backing-up e-mails

chakka35 | 10:29 Wed 07th Sep 2005 | Technology

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When I try to back-up e-mail messages onto disk they always come out in coded form - a mass of symbols (mostly little squares) in which the message is embedded. How do I turn this code back into normal text?

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Tritan

which email client are you using? If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express, you should Export the emails to a file, and then back up that file to disk. This does work as I use this method often to backup my mailbox.

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chakka35

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Thanks Tritan. I'll try that.

quickthinker

To back up Outlook emails, look for an outlook.pst file and other files within the same directory ( there may also be an archive.pst file ), their will be about 5 files in total. copy these to CD, heypresto its backed up.

If you re-install Windows just copy these files over the the new installation of Outlook and all you emails suddenly appear !

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