Saving Personal folders to your hard drive

[Kaylen]

I'm using Outlook 2003. I organized my emails into personal folders. Is there
a way to save a particular personal folder and all its emails contents to the
hard drive as a file folder in case I need to refer to that folder in the far
future? Any help is appreciated.

 

[Gordon]

I'm using Outlook 2003. I organized my emails into personal folders. Is
there
a way to save a particular personal folder and all its emails contents to
the
hard drive as a file folder in case I need to refer to that folder in the
far
future? Any help is appreciated.

Personal Folders files are ALREADY saved on your HDD. Do you mean that you
want to save the data in some format that will be capable of being read by
something other than Outlook?

 

[DL]

All your Personal Folders are allready saved to the HD, in the form of *.pst
files
These files can be opened by Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007, but not in
earlier versions
Other than that, not sure what you mean

 

[Kaylen]

Yes, that is what I meant. I want to save the data in some format that will
be capable of being read by something other than Outlook. Is this possible?
If so, how?

 

[Gordon]

Yes, that is what I meant. I want to save the data in some format that
will
be capable of being read by something other than Outlook. Is this
possible?
If so, how?

If the data is not going to change, and also assuming it's only email. then
your easiest option is to install Mozilla Thunderbird and import your
Outlook Email to that. Thunderbird uses the MBOX mail format, which is
nothing but a big text file and can be opened in any text editor...

 

[DL]

You would have to save the individual mail as msg files

 

[Gordon]

You would have to save the individual mail as msg files

Not at all. If the OP installs Thunderbird and imports the Outlook email,
each folder in Thunderbird can be opened with a text editor....

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

You would have to save the individual mail as msg files

That wouldn't work because MSG files are not text files and must also be
viewed in in Outlook.