Woah! I just made a great discovery today. Working in a company that uses Microsoft Exchange Server, we are constantly having problems with people storing all of their old emails complete with attachments: videos, photos, huge files etc, within their exchange mailboxes. Some mailboxes tend to get pretty big (some more than 750MB for one user!). After a while, the server gets all chuggy and no ones happy.
People always want to know how they can back their emails up and store them on the local hard drive. I always told them to sort through the attachments they want and save them to the hard drive, and any emails they really need, save to a word document and use that.
Lo and behold, today I find out it is just as simple as dragging and dropping emails en mass from outlook straight into a folder on say the desktop. All files are stored as .msg files (complete with attachments), which when opened, open up in Outlook just like they would from your inbox. Better yet, the .msg files can be drag and dropped back into Outlook with no problems! So simple!
Why didn’t I find this out sooner?
