How to Back Up & Restore Microsoft Outlook Express Data
Microsoft Outlook Express is an application included with Windows XP that lets you send and receive email. You can back up and restore the data files that Outlook Express uses by copying and pasting the data files to and from the location where Outlook Express stores them on your computer.
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Open Outlook Express, click on "Tools," click "Options," click "Store Folder" under the "Maintenance" tab section and then take note of the location in the "Your personal message store is located in the following folder" section. This is the folder that contains your Outlook Express data.
-
2
Close Outlook Express and open Windows Explorer (right-click on the "Start" button and click "Explore") and then navigate to the data folder you found in step 1.
-
-
3
Copy all of the files in the data folder by highlighting them and pressing "Ctrl" and "C." You can then back them up by pasting ("Ctrl" and "V") them into whatever location on your folder you want.
-
4
Restore the files for Outlook Express by copying them from your backup location and pasting them into the data folder location you found in step 1. Be sure that Outlook Express is closed while you restore the files, otherwise the process may not work.
-
1
