Backup Your Windows Mail and Contacts

How to backup your Windows Mail (Vista's built-in email client) and Windows Contacts to a flash drive, external hard drive, or burn them to a CD/DVD

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hello this is Kate was computer care
Colona
and today I'm going to show you how to
backup
your Windows male messages
and your contacts so we're talking about
this to
Windows Mail and this to contacts
we're gonna back those up to a little
folder that we create
and then you can take that older neither
burn it to a CD or DVD
if you doing that or transfer that
to flash drive am why would you want to
do that well
because you might want when you get a
new computer chin
move your mail and your contacts to it
and this is an easy way to do that
even if you're not playing and getting a
new computer if you do this
every so often you'll have a backup of
your important emails
and your contacts so it's all good
and it's all straightforward and here we
go
the first thing we want to do is create
any folder right on the desktop
somewhere
so that that we can put our stuff
into it and then later either transfer
that folder to a flash drive
or burnt so right click on a
blank spot on the desktop select new
select Folder
we've created a new folder name it
something informative as
I am going to name my email
backup because its informants
I next opener
Windows male Windows Mail
here it is let's start by a a saving the
contacts
so to do that we're gonna go to File
export
windows contacts and a
are the correct choice here is
csd that's what we want now is
click on export and it wonders where
we're gonna send it to are are folder on
the desktop
so it's gonna be in the solar called
Email Backup
we have together and a name so
term let's call it contacts so that
to we know what it is and say that
so it's going to my desktop football
team and backups
in here we go no inject some boxes for
your
most people largest happy
with the boxes that are checked that if
you think that you might
even have some information in your
contacts
in these other shields just go ahead and
check
all boxes speakers it's really easy to
do
and on the back end it's easier to deal
with
so I clicked OK and that little progress
or and now Windows is telling me
that my contacts been exported in the
format I chose to the location I
selected
so I can close all that and
just because I'll always skeptical
i just want to see is it went to the
location isolated
and indeed it did here's my folder
here's my file called contacts in my
soldier old email back so
that's good now in order to
exporter messages its you know
it's just not as simple as clicking on
messages because it you know
it's only gonna save them to exchange
or to to what they are am we don't want
their
trust me so
what we want to do is locate the folder
in which
all those messages lives and that's the
folder we're gonna copy or
how do we find it well go to tools
we go to options and then we go to
Advanced
and now maintenance
and store folder I know that's not until
it is
the trust me missus can work okay so
the store location
is the shoulder in which all our email
messages are stored and this is it so
what we want to do is highlight this
entire thing right click
and say copy and then just chancel
L and close everything K
don't change anything just copy it and
cancel it and then
very important close your
Windows Mail because we don't wanna be
messing around in the store
older while Windows Mail was trying to
send and receive mail
bad things can happen okay so now we
know
where the folder is we just have to get
there
we do that by clicking on starch and I'm
run
and then just press the control key
and the the key the stricter at the same
time
and that pastes in what we just copy
say okay
and here we are this is the contents
love the Windows Mail solar
winona waste ur time cutting each and
every one of these little things
wanna actually move up a level so click
on the Microsoft
you see that Windows Mail still
highlighted here
make sure make sure that Windows Mail is
highlighted
its usually blue right click
and say copy and if you have a lot of
mail
give that a minute gonna take some time
now weekend open up her email backup
folder
right click and say paste
and now I
years I'll probably take longer I don't
really have an email and Windows Mail
but here's our solar
and you can see that it contains the
same stuff
as the Solar which is copied it from so
that's all good no
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one copy it to a hard drives
or a little slashed runs this is the
time to do it
Guardian computer
on my Celestron
this one is called me a so
I can just open up my flash drives
and drank this guy over here
and know that look like it was test
Minnesota
okay it's done its copied over there
in just double check
you know all our stuff is there
and her contacts here so there it is
sun-splashed writing safely remove your
flash driver
your external hard drive that's what it
is any heavy stuffs
and you can yet rated this folder
because it's just a copy up thing that
you have now on your external drive
and your email if you need to
firm to burns
then newsletter program you
have it'll burn a CD burn DVD
this is the holy water burn I hope
that has answered your question
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