[mso] Re: Exporting Messages

Yup! That's exactly what I just tried and did...as per previous email.
Thanks, Vic!

If anyone needs to do this...here's the stepXstep (no relation to Linda &
Vic<g>)...

* make Outlook a little smaller than the screen by dragging the window in a
bit
* right click on your desktop and choose New/Folder...give it a name
* go back to Outlook and open the folder you want to convert
* click inside the folder to set the focus on those messages
* hit Ctrl/A to select all in the folder
* RIGHT click and DRAG them all out of Outlook...over to the folder you
created on your desktop. You'll know you're "in" it when you hover over and
the folder gets darker
* Release the mouse button...and wait as long as your processor takes...fyi,
mine is 1.33gig (thank you Greg) and took a second or two to pass 280+
* double click to open the folder on your desktop and you'll see a bunch of
*.msg files. If you double click them, they'll open as OL...stand alone
messages.
* RIGHT click on a blank space inside that folder, click New/Text Doc (I'm
on WinXP Pro on this system...but I know there's a Notepad file in previous
versions...choose that if you don't see TXT file...same thing)
* Type in this...(Thanks, Vic!): ren *.msg *.txt
* Save the file by clicking File/Save and name it something like
RENAME.BAT...must have the BAT extension to stand for "batch file".
* You'll see that file in the folder
* double click that batch file (*.bat)
* It'll convert all the files in that folder from [whateverName].msg
(Outlook) files...to [sameName].txt files...as fast as your processor can
crank them out

Dian Chapman
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:45 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Exporting Messages



Well...I'm wondering if you use Dian's suggestion of dragging them all
into one folder on your desktop, if you could use some kind of bat file
or Windows macro/vb thang  to rename all the extensions in one shot?

Vic?

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 2:39 PM
To: List MS
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
>http://personal-computer-tutor.com
>FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial
>http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm
>
>
>
>-----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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