How to backup emails with Microsoft Outlook

If you use Microsoft Outlook and have lots of emails saved in different folders, there is a way to back up those emails. You could always save them as text documents, of just create a folder with the same title in the Windows Explorer. Then all you have to do is copy and paste the emails from each folder in Outlook to the folder you created in the Windows Explorer. This method also works with notes, Ive done this plenty of times. Every so many weeks I will update my backup folders with the emails Ive added to my folders in Outlook 2007.

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[imayjustsay]

Whats about the .pst files, isn't that a better way of doing it? If so, why??

[Tecnicle]

@imayjustsay .pst files or Personal Storage Files are a better way, much easier to recover if you ever have to reinstall Outlook, or have hardware failure as long as you have a backup copy. The method in the video is an alternative. I've run into people who find this method easier for them.

[thkody]

There is a second alternative to this, there are quite a lot of backup tools on the market and I think that with most of them it's easy to save your Outlook profile on to another computer to reimport it after an upgrade. I have the lookeen backup manager installed for this purpose but in general you hardly upgrade more than once a year. In the meantime I make regular backups of my Outlook mails, calenders, contacts and so on.

[je6229]

THE PROBLEM WITH DOING IT THIS WAY IS THAT ONCE YOU GET SEVERAL EMAILS IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND EMAILS BY CATEGORIES.