Hi "anyone" out there incyber space

I have a seperate back up drive (USB Plugin) and would like to know how to backup my emails in  MS outlook to that drive so I can
1. Have readable copy on the backup drive and
2. safely delete emails from my 'C' drive

can anyone help here :'(

Greatly appreciate Tony

If you can't get an answer to your question in this forum you could post the question on the http://www.pchelpforum.com website. I have posted there a couple of times myself with good results.

I've found this place helpfull http://phorums.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=8

You need the software guru here :D

The program you need is called  inachis  http://www.inachis.com/index.htm  yup its free too you dont have to reg it either :D it can save all documents not just emails too!

It zips them all for you but you can only unzip the file with the program so back it up too !

You name it I have it -

He needs to know also how to point the mail client at the USB drive if someone knows where to find that in the mail client's menu.

Also perhaps to understand the differance between compressing his email to it and copying them for reading.

well then thats easy -

download the program
install
set configs for program

Save what you want to a temp folder
click OK

then open up the USB
drag the temp folder to the drive

burn

windows should all ready recognise the USB drive

if not look in my comp - for what the USB assigned drive is  maybe g:\ depends if you had partitions on c:\

No. lol, to use the USB drive as the place the mail client stores things instead of the C drive from what I got out of it.  In addition to backing other things up (I think).  Like where in outlook do you set the location of stored files.  I thinking making sure addresses as well as emails got copied over would be a good measure too.
I don't have a Windows without the hassle of booting up my wife's laptop and then I'de have to play around with the settings and I never used outlook when I was using windows.

They have'nt posted again though so maybe they've figured it out.

it stands to reason that if you what a program on a slave drive you have to have that program on that said drive :

since outlook is a windows program and most programs require .dlls and .ocx files to communicate ( internal server such as outlook has) then it stands to reason that in order for Outlook to work on the slave drive as a stand alone email client then you need to have a basic OS to make the connection to winsock.    

The program itself can stay where it is installed.
They just want the functionality of the program that saves data to point to a location that is not the default location.  This is often acheivable within the GUI.

Or in the registry
http://www.google.com.au/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&q=xp+change+default+location+outlook+save&btnG=Search&meta=lr%3Dlang_en%7Clang_es

I wouldn't do this though, even if the correct version of the software and correct OS are found in that, the software could change in an update without you knowing and you might lose data accidentally.  The windows registry is also intentionally designed to be hard to keep track of which makes things difficult if things need to be undone down the road.

Quoted from MeanDean

  The windows registry is also intentionally designed to be hard to keep track of which makes things difficult if things need to be undone down the road.

:P bah humbug - the registry is really easy to navigate and to set flags into  the GUI is no benefit unless its written as such

Hex edit the GUI of any mail client you will see that.

My compueter doesn't have a registry anymore  :P
*flexes muscles proudly*  ;D

hehehe, this is a pretty funny thing we have going on here though you have to admit.

Quoted from MeanDean

My compueter doesn't have a registry anymore  

Then explain how your BIOS and winsock communicate ?

I got rid of the Winsock too.

UNIX yuck

:P

Quoted from tonyofoz

Hi "anyone" out there incyber space

I have a seperate back up drive (USB Plugin) and would like to know how to backup my emails in  MS outlook to that drive so I can
1. Have readable copy on the backup drive and
2. safely delete emails from my 'C' drive

can anyone help here :'(

Greatly appreciate Tony

Ok, looking at your request it seems that you are after the ability to backup your emails

You will still use the 'C' drive as your default Inbox, but simply want to have an alternate area (your USB device) to use for archive purposes

This is quite easy.

First select the Archive option from Outlook



Then select your USB drive as the place for the Archive folder



You can also select other options here, such as which folders to archive and when to archive from.

Note that some folders have the "Dont archive" option set, but this can be overriden by selecting the "Include items..." checkbox

Just make sure you dont delete the archive file on your USB device!
The file will also have to be writeable...if its read-only you won't be able to access it.