Since Outlook Express for some reason has no decent export function (unless you count the export to Outlook Express function decent) it is necessary to manually backup Outlook Express messages.
You can just drag and drop them out to a folder, but that’s annoying, and takes more time and effort than should be necessary. Besides, we want to backup everything inside of Outlook Express exactly as it is. Addresses, e-mails, everything.
Surprisingly, this is easy to do. In Windows 2000 and XP the database files for OE are in
Documents and Settings*username*Local SettingsApplication DataIdentities {FDC226AF-4554-4CF0-9CF7-FA2F7C3CF969}MicrosoftOutlook Express
in Windows 98/ME they are in
WINDOWSApplication DataIdentities{D55BB9C0-12C3-11D7-AD3A-C4A8671A7A3C} MicrosoftOutlook Express
Copy all of the files in this directory. Burn them to a CD or whatever. When you want to import them back into your new Outlook Express install, or if your just moving them to a new machine, all you have to do is copy the files into the same directory. NOTE: the {D55BB9C0-12C3-11D7-AD3A-C4A8671A7A3C} part of it will be different on every machine. Just let it overwrite everything in the directory. If there are any messages in Outlook Express already, they will be overwritten.
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