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I keep all my old mail. Outlook Express hold all of it in one large file, "Messages". That file has become so big it becomes cumbersome when I do backups. I'd like therefore to split it into two files: one containing all my old messages, which can be backed up just once, say on a CD, and the other containing only recent messages, for which I'll want to refresh the back-up frequently. So question: is there a way to split the OE Messages file into two: one containing mail messages prior to a given date, and one with current messages? Thanks! > I keep all my old mail. Outlook Express hold all of it in > one large file, "Messages". That file has become so big it [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Thanks! You can't do exactly what is suggested in your post, but there is an alternative that should suit your needs. Individual messages can be dragged directly out of the OE Inbox and onto the Desktop to be saved there as separate .EML files. You just drag one or more messages from the top-right pane of OE out onto the Desktop (or another folder) and that will keep them safe until you need them again. If you need to restore these messages at any point, simply drag them back into the Inbox, and they will reappear there as new, unread mail. Thus, you can keep hold of your newer messages in this convenient manner and use the normal back-up method to safeguard the entire mailbox (just make copies of your Messages and Database files). Ricky > > I keep all my old mail. Outlook Express hold all of it in > > one large file, "Messages". That file has become so big it [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Ricky Dear Ricky and Co I have used the drag and drop method to back up our email but I have found some of the messages cannot be opened again. They also take up zero kb on the desktop?!? There is also an email in each folder where this problem has occurred which is at least 1gb is size. I presume this is where the missing data has gone but I don't know how to open these enormous emails. I'm going to let Outlook Express process one all night tonight but I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and if there is any way of getting these emails to work again as I had deleted them from my inbox before I noticed the problem? Another avenue I could take is to possibly restore emails which have been deleted from the 'Deleted Items' folder. I wouldn't have thought this was possible but as the 'Messages' folder hasn't gotten any smaller I assume the email data is still in there in some form. Is it possible to retrieve these messages? Thanks in advance for your help, I'm on Mac system 9.1 with OE 5 Pete > > > I keep all my old mail. Outlook Express hold all of it in > > > one large file, "Messages". That file has become so big it [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > Pete Sorry, make that Mac system 9.1 with OE 5.06. With regards to getting Outlook to open one of the large emails which appear to contain all the other data, which I said I would do last night, Outlook doesn't succeed in opening them. It opens instead a blank email with 'untitled' in the window panel and has an attachment which is equal to the ridiculously large size of the email. Curiously this attachment was a .dwg file. This is a fairly common type of attachment for us to receive. (CAD drawing, Illustrator can open em) If anyone is actually reading this I would be happy to clarify any points in this problem I'd really like to know if anyone has encountered it. By the way my 'messages' file was over 2gb when all this happened and I think this is why it happened. > Thanks in advance for your help, > > I'm on Mac system 9.1 with OE 5 and > these enormous emails. I'm going to let Outlook Express process one > all night tonight but I was wondering if anyone else had this problem >>>> I keep all my old mail. Outlook Express hold all of it in >>>> one large file, "Messages". That file has become so big it [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] >> these enormous emails. I'm going to let Outlook Express process one >> all night tonight but I was wondering if anyone else had this problem You could try increasing the memory allocation of OE... <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/techie.grim/macfaq/articles/038.html> ..and then try to compact the database... <http://techiegrim.webhop.net/keyboard/oe5_database.html> I would suggest however that you are unlikely to achieve much success here, since Classic OS imposes a filesize limit of 2Gb which, as you suggested, is probably the culprit of these problems. Ricky |
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