How to backup Outlook Express by
WinBackup?
Creating an Outlook Express
Backup
Most Windows users should be familiar with Microsoft Outlook
Express. This email program is usually installed with the
Windows operating system and is probably among the most commonly
used email programs today. While using Outlook Express is fairly
easy, finding and backing up the emails can 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 your emails. Outlook Express stores emails in .dbx
files and there might be several different dbx files depending
on how many email folders you have created in Outlook Express.
If you are using Windows 98, you can 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.
Locating the Email Storage 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 can
find the path to the folder containing your emails. To open the
folder, copy the path 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. When using WinBackup, you can
simply skip this step because WinBackup automatically finds your
emails and adds an email icon to the User Data section if you
are using Outlook Express. WinBackup also locates and backs up
your address book, which is often not included in the email
folder.
Backing Up Your Emails
After locating the email folder, you could include this folder
in backups to back up your emails. Make sure that your backup
program does not try to lock the files while running a backup
because this will cause file sharing problems whenever Outlook
Express is running. If you are using WinBackup, this should not
be a problem because WinBackup does not attempt to lock files
and can therefore backup your emails while Outlook Express is
running without causing any file sharing problems. You can also
try to copy the emails to a new folder before running a backup
to avoid file-sharing problems, or you can close Outlook Express
whenever a backup operation is started.
Restoring Your Emails
To restore your emails, locate the email folder as described
above and restore the email files to this folder. If you have
reinstalled Windows, you might have to restore the files to a
different folder and that could possibly cause some problems. If
you are using WinBackup, you can select the emails item on the
Restore page. WinBackup will automatically find the email folder
and restore your emails. WinBackup can also restore your address
book if you select this icon on the Restore page. When restoring
emails, it is important to realize that any existing emails will
be removed unless they are located in folders that do not exist
in the backup.
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