How To Backup Your Email In Outlook Express

If you have important emails you need to keep copies of, here is how you can make backups of your emails (in case anything happens to your computer).

Saving Copies Of Emails In Outlook Express

  • Open Outlook Express
  • Find your mail folder by clicking ‘Tools’ then ‘Options’
  • You will be presented with the ‘Options’ dialog box
  • Click on the ‘Maintenance’ tab

example 1

  • Select the ‘Store Folder’ button
  • You will now see the ‘Store Location’ dialog box - highlight the entire content in that box by right clicking, select all, then right click, then copy

example 2

  • After copying the location, click ‘Cancel’
  • Paste the location to Notepad (or any text editor)

Look at the location of the mail and then right click on your ‘Start’ button for your Windows operating system Start Menu and click ‘Explore’ to access Windows Explorer. For example: If your location begins with - C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\ - you would double click the Local Disk (C):, then find the ‘Windows’ Folder, click that to open the contents, then click the ‘Application Data’ folder to open the contents, then click the ‘Identities’ folder to reveal the contents, you should then see the alpha/numeric file folder that was indicated in your mail location. Keep clicking the folders within that folder til you reach the ‘Outlook Express’ folder. Open that folder up and you should see a bunch of .dbx files - these are all the files you need to backup.

Right click on the Outlook Express folder and send to ‘A:’ to copy to a floppy or right click and copy to paste into a backup folder on your computer. It is recommended that you keep copies of all important documents and files on a floppy disk - just in case your computer crashes.

This may seem somewhat complicated, but it really isn’t. It’s just a matter of finding where your emails are stored on your computer, going to that location then copying the emails to a floppy or another location.

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