Backing up email folders
Hi, I need to reinstall my Win XP OS to get rid of all the junk I’ve accumulated; I’ve burnt a DVD with my documents on it, but will my emails be there as well ? if not, how do I preserve them ?
Your emails probably won’t be in My Documents unless you’ve specifically told your system to save them there.
Finding your emails on a Windows system is particularly irritating as the different programs dump them into different folders. In Outlook Express and Windows Mail the address books are also saved in a completely different location.
The best thing is to back up your entire profile, this sits in the Documents and Settings folder on your C: drive and the profile will be either your log in name or something close to it.
By backing up this entire folder, you’ll save your My Documents folder, desktop, web browser bookmarks, address books and email. Just take care that your email folder isn’t so big it won’t fit on a single DVD.
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