Do I have to copy all emails to Word before I can save to them my external hard drive?

Question

I have bought an external hard drive as a security measure. I want to save my family pictures/photographs. Also I would like to move some of my emails to this device, However, I understand I will not be able to read the emails if I just move the files with their content, and that I will need to copy their content to Word or similar and them move those docs over is this correct as it will take quite sometime to do this?

Answer 1

Hello,

(ANS) No! matter what kind of email program (email client) you are using, all programs have a "file save as" option. If your using Outlook or Outlook Express, then this option can be found on the "File" Menu, see Save As, save an individual message as a .EML file extension. Meaning you can save your messages from inside the email program to a location on your hard disk drive, where ever you want to put them.

**I think you will find all email programs allow you to save messages outside of the email program to your external drive.

**NOTE: You may NOT be able to save messages in bulk though, so if you do have alot of emails it could be a time consuming task.

Hope that helps?

Kind Regards Ivan

Answer 2

There are several methods to back up your emails.
1) Open Windows Explorer and navigate to where your emails are stored. On the Windows Explorer menu, click View, Explorer Bar, then Folders. Scroll down the folders list until you see your external drive letter. Now select the emails you want to copy and drag them over to the external drive.

2) To save individual emails, when you are viewing them, click File, Save As and browse to your external drive.

3) Run Windows Backup or your favorite backup program. This should be done frequently anyway to back up all your important files.

Answer 3

Your easiest option is to use the "file - save as" option in your email program. ave the files as emails (.eml format) and save them to a folder on your hard drive that you can copy as part of your back-up routine. Then you can restore them and open at will.
As a second line I also extract the content of some emails, such as those containing registration codes, and save the important content in a text file I can back up as well.

Answer 4

It depends which email client you use. Emails are stored in certain files located in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Application Data or Local Settings e.g.

Outlook = .pst
Outlook Express = .dbx

Answer 5

No! Go to the control panel go to mail and find the source of where your emails are kept therefore you will be able to save them

Answer 6

quite some all human beings is having this subject of entire blocks of digital mail vanishing Yahoo have no theory why. The form of folk on right here who lose substantial mail, photograph's, rfile's et al is staggering. the 1st rule of computers is make a back up. the 2d is..yet another one Hardrives die, reminiscence sticks die, mail is going lacking, with one million Tb drives on the fee they're now it is not that costly. extra useful secure than sorry.