I've accumulated a hundred or so emails in my inbox, some with
attachments.
Most are pertinent to a project I'm working on. What I'd like to do is save
all of them to a disk or CD, giving me a record of all these posts while
freeing up my inbox.
Is such an operation possible? Thanks for any input.
Sure. If you haven't done so already, create a new mail folder under
"Inbox" for your project (name it anything you want), and move all of the
pertinent messages to that folder. If they are spread all over hear and
gone, see if you can create a rule based on their content, sender, subject
line, etc. that Outlook can use to identify the messages, and then have the
rule save or move them to that folder. If you have created replies to any
of those messages, you might want to copy or move the replies from the Sent
Items folder to the new folder, as well.
Once the messages are in that new folder, click on File|Import and Export,
and follow the prompts to save the messages to a new *.pst file. Export the
messages from that new folder to the new *.pst file, and then save the *.pst
file to whatever medium or drive you choose. You'll be able to open the
file in Outlook later, when and if you want to do so. Once the messages are
exported, you can delete the ones in the new folder you created.
Tim Dees
