I want to save everything (all e-mails, etc) in Microsoft Outlook so I can re-install them once I upgrade to visa. (also because I do not want to lose them again)

how do i do this?

2/13/2007 3:12:13 AM

http://www.google.com/search?q=backup+microsoft+outlook
http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm

If you aren't already, I would also recommend a regular backup schedule of those files from the tutorial. I lost all of my NCSU inbox (but not sent items, oddly enough) at one point because I didn't do that.

2/13/2007 7:41:28 AM

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"but not sent items, oddly enough"

sent items and drafts are not stored in the imap store file (unless you set up a rule to do so). they are localized to each machine you use. i used to set up rules to copy them over just in case i lost my pc but haven't bothered lately.

but thats weird you lost your whole ncsu inbox since that is normally stored on their servers and you have a cached version of it on your computer via Outlook. was this back in the POP3 days?


http://www.google.com/search?q=backup+microsoft+outlook

2/13/2007 8:21:00 AM

^
Nah, unrelated ... I had something really funky happen to my machine in Spring 2005. Lost a LOT of stuff as a result. The file I recovered from the incident salvaged the sent items, but the inbox was corrupted. (One of these days I'm going to attend a training seminar / conference which teaches how to salvage HDs and recover data).

Right, I would also recommend a complete system backup in case Vista totally screws something up. Look up some of the other TT threads for Imaging software.

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 12:06 PM. Reason : .]

2/13/2007 12:06:13 PM

Gah, nevermind, should have read one of the earlier posts...

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 2:07 PM. Reason : see above]

2/13/2007 2:04:52 PM