Hi

I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the
folder structure.

I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as
individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the
folders may have over 100 emails ...

TIA
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Sue Compelling

Sue Compelling wrote:

> I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the
> folder structure.
>
> I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as
> individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the
> folders may have over 100 emails ...

There are no folders in Outlook's message store. There is a hierarchy or
grouping of records in the database (.pst) file that is exposed in a tree
view. The use of "folder" in Outlook is a borrowing of the file system
hierarchy to explain the organization of records in Outlook. There is just
the .pst database file for Outlook's message store. It's all inside that
file. There are no file system folders within Outlook's message store.

Thanks ... now understand that these are virtual folders
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Sue Compelling


"VanguardLH" wrote:

> Sue Compelling wrote:
>
> > I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the
> > folder structure.
> >
> > I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as
> > individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the
> > folders may have over 100 emails ...
>
> There are no folders in Outlook's message store. There is a hierarchy or
> grouping of records in the database (.pst) file that is exposed in a tree
> view. The use of "folder" in Outlook is a borrowing of the file system
> hierarchy to explain the organization of records in Outlook. There is just
> the .pst database file for Outlook's message store. It's all inside that
> file. There are no file system folders within Outlook's message store.
> .
>

Sue Compelling wrote:

> Thanks ... now understand that these are virtual folders

There could be some 3rd party add-on for Outlook that would export a Outlook
"folder" (and all items and subfolders under it) to mirror that hierarchy in
a real folder on the hard disk. I haven't heard of one but then I haven't
been searching for one.

Someone over at www.outlookcode.com might know of a free macro that you
could add to Outlook that would walk through the selected "folder" in
Outlook's message store and mimic it in your file system. There are forums
over there where you could ask for help on getting one already built or
sweet talk someone into writing one for you.

There is a lot of functionality that can be added to Outlook through macros.
For example, there is http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/email_archiver/ ($49)
which might do what you want (not as folders in your file system but as an
external HTML archive that you might be able to look at using a web browser
besides their viewer).

"Sue Compelling" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:45F2912B-65DE-48E0-833C-(E-Mail Removed)...

> I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the
> folder structure.

One of the tools here may do the job:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail_tools.asp
In particular, look at http://www.mailfiler.com/
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]