Backup OE 6.0 mail WinXP Home Ed

I've look all throu postings and can't find how to backup outlook express 6.0 Mail and folders. Can some help.

thank you

 

Have a look at the sticky in this forum titled Transferring Outlook Express.

 

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I tryed this did a search like it said and don't have this files on my computer.

type *.mbx

I did all whats in the info poste by sticky don't work.

How to Back Up Mail Folders
Copy the entire folder that contains the .mbx files to another folder: 1. Quit Outlook Express.
2. Create a new folder to store the idx, .mbx, and Folders.nch files in. For example:
C:\Backup
For information about how to create a folder, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type new folder, and then double-click the New Folders topic.

NOTE: You do not have to create a new folder, you can use a folder that already exists.
3. To locate the mail message store folder of Outlook Express 4, click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
4. In the Named box, type *.mbx, and then click Find Now. Note the location of the Inbox.mbx file in the In Folder column of the search results. These folders are usually found in a location such as:
drive:\Program Files\Outlook Express\username\Mail
drive:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail
drive:\Windows\Profiles\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail
NOTE: There may be more than one Inbox.mbx file, which indicates that you have mulitiple storage folders. Note the location of all the Inbox.dbx files, and back up all of the folders that contain .mbx and .idx files. It is important that you back up the entire contents of the Outlook Express store folder, especially if you want to import the files into an updated version of Outlook Express. Without the .idx files, the .mbx files (which contain the actual messages) cannot be imported into Outlook Express 5 or later.
5. For each message store folder that you find, copy the folder that contains the files to the folder that you created in step 2. If the names of these folders are the same, you can rename them immediately after you copy them (for example, Mail Backup1, Mail Backup2, or some other obvious naming scheme.)

For information about how to copy a file, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type copying, and then double-click the Files or folders topic.

 

bobm735--The article referring to .mbx is for OE4 and/or Win98. For more modern versions of either try this article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670/
Or use the OEBackup program.

 

bobm735: Here's a handy little FREE utility that will back up OE folders to any location you choose, HD, Floppy, CD or ??.

OEQuickBackup

 

Just saw this and really haven't read all the posts or followed any links but your Outlook Express mail folders are .dbx - you can copy them to any place you want for safe keeping but they will be unreadable until they are put back into Outlook Express at some future date. There is also a tool in Outlook express that permits you to change your message store and that too will permit backup. Good Luck but be careful wherever you have been getting your information.

 

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Work great found the .dbx folder and copied it to a folder thank you .

 

Bob:

There should be a few, as in more than one. Would hate to see you coming up half empty at some future point in time.

 

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ok thank you