More Backup Nags

A couple of things before I continue our Backing Up adventure.

Often I receive requests from Good Booters for a recommendation of someone willing to come to their home and teach Word and other Microsoft Office programs for a reasonable price. I’ve someone. If you’re in need e-mail me for information.

And for those struggling to create folders and subfolder in XP and Vista, you can e-mail me for my Computing Journal covering the subject in detail. However, if a "Reply" to your e-mail requires my e-mail address to be added to your "friendly" e-mail list, best you do it in advance.

Okay, on with our backing up adventure.

To backup your Outlook program, create a My Document or Document subfolder - Outlook. Now go to www.microsoft.com and search for "Outlook Backup". Microsoft offers an excellent free Outlook backup utility. When it’s installed it’ll relocate a backup copy of your Outlook files to your Outlook sub directory.

If you’re willing to spend $39, www.ajsystems.com provides two utilities: Express Assistant to completely backup and restore Outlook Express and Windows Mail and Outback Plus 6 to backup and restore Outlook. They’re excellent, user friendly programs. You can download trial version of each.

There are many ways to save individual, important e-mail, but here’s a real simple way to get started. Create an "Important E-mail" My Documents or Documents sub folder.

Note: As you accumulate important e-mail you can organize e-mail by subject in sub folders of your "Important e-mail" sub folder.

Now with Outlook and Windows Mail: Open an e-mail and click File > Save As. And save the e-mail as a .txt (text file) in the appropriate My Documents or Documents sub folder.
With Outlook Express: Open an E-mail, highlight the text and Copy and Past it into Word Pad or your word processing program. Save it to the appropriate sub folder. Alternately you can open an E-Mail, click File > Save As and save it as an .eml or .htm file, but .eml can only be opened and read by Outlook Express and .htm may not display all the content. Saving an e-mail as a text file is your best option.

And with Web Mail e.g., Gmail: Open the E-mail, highlight the text and Copy and Past the text into a word processing program. Save it to the appropriate sub folder.

For Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series go to: www. news-press.com/ goodboot.