I have ten years worth of emails and would like to find a solution for
archiving them where I can index and search them any way that I wish.

I have kept using OE frankly because the best SPAM that I have tried is
Cloudmark and it only works with Outlook or OE.

I tried Outlook for a year and got tired of it crashing. OE crashes too, but
when it happens, I rarely loose messages. Also, OE seems to be much faster.
I think the speed has to do with OE storing it's emails in multiple DBX
files, instead of one Mega file. Outlook's PST file grew to over 6GB and all
my OE files together are only 5.5 GB and there are twice the number of
messages in there.

Would be sweet if there was a third party program that could index a whole
bunch of DBX files to make them searchable. Then I could copy all my old OE
files to a folder and let that program handle searching and retrieval of old
messages when I need them. Then I could clear out OE and give it some
breathing room.

Any good ideas?

Thanks,

Kirk

Kirk_ wrote:
I have ten years worth of emails and would like to find a solution for
archiving them where I can index and search them any way that I wish.

I have kept using OE frankly because the best SPAM that I have tried
is Cloudmark and it only works with Outlook or OE.

I tried Outlook for a year and got tired of it crashing. OE crashes
too, but when it happens, I rarely loose messages. Also, OE seems to
be much faster. I think the speed has to do with OE storing it's
emails in multiple DBX files, instead of one Mega file. Outlook's PST
file grew to over 6GB and all my OE files together are only 5.5 GB
and there are twice the number of messages in there.

Would be sweet if there was a third party program that could index a
whole bunch of DBX files to make them searchable. Then I could copy
all my old OE files to a folder and let that program handle searching
and retrieval of old messages when I need them. Then I could clear
out OE and give it some breathing room.

Any good ideas?

Thanks,

Kirk

Why not do as I do and create an additional Identity for the old
messages? You don't have to configure an account in it. Create the ID,
import your mail from the current ID and continue using the old ID for
new mail. Then you can switch between ID's to find old messages. You are
also less likely to lose the old stuff, because there is no account
configured, OE will not be continually accessing the default folders and
writing to them. Your old ID will also be lean and mean!

You may also be interested in the following -
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)

You could also copy them to a readable CD(s).

To backup messages to a readable CD:

Create a folder on your Desktop, then in Outlook Express open the folder
with the messages you want to save. Highlight one message, then Ctrl+A will
highlight them all, (or hold the Ctrl button down while you select only the
messages you want), Now, drag and drop them to the folder on your Desktop.
(Easiest if the folder shortcut is on the Taskbar).

Now you can copy that folder to a CD and you will be able to read the
messages on the CD by double-clicking on them.

The downside of this is that messages that have the same subject will be
overwritten. To avoid this, purchase:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Kirk_" wrote in message
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I have ten years worth of emails and would like to find a solution for
archiving them where I can index and search them any way that I wish.

I have kept using OE frankly because the best SPAM that I have tried is
Cloudmark and it only works with Outlook or OE.

I tried Outlook for a year and got tired of it crashing. OE crashes too,
but when it happens, I rarely loose messages. Also, OE seems to be much
faster. I think the speed has to do with OE storing it's emails in
multiple DBX files, instead of one Mega file. Outlook's PST file grew to
over 6GB and all my OE files together are only 5.5 GB and there are twice
the number of messages in there.

Would be sweet if there was a third party program that could index a whole
bunch of DBX files to make them searchable. Then I could copy all my old
OE files to a folder and let that program handle searching and retrieval
of old messages when I need them. Then I could clear out OE and give it
some breathing room.

Any good ideas?

Thanks,

Kirk

Kath & Bruce,

Both of these solutions seem like good ideas for storing old messages.

The second ID even seems like a good way to search and find the messages.

I have a utility that I purchased to recover corrupted DBX and even recover
deleted files from them, I am sure that it can extract all the EML's. (can't
remember what that program is named, it is on the other computer)

If I were to change the messages over to EML's, how could I index, search or
find?

I would love to have something that would allow me to index and search old
messages and have virtual folders with saved searches. I saw a program like
this ten years ago, but didn't need it then and can't find it now.

Thanks for the help,

Kirk


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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You could also copy them to a readable CD(s).

To backup messages to a readable CD:

Create a folder on your Desktop, then in Outlook Express open the folder
with the messages you want to save. Highlight one message, then Ctrl+A
will highlight them all, (or hold the Ctrl button down while you select
only the messages you want), Now, drag and drop them to the folder on your
Desktop. (Easiest if the folder shortcut is on the Taskbar).

Now you can copy that folder to a CD and you will be able to read the
messages on the CD by double-clicking on them.

The downside of this is that messages that have the same subject will be
overwritten. To avoid this, purchase:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

The software on my work computer is "Repair Tool for Outlook Express" by
NSoftware.

It worked well on a dbx that I had was corrupted badly and appeared as empty
in OE, but had a couple of thousand messages in it.

Kirk

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
You could also copy them to a readable CD(s).

To backup messages to a readable CD:

Create a folder on your Desktop, then in Outlook Express open the folder
with the messages you want to save. Highlight one message, then Ctrl+A will
highlight them all, (or hold the Ctrl button down while you select only the
messages you want), Now, drag and drop them to the folder on your Desktop.
(Easiest if the folder shortcut is on the Taskbar).

Now you can copy that folder to a CD and you will be able to read the
messages on the CD by double-clicking on them.

The downside of this is that messages that have the same subject will be
overwritten.


This isn't always the case any more, at least in XPsp2.
Dragging a thread to an empty folder creates numbered messages
which therefore don't get overwritten. I think there may still be a problem
of overwriting if you try to combine pieces of threads at different times
but dragging threads is not as totally unusable as it once was.


FYI

Robert
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