| Email loss causes majority of business loss, | | | | |
| to overcome the common problem the backup of | | | | 4. In the Options dialog box, Select the |
| Outlook Express mails can be taken regularly | | | | Maintenance page |
| and this article is aimed at explaining you | | | | |
| how you can backup your Outlook Express mails | | | | 5. Click the Store Folder button. Here you |
| (Since, Outlook Express lacks a backup | | | | can find the path to the folder containing |
| option). Outlook Express the widely used | | | | your emails. To open the folder, copy the |
| email program is usually installed with the | | | | path and paste in the address field of the |
| Windows operating system. Outlook Express is | | | | Windows File Manager. You should see a number |
| fairly easy to use, but finding and backing | | | | of .dbx files (depending upon the number of |
| up the emails can be a little more | | | | folders created) and possibly some other |
| complicated. Since there are a large number | | | | files, too. After locating the email folder, |
| of files and folders on a computer running | | | | you can simply select all the files, copy |
| Windows, the first problem is to find the | | | | them and paste it to a new location or you |
| files containing the emails. Outlook Express | | | | can take the backup on another hard disk, a |
| stores emails in .dbx files and it stores and | | | | CDRW, a DVD or a network drive.How to backup |
| maintains different dbx files depending upon | | | | Address Book |
| the email folders created in Outlook | | | | |
| Express.In Windows 98, you can probably | | | | 1. Select Tools >> Address Book... from the |
| locate your emails somewhere in the Windows | | | | menu in Outlook Express. |
| directory. In Windows 2000 and XP, emails are | | | | |
| usually stored somewhere in the user data or | | | | 2. Choose File >> Export >> Other Address |
| application data folder. The common reasons | | | | Book... from the address book's menu. |
| for email loss are virus attack, software | | | | |
| malfunction, power failures, human error and | | | | 3. Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) |
| hard drive failure.One can easily save and | | | | as the export format. |
| backup the emails, attachments, address book | | | | |
| and other important data from within the | | | | 4. Click Export. |
| email client to a CDRW or DVD; otherwise in | | | | |
| case of a computer problem the user will find | | | | 5. Select the location you want to export |
| himself in the impossibility to get them | | | | your address book to using the browse... |
| back, and this can be a really unwanted | | | | button. |
| situation especially for web community or | | | | |
| people who rely on their emails. | | | | 6. Give your backup copy a meaningful name. |
| Unfortunately the common practice among us is | | | | |
| that we actually start to do backup copies | | | | 7. Click Next. |
| only after we lose data.The simple way to | | | | |
| find out and locate the actual path where | | | | 8. Select the fields you want to include in |
| your emails are stored is as follows | | | | your backup. |
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| 1. Start Outlook Express | | | | 9. Select Finish. |
| | | | |
| 2. Go to the Tools menu, | | | | 10. Click OK to finish.If you have not |
| | | | backed up you emails so, take a backup now. |
| 3. Open the Options dialog box. | | | | |