Viruses, software failures, power failures, human errors, hard drive failures are only a few examples of what could destroy the data on a hard drive, including all documents, pictures, emails and other files!
Most home computer users dont need an expensive backup solution; as they only absolutely need to burn the folders with important documents and pictures to a CD-RW from measure
to time; this ensuring that in case of a disaster they can easily get them back. Togeder with documents and pictures, its a critical operation to save the emails, attachments, address book and other important data from within the e-mail client; otherwise in case of a computer problem the user will find himself in the impossibility to get them back, and this may be a really unwanted situation especially for webmasters or many people
who rely on their emails. Unfortunately many people actually start to do backup copies only after they lose data.This article will explain how one might
create a Outlook Express Backup copy ( as Outlook Express lacks a backup function ) This email program is usually installed with the Windows operating system and is most likely among the most almost always
used e mail programs today. While using Outlook Express is fairly user friendly, finding and backing up the emails could be
a little more complicated. Since there are a large number of files and folders on a computer running Windows, the first problem is to find the files containing the emails. Outlook Express stores emails in .dbx files and there might be several different dbx files depending on how many e mail folders you have created in Outlook Express. If you are using Windows 98, you might
probably locate your emails somewhere in the Windows directory. In Windows 2000 and XP, emails are usually stored somewhere in the user data or application data folder.
The easiest way to find out exactly where your emails are stored is to start Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu, and open the Options dialog box. In the Options dialog box, select the Maintenance page and click the Store Folder button. . Here you may find the roadway
to the folder containing your emails. To open the folder, copy the road and paste in the address field of the Windows File Manager. You should see a number of .dbx files and possibly some other files, too.
After locating the electronic mail
folder, you might
simply select all the files and press Ctrl-C. Then open the folder where you want to keep the backup copies (on another hard disk, a DVD or a network drive, for example) in Windows Explorer, and press Ctrl-V. To backup the Address Book, you may follow these steps:
a.. Select Tools | Address Book... from the menu in Outlook Express.
b.. Choose File | Export | Other Address Book...from the address books menu.
c.. Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) as the export format.
d.. Click Export.
e.. Select the location you want to export your address book to using the Browse... button.
f.. Give your backup copy a meaningful name.
g.. Click Next.
h.. Select the fields you want to add
in your backup.
i.. Finally, select Finish.
j.. Click OK.
k.. Click Close to finish
the process (successfully, Ihope
