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I want to save Archived email to the hard drive on my PC, but I can't figure out how.

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RetClassicsLibn
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I exceeded the allowed space for a user on the university's email system, and had to archive a lot of stuff I wanted to save. It's mainly recipes and cooking tips from the Cooking channel, and I've been saving recipes since 2010, at least. That's a LOT of recipes, so they cut me off from new messages until I deleted a lot of minor stuff, mainly shopping archives for all those years. My folders seem to be inextricably messed up, so I archived what I could (5,095 messages or whatever), and I'd like to save it.

If I could separate it out by folder, that would be great, but I'm concentrating on just saving it.

Thanks for any help. I'm turning 71 in 3 weeks and this is beyond me.

RetClassicsLibn

I exceeded the allowed space for a user on the university's email system, and had to archive a lot of stuff I wanted to save. It's mainly recipes and cooking tips from the Cooking channel, and I've been saving recipes since 2010, at least. That's a LOT of recipes, so they cut me off from new messages until I deleted a lot of minor stuff, mainly shopping archives for all those years. My folders seem to be inextricably messed up, so I archived what I could (5,095 messages or whatever), and I'd like to save it. If I could separate it out by folder, that would be great, but I'm concentrating on just saving it. Thanks for any help. I'm turning 71 in 3 weeks and this is beyond me. RetClassicsLibn

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Matt
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in the folders on the left your will have your mail account and local folders.

Anything in local folders is stored only on your local hard disk.

  • Right click the mail account. Select settings
  • Select copies and folders for your university account
  • Click archive options and select the type of structure you want the archive in. (keep existing folder structure would be important to you think)
  • in the copies and folders, change the archive folder to other and select the archive folder for local folders (the local folders account entry in the list will expand if you hover the mouse over it)

Now some other points.

  • Holding shift while clicking select everything in the list between clicks. Holding Ctrl while clicking will hold the selections and allow other entries to be toggles on and off by clicking them.
  • Ctrl+A will select the entire list

Finally Pressing the A key when mail is selected archives it.