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steve

Hi -

I'm using entourage as a part of Office X on a Mac and have a lot of
emails in my inbox. What I'd like to do (since some of these emails
may be required at some future point) is to make a copy of the inbox
as it is today (to a CD for example) and then delete all those that
are not currently important so as to make the inbox more manageable. I
can't figure out which file I need to save or where it is opn the
system. I would have expected this to be a relativelt simple task -
but clearlyt I am more simple than the system!

Any help much appreciated.....
 
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Michel Bintener

Hi,

simply drag the inbox from Entourage's folder list to the desktop, and
you'll get a standard .mbox file which you can then burn to a CD. Many
e-mail clients on the Mac (in addition to Entourage) can read the .mbox file
format, which is yet another advantage of that method.


Hi -

I'm using entourage as a part of Office X on a Mac and have a lot of
emails in my inbox. What I'd like to do (since some of these emails
may be required at some future point) is to make a copy of the inbox
as it is today (to a CD for example) and then delete all those that
are not currently important so as to make the inbox more manageable. I
can't figure out which file I need to save or where it is opn the
system. I would have expected this to be a relativelt simple task -
but clearlyt I am more simple than the system!

Any help much appreciated.....
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***
 
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Darlene

Hi -

I'm using entourage as a part of Office X on a Mac and have a lot of
emails in my inbox. What I'd like to do (since some of these emails
may be required at some future point) is to make a copy of the inbox
as it is today (to a CD for example) and then delete all those that
are not currently important so as to make the inbox more manageable. I
can't figure out which file I need to save or where it is opn the
system. I would have expected this to be a relativelt simple task -
but clearlyt I am more simple than the system!

Any help much appreciated.....
Click to expand...

Create a folder on the desktop called inbox and open the inbox folder
and Entourage and select all of the email and drag to the emails to
the folder that you had created, this will make a copy of the all the
emails in the inbox.
 
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steve

thank you both - I honestly didn't think it would be that simple!

now I can clear out all that stuff I'm only ever going to need the day
after I delete it!
 
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