A guide of Outlook Express backup
This post will be about the use of Outlook Express Backup. There are many reasons why you might need to backup your outlook express files. The most common reason is if your computer crashes and you lose all of your emails and any other file that was stored on it. So it's important to backup these types of files regularly so you don't lose anything important when something like this happens.
Fortunately, Microsoft provides a free utility for backing up Outlook Express which is called Windows Data Protection (Windows DP). This utility can be used to back up all types of data stored in the Outlook Express folder, not just email messages but contact information, calendars, tasks, notes etc. It can also save the information in a compressed file which is more space efficient.
Steps to Backup Outlook Express:
1. Download the Windows DP package from Microsoft and install it on the computer. See below link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/default.asp?v=9533
2. Right click on My Computer and select Properties in the menu that appears. This will open up a new window similar to below screenshot. Select your Outlook Express drive that you wish to backup and click Properties next to it as seen in above screenshot: [cid:image009 source="" width="" height="" align="left"]3[/cid:image009]
4. Right under the General tab you will see a button that says "Back up now" as seen in the above screenshot. Click on this button and wait untill it is finished backing up your Outlook Express files. This process may take a while depending on how many files you need to backup.
5. Once the backup is finished, open My Computer again and go to your outlook express drive (usually Local Disk (C:) > Outlook Express Drive). You should see a file called Windows Data Protection > Windows Data Protection1 as seen in above screenshot. Double click on this file. This will open up the .udl file which is a backup of all your Outlook Express settings, emails, notes etc. If you ever need to restore these files, just start Windows Data Protection and choose "Restore" options in the menu to restore it back to where it was before.
6. You can also compress this backup using the "Compress" button as seen in above screenshot which will create a smaller file that doesn't take much space on your hard drive.
7. You can also choose "Restore" option again to restore all the settings and emails etc. back to Outlook Express. Just double click on your .udl file again and follow the instruction to restore it back.
8. You can check that all your emails are back by opening outlook express and then going to tools > prgrams > outlook express > settings as seen in above screenshot. If they are all there, you have successfully backed up your Outlook Express files successfully!
9. Check out the last section below for how to restore your settings back from a backup without losing any emails, etc.
Tips:
- This process will also backup your .dbx files as well which are used by Outlook Express to store your settings and emails. A .dbx file is just a backup of that email and all it's settings. It is included in the .udl file as seen in above screenshot. This way you can restore all the emails back by first restoring the ".udl" file using "Restore" option as mentioned in steps 1 to 6 above or if Windows Data Protection was uninstalled, you can restore them using Outlook Express -> File -> Open & Export... -> Mail -> Restore -> OK. Just choose the .dbx file which will have all your emails in it and then follow the wizard to restore it back.
7. You can also restore individual emails using "Restore" option in Outlook Express too. If you lost a single email, you can use this method to restore one by one without going through the whole .udl file.
8. If you wish to restore all the emails back at once, you can do that too. Just use "Restore" option under Outlook Express and press "OK" when it asks where you want the email messages to be placed on your computer.
9. You can limit the number of emails that are restored by using a wild card pattern such as *.domain_name.com in the "Restore" option in Outlook Express as seen above screenshot.[/ARTICLE]
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