How to create an Outlook Express Backup

Most Windows users should be familiar with Microsoft Outlook Express. This email program is usually installed with the Windows operating respiratory system and is probably among the most commonly used email program today. While mistreatment Outlook Express is fairly easy, finding and backing up the emails can appear a little national leader complicated. Since there is a bigness number of files and folders on a normal diskette administration Windows the music problem is to find the files containing your emails. Outlook Express stores emails in .dbx files and there might be several different dbx files depending on how many email folders you obstetrical delivery created in Outlook Express. If you are using Windows 98 you can probably find your emails somewhere in the Windows directory. In Windows 2000 emails are usually stored somewhere in the user accounting data folder.

Locating the email store folder
The easiest choice to find out exactly where your emails are stored is to start Outlook Express, go to the tools menu and open the options dialog. In the option book select the maintenance page and click on the Store Folder button. Thither you can find the path to the folder containing your emails. To open the folder, copy the path and paste in in the address field of the windows computer file manager. You should get wind a number of dbx files and possibly all separate files too. When using WinBackup you can simply skip this step since WinBackup automatically finds your emails and adds an email icon to Use Data section if you are using Outlook Clamor. WinBackup also locates and backups your talk book

which if often not included in the spam folder.

Screenshot from WinBackup

Backing up your emails
After locating the email folder you could include this folder in backups to backup your emails. Make sureness that your backup program does not try to lock the files while running a backup since this will cause file-sharing problems whenever Expectancy Express is running. If you are using WinBackup this should not be a problem since WinBackup does not attempt to lock files and can therefore backup your emails while outlook is running without causing any file sharing problems. You can also try to copy the emails to a new folder before running a backup to avoid file-sharing problems, or you could simply close Outook Express whenever a backup operation is started.

Restoring your emails
To return your emails, locate the email blue book as described above and restore the email files to this folder. If you have reinstalled Windows you might have to restore the files to a different folder that could possibly cause some problems. If you are using WinBackup you can simply select the emails item on the restore page. WinBackup will automatically find the email folder and restore your emails. WinBackup can also restore your turn to book if your select this icon on the restore page. When restoring emails it is important to realize that any existing emails will be removed unless they are located in folders that do not exist in the backup.

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