, 2004 | 12:04 pm
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Outlook stores each of it's folders as a separate dbx file in it's default directory (or whatever directory you have moved it to).
I would set up a third local folder called archive, make sure it's not being set up on the hotmail server, but as a local folder. Move all the messages you want to archive to that folder and delete them from the other one. Then move the archive folder to CD or whatever. Delete the archive folder, shutdown and restart Outlook Express, it will see that there isn't an archive folder and just make an empty one. When you want it back, shutdown Outlook Express, copy it back, restart, and all the messages will be there.
I would set up a third local folder called archive, make sure it's not being set up on the hotmail server, but as a local folder. Move all the messages you want to archive to that folder and delete them from the other one. Then move the archive folder to CD or whatever. Delete the archive folder, shutdown and restart Outlook Express, it will see that there isn't an archive folder and just make an empty one. When you want it back, shutdown Outlook Express, copy it back, restart, and all the messages will be there.
Feb 21, 2004 | 9:47 am
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Thanks to all who replied. Both the above solutions (proposed by usoftie and Cordelli) work extremely well. I selected Cordelli's proposed approach as it is simpler (I'm a big fan of simple things). Now to write a couple of DOS scripts to automate this.