Moving A Folder

[Evans Electric]

I'm trying to move a folder of stuff from my Evans Electric email page to Documents  or Desktop  but cannot do it .

I thought I would just drag & drop it but it won't go .

Any ideas guys ?  

 

[Evans Electric]

In      Deke's email address   there were a load of family history emails stored amongst the electrical stuff   , so I created a new folder , put them all in it  , thinking I could drag it over to  Desktop  but I can't shift it .   They came when my ISP was Wanadoo .

Email is called Outlook now .   I tried to attach the folder to an email and send it to my private BT  email address but you can't attach either .

 

[Blue Duck]

Have you downloaded the files to a folder?

 

[Murdoch]

You may need to forward each and every email, one by one.

Microsoft, in their infinite wisedom, decided this was the best way when they retired outlook express and introduced is direct successor!

Very frustrating

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

You can drag/copy/move Microsoft folders full of e-mails to other locations using Windows Explorer....

But AFAIK the files are all encoded so you cant just read them without the actual e-mail prog that made them!

So if you just want to move and keep them backed up elsewhere no probs...

But you would need to copy them back into your pukka e-mail folders to read or access them!

e.g.

On a Vista PC with Windows Mail the typical path is:-

Drive:\Users\{user name you logged on with}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsMail\LocalFolders > then the names of your mail folders! 

On a Win7 PC with Windows Live Mail the typical path is:-

Drive:\Users\{user name you logged on with}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsLiveMail > then the names of your mail folders!

I have copied old Outlook Folders in the past shifting some of the kids old emails between PC's when desktop/laptops been replaced upgraded etc..

but no longer have Outlook running on anything to view the typical paths!

However you can use the Window "Search Programs & Files" option to find where e-mails are stored,

then view properties to get the path....

i.e.

Find an e-mail (or create a new e-mail) with a unique string of text such as an invoice number, address or obscure name..

Then use windows search to find it and click on its properties and it will tell you the path...

You then got the path & folder where that e-mail lives..

Go to that path & folder in Windows Explorer...

Drag copy move that folder

wherever you want it!!

Dunno if Hotmail or Wanadoo have any thing wierd...

But if its on a Windows PC the principal should be similar?

Guinness

 

[apprentice87]

I have literally thousands of emails stored on my computer, [win XP] and backed up on other drives too. I never used that hotmail crap, and never figured out why anyone else would want to use the cheapo clunky crap either, when they could use outlook express that came as part of their windows thingy, and use a proper email address from the ISP??

Still, i can copy and move them all i want, but as special location says they are all encoded. This means that if i click on one, it automatically opens outlook express. No idea if there is any other way of opening them, wish i knew..

john...

Forgot to say!! I do not have to move them or anything to open them, no matter which folder they are in, or where i have them stored; Just click on one and it opens!! No idea how or why, as i know very little about computers!!

john..

 

[Apache]

Deke - I have edited out your email address.

 

[Evans Electric]

Deke - I have edited out your email address.

Thanks .... silly of me to put that .

Have you downloaded the files to a folder?

They are received emails ....in hotmail  (now called Outlook)  .  They were all in "Saved emails"  with lots of other stuff & I'd forgotten about them . So create new folder , name it , move it to Desktop ...,therein lies the problem  !

 

[Evans Electric]

Thanks   Spec , I moved a single email to Desktop but can't find what programme to open it in now .     Thanks for your answers , I think I'll just leave them in Hotmail.   I get frustrated sometimes  with my lack of computer experience .......some stuff just seems so convoluted .

 

[Blue Duck]

What is the file extension? .something?

 

[Sidewinder]

I suspect it will be .eml?

 

[Blue Duck]

.ost or .pst ???

You can get a converter to convert the outlook files to what ever format you need I would recommend PDF although the image quality may not be great!

Something like zis? http://download.cnet.com/Total-Outlook-Converter/3000-2369_4-75963304.html

What you really need to do is download the attachments from the original emails if you can import the .ost or .pst files into an old copy of outlook then re-download to a new folder.

I gave up on outlook many moons ago, I never got on with it and started using gmail.

 

 

[Sidewinder]

No an ost or pst file is a database of folders containing the emails, calender entries, notes etc. in Outlook.

If they are individual emails they could also be xml.

I'll try later if I can, got a pc to fix anyway.

 

[Blue Duck]

My bad.... Bit rusty with all things microsoft, it's been a while...  Amazing what you forget when you don't constantly need to babysit your computer

 

[Sidewinder]

My bad too, another option is an msg extension.

Which is an encoded text file.

 

[Evans Electric]

Don't use hotmail or anything micro$oft - its just carp......

I think i told you this a year or more ago Deke :slap

You never cease telling me Paddler ,  I hardly grasp this system , let alone changing to something else.  :C

 

[steptoe]

Deke,

the thing is,

most other systems are sooooo much simpler,

if, like me, you have absolutely NO idea of how a computer works,

then Ubuntu is so much easier than windoze,

it just does what you tell it to do.

 

[Evans Electric]

Trouble is Stepps , I think we all get used to the operating system and are loathe to change .  Theres stuff on here I don't / can't  use .   Obviously due to having no computer education,  I just bought one , plugged it in and took it from there.