Backup and restore for Outlook Express

While Outlook Express (OE) is the most widely used e-mail program, 'weird' is that very few people know how to back up emails or personal settings (complex and difficult to remember) to be able to restore when something goes wrong. Perhaps because Microsoft does not provide effective tools to help users do this themselves. I have encountered many cases of losing important archived emails as well as settings (email accounts, address books, signatures, spam filtering lists .) in OE, when users have to install Reset the program on the drive.

Outlook Express Backup Software (OEB) of Genie-Soft Corporation (with the latest version 6.5) is really a 'savior' of e-mail users as a means of doing their own work. It can be said that this software is the simplest and most effective use in backing up and recovering correspondence and the establishment of OE.

OEB is compatible with Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP and works with Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. You can buy ($ 29.95) and download OEB at: http://www.genie-soft.com/products/oeb/default.html

With OEB, you can back up / restore data, establish each person who uses OE on multiple devices (such as Message Rules ), e-mail accounts ( accounts ), and messages. number of activities ( preferences ), signatures , and e-mail ( stationery ) patterns. In addition, OEB allows you to back up both Favorites, Internet Explorer Settings, Windows Address Book and any files you specify.

OEB also has the capabilities: Allows you to select multiple file compression levels depending on the machine speed. Split the backup file to fit the storage capacity. Backup files can be written directly to the recording CD (if the device has a CDR / RW drive). Protect backup files with password and 128-bit encryption. Lets see the backup file content and can choose to recover any item in this file. Allow automatic backup scheduling.

Established

- Run the program, open the Tools / Preferences menu.

- In the Preferences dialog box, select Backup Settings (left window) and specify the compression level in the Backup Compression Level box (right window). Note : the stronger the compression level, the slower the backup speed.

- Select Automatically verify my backup so that OEB will automatically check the result file after backing up, avoid the result that the result file is corrupted because the program encountered an error.

- Mark the item without closing Outlook Express Backup if you do not want to close OE each time conducting backup.

Backup steps

- Run the program, select Backup Now .

- In The Backup Job dialog box, you make the following statements and click Next.

- Backup Job Name : Naming for this backup, the backup file name in the Backup File Name box will change accordingly.

- Backup File Name : Name the backup file (named tail is .boe). If compression is not applied, this name will be the name of the folder containing the backup files.

- Linkup job name with file name : Select, when you want to name Backup File and Backup Job will automatically change the same when repairing one of the two items.

- Timestamps Settings : Specify the date and time format to automatically insert backup file names.

- Load a Previous Backup Job / Backup Job Name : Select the existing backup file to get its settings applied to the new file.

- In Backup Media Type dialog box, select the place to store your personal computer / intranet hard drive (Local / LAN), FTP server (Internet), split multiple disks (Multiple Disks) or burn to CD / DVD. If you choose Local / LAN, you declare additional items:

- Backup to Local / LAN location : Specify the folder to store backup files.

- Backup data as an executable EXE file : Create backup file is a self-running compressed file (.exe), you can recover data in the file even without OE.

- Advanced Settings : Specify the maximum file size for compressed files (from 500MB to 2GB), on this capacity, the program will automatically split into multiple files.

- In Backup Items dialog box, you select the components to backup. You can specify the backup of each mailbox and each type of data set in OE. To add other files to the backup list, select My Files and specify the path to those files.

Recovery steps

- Run the program, select Restore Now .

- In the Selecting A File To Restore dialog box, click the Select file to restore button to select an existing backup file. Click Next .

- In the Choosing what data to restore dialog box, click the Select Identity button, select the user name and then select Back to Restore when you want to restore the entire e-mail as it was or choose Synchronize my e-mails when you only want to add Old e-mail into the new mailbox. Finally, select the components to restore and click Next .

- In particular, you can also optionally recover each e-mail by the following way:

- Open the dialog box to choose which data to restore, in the Outlook Express Data section select users (mail identity).

- Select the mailbox (folder) containing the mail to restore and click View Folder emails

- Select mail -> click the Save e-mail as .ml button to restore it to an file with an extension named eml.

Note : In case the compressed backup file itself is corrupted, you can 'save' by opening the Tools menu and selecting Extracting .boe File From .exe File to convert it to a normal compressed file, then you can manually restore good information. If you recover from a backup file divided into multiple disks, you must insert the last disk containing the file with the extension name .oeb first.

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