Back Up Outlook Express
If you use Outlook Express to send and receive your business emails, then it’s a good idea to back up the messages that you save in OE. So for those of you who may not know just how to do that, here are some easy-to-follow instructions.
- Go to the Tools menu and choose Options.
- Click on the Maintenance tab and choose Store Folder.
- Highlight and copy the folder location that you see there.
- Click Cancel, and then click cancel again to close that window.
- Go to your computer’s Start menu and then click Run.
- In the box that says Open, press CTRL+V to paste in your copied folder location. Then click OK.
- From the Edit menu, choose Select All, then choose Copy, then close that window.
- Go to your desktop and right-click on any empty space. Choose New, then choose Folder.
- Type in “Mail Backup” for the new folder’s name, and then hit Enter on your keyboard.
- Double click the Mail Backup folder you created to open it.
- From the Edit menu, click Paste.
- Now you’re done, so close the Mail Backup folder.
I suggest creating a back-up once per week–once per month at the very least. The more emails you save, the more often you should back-up.
