I have done this before when reformatting my hard drive, but for some reason I remember it taking forever to find out how do it, so I thought I would just ask here. I need to transfer old emails in outlook to another cpu. Can someone tell me an easy way to do this? Thanks!
There are programs for free you can download to do this for you. I've always just searched "backup outlook' in google and searched through the first few links that pop up. I've used a couple of different ones and they all seem to work pretty good.
Not sure if it's changed on newer versions (not even sure what version you have) but... Check the File Menu for a tab marked "Import/Export", IIRC. I remember it being pretty intuitive after you get there. You can export any/all folders to a .pst (outlook) file if you're going to reimport them into outlook; you can also dump stuff into a .csv or other file if you want to import them into another program.
Thanks, That's right.... I guess I'm not intuitive This part is tripping me up. What do I do when I get to "Create a file of type"? Anyone?
Create the file as a Personal Folder (aka .PST). Then just copy the file off the computer somewhere safe and import later.
"Personal Folder File (.pst)" Select Inbox as the folder to export from. Click on the "Browse..." button at the top-right of the next window and navigate to a folder you would like to save your backup file to. Finish.
Doh. When I was browsing for the folder to export from, for some reason I thought I was already exporting and was confused to why it was limiting me to those folders. Thanks for clearing that up. I got it. THANKS EVERYONE!
