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March 28, 2005
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How to Back Up Mail Folders
Copy the entire folder that contains the .mbx files to another folder:
1. Quit Outlook Express.
2. Create a new folder to store the idx, .mbx, and Folders.nch files in.
For example:
C:\Backup
For information about how to create a folder, click Start, click Help,
click the Index tab, type new folder, and then double-click the New
Folders topic.
NOTE: You do not have to create a new folder, you can use a folder that
already exists.
3. To locate the mail message store folder of Outlook Express 4, click
Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
4. In the Named box, type *.mbx, and then click Find Now. Note the
location of the Inbox.mbx file in the In Folder column of the search
results. These folders are usually found in a location such as:
drive:\Program Files\Outlook Express\username\Mail
drive:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail
drive:\Windows\Profiles\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\Mail
NOTE: There may be more than one Inbox.mbx file, which indicates that
you have mulitiple storage folders. Note the location of all the
Inbox.dbx files, and back up all of the folders that contain .mbx and
.idx files. It is important that you back up the entire contents of the
Outlook Express store folder, especially if you want to import the files
into an updated version of Outlook Express. Without the .idx files, the
.mbx files (which contain the actual messages) cannot be imported into
Outlook Express 5 or later.
5. For each message store folder that you find, copy the folder that
contains the files to the folder that you created in step 2. If the
names of these folders are the same, you can rename them immediately
after you copy them (for example, Mail Backup1, Mail Backup2, or some
other obvious naming scheme.)
For information about how to copy a file, click Start, click Help, click
the Index tab, type copying, and then double-click the Files or folders
topic.
For additional information about backing up mail folders, click Contents
And Index on the Help menu in Outlook Express, click the Index tab, type
backing up mail folders, and then click Display.
Ti view this article online:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188854
"Adam J. Kopff" < adam.kopff@... > 36519
Posted on March 28, 2005 11:14 AM
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