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Copying Folders
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I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the folder structure. I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the folders may have over 100 emails ... TIA -- Sue Compelling |
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Sue Compelling wrote:
I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the folder structure. I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the folders may have over 100 emails ... There are no folders in Outlook's message store. There is a hierarchy or grouping of records in the database (.pst) file that is exposed in a tree view. The use of "folder" in Outlook is a borrowing of the file system hierarchy to explain the organization of records in Outlook. There is just the .pst database file for Outlook's message store. It's all inside that file. There are no file system folders within Outlook's message store. |
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Thanks ... now understand that these are virtual folders
-- Sue Compelling "VanguardLH" wrote: Sue Compelling wrote: I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the folder structure. I know how to open up each folder, select all the emails and copy them as individual emails - but I want to keep the filing structure and some of the folders may have over 100 emails ... There are no folders in Outlook's message store. There is a hierarchy or grouping of records in the database (.pst) file that is exposed in a tree view. The use of "folder" in Outlook is a borrowing of the file system hierarchy to explain the organization of records in Outlook. There is just the .pst database file for Outlook's message store. It's all inside that file. There are no file system folders within Outlook's message store. . |
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Sue Compelling wrote:
Thanks ... now understand that these are virtual folders There could be some 3rd party add-on for Outlook that would export a Outlook "folder" (and all items and subfolders under it) to mirror that hierarchy in a real folder on the hard disk. I haven't heard of one but then I haven't been searching for one. Someone over at www.outlookcode.com might know of a free macro that you could add to Outlook that would walk through the selected "folder" in Outlook's message store and mimic it in your file system. There are forums over there where you could ask for help on getting one already built or sweet talk someone into writing one for you. There is a lot of functionality that can be added to Outlook through macros. For example, there is http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/email_archiver/ ($49) which might do what you want (not as folders in your file system but as an external HTML archive that you might be able to look at using a web browser besides their viewer). |
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"Sue Compelling" wrote in message
... I want to copy FOLDERS from Outlook to my Hard Drive while keeping the folder structure. One of the tools here may do the job: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail_tools.asp In particular, look at http://www.mailfiler.com/ -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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