Backing up Outlook Express messages

jztemple · Post by **jztemple** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:14 pm

My wife has a gazillion of email messages (well, quite a lot!) in her Outlook Express application (WinXP). I do backups of her other critical files just in case, but I'm wondering how to back up the messages to a CD. Yes, I know I could just use an external hard drive or Norton Ghost, but I was looking for some why just to isolate the messages for purposes of backing them up, and perhaps also tranfering a copy of them to her new laptop. I looked at the OE export options but I don't see something like regular Outlook where I can export to a .pst file format.

Do I need to upgrade to regular Outlook to get this function?

ChrisGwinn · Post by **ChrisGwinn** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:14 pm

I suppose it depends on what version of Outlook Express you're using, but there's a File->Export command that should do the trick.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:21 pm

Here's a pretty detailed tutorial.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:24 pm

I use OE Backup Wizard. Free trial and it works perfectly and easily.

http://www.outlook-express-backup.com

Great little program.

egrudzin · Post by **egrudzin** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:52 pm

If possible you may just want to switch to the full version of Outlook. It may be overkill but at least it allows you to store everything in a personal folder file (.pst) and then back that up. I have a .pst stored in My Documents, so that whenever I back that up I get all my email stuff as well.

If you run Outlook you can have it automatically import all of the junk from Express and then set up a .pst for it.

I find it very annoying that there is no easy built-in backup in Outlook Express...