"pinkstonc (removethis) @charter.net" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:60b601c42df5$6c2ccf90$a001280a@phx.gbl...

On mine the path to the message store is:

C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Identities\{953DA923-54CE-4C61-8D2F-91B032478FBC}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express

Your's should be simular.

You can backup and the entire directory or indivual folders/files.

If you have example a folder in OE like   save  then in the directory it
would be
save.dbx   so save it  that is copy it to another location, I have a backup
program compress my entire directory to another harddrive and later I burn
that zip file to a CD. Later you can import it back into OE, uoff the file
menu.

Note you must change the attribute back from the read only if you save them
un-compressed on a CD.

HTH
Bobby

If you don't mind doing a little work, you can save each e-
mail as a Word or Wordpad document.  Or you can copy the
pertinent information in each e-mail, and then insert each
one into the same Word document.  Then you can save the
document anywhere you wish, including removable disks.
<br>
I wouldn't save the document on a CD, just because it's
such a waste of a CD (so much empty space left over).  
But, if that's the only way you have to save it in a
transportable medium, use it.
<br><br>
Bob K.