Where Do Exports of Local Folders Go?

[Spring Chicken]

I subscribe to a few newsgroups such as the one this message is posted in. I
periodically save copies of various posts to folders I have created in
Outlook under Local Folders (e.g., LocalFolders\Newsgroups\C#).

I would like to be able to create backups of my local folders and be able to
restore to another machine.

How can I do this? I tried File | Export | messages - which ultimately lets
me select my folders; when I click the [Okay] button, it appears to export
(I see a progress meter increment), and then the export status messages
disappears.

Where does Outlook create the export file? In what file format is the export
file?

Thanks.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

I subscribe to a few newsgroups such as the one this message is posted
in. I periodically save copies of various posts to folders I have
created in Outlook under Local Folders (e.g., LocalFolders\Newsgroups\C#).

I would like to be able to create backups of my local folders and be
able to restore to another machine.

How can I do this? I tried File | Export | messages - which ultimately
lets me select my folders; when I click the [Okay] button, it appears
to export (I see a progress meter increment), and then the export
status messages disappears.

Where does Outlook create the export file? In what file format is the
export file?

You're actually using Outlook Express, not Outlook, to access the newsgroups.
I don't know enough about OE to help you but you might find some useful
information here: http://www.tomsterdam.com.