Backing up/saving Outlook email "seamlessly"?

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chale4

Hello--I am new to this group; sorry in advance if this is a hopelessly
tired query. I want to know how to back up and save sent and received
email in Outlook (on machine running Win 2000). I know this ultimately
has to do with the .pst files, but I'm apparently needing to know more
than that. By "seamlessly", what I mean is, I would like to save
pounds of sent and received emails (and then dump out my "current" .pst
file of course, which is getting too large) onto e.g. a CD-R or two,
and I'd like for those saved emails to be just as "accessible" later
on, as they are now. I.e., I can search them (date, sender's name,
etc.) just like I can now in Outlook, only they're really "offline" and
resident only on that CD-R. Boy, would I like to know how to do that.
Do I need to buy some software out there to accomplish this sort of
utility, or is there some way in Windows to get this?

Again, sorry if this is a tired old topic. If someone can send me to
the place where this topic is discussed, I'll sure go there. Thanks in
advance--
C. Hale, Lafayette CO
 
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Chuck Davis

-----Original Message-----
Hello--I am new to this group; sorry in advance if this is a hopelessly
tired query. I want to know how to back up and save sent and received
email in Outlook (on machine running Win 2000). I know this ultimately
has to do with the .pst files, but I'm apparently needing to know more
than that. By "seamlessly", what I mean is, I would like to save
pounds of sent and received emails (and then dump out my "current" .pst
file of course, which is getting too large) onto e.g. a CD-R or two,
and I'd like for those saved emails to be just as "accessible" later
on, as they are now. I.e., I can search them (date, sender's name,
etc.) just like I can now in Outlook, only they're really "offline" and
resident only on that CD-R. Boy, would I like to know how to do that.
Do I need to buy some software out there to accomplish this sort of
utility, or is there some way in Windows to get this?

Again, sorry if this is a tired old topic. If someone can send me to
the place where this topic is discussed, I'll sure go there. Thanks in
advance--
C. Hale, Lafayette CO

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Use this Microsoft add-in:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en
 
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Brian Tillman

chale4 said:
By "seamlessly", what I mean is, I
would like to save pounds of sent and received emails (and then dump
out my "current" .pst file of course, which is getting too large)
onto e.g. a CD-R or two, and I'd like for those saved emails to be
just as "accessible" later on, as they are now. I.e., I can search
them (date, sender's name, etc.) just like I can now in Outlook, only
they're really "offline" and resident only on that CD-R.
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There's no way to meet these specifications. Outlook requires write access
to any PST it opens. Thus, in order to be able to search the PSTs you've
placed on CD, you'll have to copy them back to HD prior to opening them.
 
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chale4

Brian said:
There's no way to meet these specifications. Outlook requires write access
to any PST it opens. Thus, in order to be able to search the PSTs you've
placed on CD, you'll have to copy them back to HD prior to opening them.
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Thanks for your inputs on this, guys. I'll check out the Outlook 2003
Add-in thing, thanks. I can see what you're saying, Brian, makes sense
(sure seems like an area ripe for entreprenuerial advance, tho, I'd
say...). It strikes me that maybe one of the most "functional" ways to
go about this sort of archiving is to just simply devote a cheap hard
drive to it (perhaps backed up "for sure" on CD-Rs) and keep all one's
old .pst files on it as an "accessible archive"? Does that make sense?
Charley Hale
 
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Brian Tillman

chale4 said:
It strikes me that maybe one of the most "functional"
ways to go about this sort of archiving is to just simply devote a
cheap hard drive to it (perhaps backed up "for sure" on CD-Rs) and
keep all one's old .pst files on it as an "accessible archive"? Does
that make sense?
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It makes plenty of sense, in my opinion.
 
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