Paul, or anyone,
I have windows 10, and use Outlook for my email. A few weeks ago Windows
10 went belly-up, and would not open any program. The Windows fix was to reload Windows 10, did same, and lost everything. My question does anyone know how to save Outlook emails with attachments easily so I can back-up to a different drive?

Regards,
Norman Parmley

I use Linux and highly recommend it. I was at Randy's shop recently and he is running Windows 10. He doesn't answer his email so that might have something to do with it :-) It would not read my USB chip or even a CD that had some jpgs on it.

Basically the last half way decent OS was Windows 7 or XP.
Perhaps you can buy a copy from Fry's and back up to something that works.

If you are just doing email and you don't have some high priced program that needs to run on windows you should try Linux. I have been using it for 18 years and I have over 500,000 files.

Same for the Thunder Bird email program. I have all the email dating back to 1998. You know how much email goes through here. I can search all the emails back to 1998.

Gimp is free and it is powerful image manipulation program that I process all jpgs. There are several paint programs plus about 68,000 other free programs. I has a high speed search engine that can find any key word in msec. The free video editing software is called One Shot

Linux is the basis for everything on the Mac. It is also the basis for Android which the majority of all cell phones use. That is not the apple phones which  also use a Linux based OS but they don't call it android :-)

I back up on 3 gig USB hard drives. The operating system is free and the upgrades are free. Ubuntu is about the best distribution.

Linux can have 32 virtual screens and one can have 32 programs running in those 32 virtual screens. Email in one google in another and back ground music in a third.in another. Four or five jpgs open in others.
I can switch back and fourth by just clicking on a row of small boxes at the bottom of all of the 32 screens. No way could I do what I do with this newsletter with out that feature. It is called work space switcher.

Firefox is the browser.

I keep an old Windows computer lying around with windows 7 to run the one or two programs that do not run on Linux like Rhino 3D. I do not hook them to the Internet for virus reasons. I have never in 18 years had a Linux virus.

If you back up on a regular basis and you do find something wrong with the OS you can reinstall it or just upgrade to the next version. A new version comes out about once a month. There are a million Linux OS programmers around the world constantly finding better ways to do things.
That is the advantage to open software.

Paul Lamar

 Your outlook emails are all stored in a file called: outlook.pst Search for *.pst on your C: drive. to locate the directory it is in.
Usually it is stored under
C:\users\name\My Documents\Outlook Files.
Copy the entire file periodically to back it up. It is also possible to open multiple .pst files if they have different names.
Hope that helps.

Craig Smith

Norman,

Unless you use Outlook 365 or some other MS Exchange based email system, your email records including contacts, notes, tasks, calendar, etc. should be maintained on your machine and named something like "Outlook.pst" or "<your email name>.pst". Microsoft often hides these files to protect them from inadvertent deletion. If, on the other hand your email provider uses Exchange, you simply have to reestablish connection to the Exchange server and your entire account will be recreated in the new Outlook iteration through automatic synchronization as soon as you log on.

To locate and copy your PST file to a safe location (flash drive, etc.) do the following:

Type *.PST into your Windows 10 search field (to the right of your start button) and click your enter key.
You should see one or several files with the suffix .PST attached appear
Hover your cursor over each of them until you find the one with the most recent "last modified" date
Right-click on that file and select "Open file location"
In the actual file location folder, right-click on it and select "Copy" to copy your email records (PST) file
Insert your removable device (USB stick, flash drive, etc.)
Browse to the removable device and highlight it
Right-click on the removable device and select "Paste" to place a copy of your records on it
Move the flash drive to a stable computer with Outlook installed
Open Outlook
(NOTE: you may have to create your original email account in the new copy of Outlook)

Select "File" >
"Open & Export" >
"Import/Export" >
"Import from another program or file" >
"Next" >
"Outlook Data File (pst)" >
"Next" >
browse to the portable flash drive and select your copied PST file >
select the radio button beneath the file location field that says "Do not import duplicates" >
"Next" >
check the box that says "Include subfolders" and select the radio button (if offered) that says "import files into the same folder in:" and select your email address >
click "Finish" and the import process should begin.

Hope this helps.

Jack Hilditch, MCP



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