Outlook Express Tips - Saving Your Emails Into Folders

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Okay, so you want to know what she never did?

She never created folders inside her Outlook Express and every single email she ever got and did not delete was kept inside the "Inbox" of Outlook Express. So what, you say?

Ha! It's a BIG program because one day she opened up her Outlook Express to check her email and 50% of the emails had disappeared! She had over 7000 emails inside her Inbox!

Okay, so this is bad. I'm sure you'll agree, that would be a pretty sad day for any of us who treasure our emails. Well, after this happened what do you think she did? Hm???? Think she took that as a warning to go GET HER EMAILS SAVED QUICK?

Nope. Even though she knew it was time to do something and was planning on getting a new laptop she still didn't do something with the email that was inside her OE. Okay, thing was, she always wants me to fix stuff for her and well, I can do a lot of things, but I had never really dug into figuring out how to save emails from your Outlook Express onto a disc for transferring to another PC or just saving them to keep them safe.

So, rather than take my advice and go to a PC tech and get it done, she waited .... and waited... and next thing you know she opens up her Outlook Express email and OH NOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOooooooOOO!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !

ALL of her email had disappeared. GONE - never to be seen again!

Why did this happen and could it be fixed?

One reason it "may" have occurred is because when you place that many files inside a single folder, over time those files are going to become corrupt. In addition she never defragged her PC, with the exception of the time she paid me to do it for her. She never cleaned her email box properly and never saved any emails into folders outside of her Inbox.

Lesson in the story?

Learn how to create folders in your Outlook Express or any email client. Organize your emails into these folders and periodically SAVE them onto a disc.

I will be creating a video soon to show you just how to save your emails onto a disc. For now, you should explore the videos for OE and learn how to create folders if you don't know how. I have a video for that created now.

Click here to watch the video.

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