[mso] Re: Exporting Messages

Actually what the hassle is now I have to find yet another app to do
something that quite frankly shouldn't be a hassle in the first place!
:-O  I think I'm gonna try Dian's suggestion and see where that leads
me! <shrug> 

Thanks Vic.

*********** Original Message  ***********

On 7/30/2002 at 2:53 PM vic communicated the following:

>If you have OE, it's not that much a hassle to do. I exported over
2000
>outlook messages into text files this way:
>
>1. I created a new identity in OE(just so I could have an empty dbx
with
>nothing but the exported emails.
>
>2. I then imported all the inbox Outlook messages to the OE account.
>
>3. I then used DBXract to extract all the messages from inbox.dbx  to
eml
>format to one folder.
>
>4. I then created a simple bat file in the folder:
>ren *.eml *.txt
>to make them all into txt files.
>
>And that's it.
>
>If you have OE and not dbxtrct, and would like to do it this way, I
can
>send
>it to you.
>
>hth
>
>vic
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles R. Buchanan" <crbgfblab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "List MS" <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:38 PM
>Subject: [mso] Re: Exporting Messages
>
>
>>
>> That's what I did last night. I need them to be individual though!
:-(
>>
>> *********** Original Message  ***********
>>
>> On 7/30/2002 at 2:12 PM Linda F. Johnson communicated the following:
>>
>> >Charles...the only way I know to save more than one message at a
time
>> is
>> >to save them all in a txt file (in Outlook)....go into your inbox
or
>> >folder, click on one, hold shift and click on the last one....once
>> they
>> >are all selected, go into the File menu and choose Save As....and
save
>> >them...this puts them all in to one text file
>> >
>> >Then you can rename this file in Windows with an eml
extension....it
>> >will open in OE....but, all the messages will be within one email,
not
>> >multiple emails
>> >
>> >Linda
>> >Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers
>> >Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> >Behalf Of Charles R. Buchanan
>> >Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:27 PM
>> >To: List MS
>> >Subject: [mso] Re: Exporting Messages
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Ok, maybe I'm suffering from "what the heck?" syndrome, or just a
>> plain
>> >dummy, but although I can save an individual msg, but can't figure
out
>> >how to do that to ALL the messages! :-(  Well, back to the drawing
>> >board. <shrug>
>> >
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