Extracting Outlook Express Messages

Greetings,

After the Tropical Storm the other day with the OE backups, I came across an interesting program that allows us to save our OE messages as individual files. I have had a few people ask me about this over the years, and now I have an inexpensive solution for them.

DBXtract is a cool program that cost me $5.00 to download. The program allows us to save an entire folder of email messages as individual files with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Why would we want to do this when we can just save them in our OE files? We have backups don't we? What good is this?

Great questions, I am so glad you asked! First as we have learned our backups won't always save us. Second, sometimes we just need to save a bunch of messages and delete them from our OE files, but we are sure we will need them at some time. Archiving email with OE is not easy to do, though I have a new idea on archiving that I am in the process of testing.

With DBXtract, you can save multiple emails as individual files and then burn those files to a CD and store them forever. I have a few projects that I have worked on in the past, that are now complete. I thought about deleted all the emails relating to these projects, though I hesitated doing so in case I ever need to refer back to them.

Using DBXtract, I saved the folder with all the emails (over 100 of them) and made a folder on my hard drive for them and burned a copy to put in the client file. If I ever need them, they are there. I have deleted the emails from my OE folders.

Let me know what you think,

Marc