email to disc

[entranced]

please could someone explain how i get an email folder...eg 'funny email' onto a disc?.................wow!....how difficult can it be?....have been trying for hours!
Am using windows xp and Outlook express 6.
many thanks you good folk.

[Vagrant]

Short answer is you can't - email folders and disk folders are entirely different things.
However, there is probably a solution to your problem - what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[AlBags]

If you save a folder, it will have to be re-imported to another Outlook Express.
You make a new folder, then place the email inside it. Then look for it in the Outlook Express store (check the path in Tools/Options/Maintenance/Store Folder. Save that container file you see to disc, that will back up the folder.
Alternatively, open the email and File/Save as .eml file to desktop, and burn that.

[Buenchico]

Each Outlook Express 'folder' is really a single file (with the dbx file extension). When Outlook Express opens the file it separate the contents into different emails. However unlike (say) Word, which can access files from any location, OE can only open DBX files from the relevant place within its own folders. (So saving a DBX file to disk, and then double-clicking on it, won't work).

If you want to transfer FunnyEmail.dbx to Outlook Express on another PC, first locate the file and burn it to CD. Then create an empty folder, with the same name, in Outlook Express on the second PC. Close Outlook Express and search for that file. Right-click on the file and select 'open containing folder'. Then drag the 'old' file into that folder, accepting the option to over-write the existing file.

Chris

[entranced]

thanks all,what i am wanting to do is save some of my recieved emails to disc.Part of an ongoing attempt to create space. I appreciate now that its not going to be easy. I know it can be done, as a friend did do it for me years ago.

[entranced]

ok folks i got it....create a file on the desktop....drag and drop the emails[i did them one at a time but maybe could have done abatch at a time.]
many thanks.

[AlBags]

Sounds like you could make a new folder in O E called backup.
Drag in emails you want to keep .. then find the store folder, save/copy the store file of that name to disc.
Or do as you have done (longer process, but good for individual files!)