Why not emails?

[woodelf]

I can copy and paste/transfer documents, etc from my Windows Explorer 'personal' directory to a memory stick, but why can't I do the same with emails in my in-box to a memory stick...unless I'm missing something? Ta Muchly.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure what you are trying to do. E-mails in an inbox form part of a larger data file. If you turn off your e-mail client and copy the data file over, you can do that. But individual e-mails are not individual files so no, you can't just drag them anywhere to copy/move them. Most e-mail clients have some kind of export / back-up feature though. Try looking through the menus to see what yours offers.

[VHG]

If I want to keep an email I use copy and paste to copy the text from an email into a Word Document or Notepad document.

I then save the Word or Notepad document as a file that can be backed up like any other file.

[woodelf]

Many Thanks OG!...I have some very important emails I wish to keep safe and I thought an external device such as a memory stick would be the answer, in case owt happens to my pc, but I'll look into your export/back up thingy...smile.

[commoner]

In Windows Live Mail ..Win 7......fully open the email and top left is an icon to save the email as a file to wherever you wish...neat.

You don't however say which email client you are using?

[woodelf]

Yes vhg, I may very well have to do as you do. Commoner, I use Outlook Express 6.

[AlBags]

Just save as normal in other programs as an .eml file to wherever you want.

[commoner]

There is always a more professional approach if it's really important ......use software maybe like this...30 day trial.

http://www.mail2disk....5Omia0CFQUhtAodNHrQnw

[AlBags]

That would be nice ... if he actually used Outlook.

[commoner]

...mmm...ehem!...sorry Al...my mistake there....maybe this would do it then ;-)

http://download.cnet....-2242_4-10057728.html

[woodelf]

Many Thanks Guys, but I think the easiest way for me is to open the emails, select all then copy and paste to my doc directory...laborious it may be, but at least I know they'll be there and can then copy to memory stick...Ta once again though!