You can just drag the email itself to new folders outside OE. They would be saved as EML files. But, then you would require OE to open them. ---Troth At 9/28/2003 06:57 AM, Glo wrote: >I thought about that, but I don't know what happens when you compact all >folders--can you still read them? There is nowhere near 1000, maybe more >like 100 if that, but after reading all posts I've come to the conclusion I >just have too much in there. There are 13 subfolders with maybe 2 to 5 >emails in each folder. Is there a quick and easy way to transfer these all >over to text files, or must they be done individually via copy and paste, >like to Notepad or someplace? Otherwise, they'd be saved as .dbx files and >how could I open them again? --Glo > >----- Original Message ----- >From: nightsneak >To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 4:10 AM >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hanging Between Folders > > >Glo, > make a new folder to store the older messages in. You can do this >by highlighting all the messages in the current folder, then move them to a >new folder that you name "old pctt pre 9-27-03" or something like that so >that you now have an empty "current" folder. > >< compress all your folders, by going to File>Folder>Compact all Folders. >nightsneak To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk