Backing up E-mail and Address Books
E-mail clients congregate your messages into one large file or folder, simplifying the backup process. Corruption of these files and accidental deletion of messages are the most common reasons for e-mail loss. You will also want to make a copy of your messages and address books to use when you anticipate moving to a new computer or e-mail client.
The following instructions can help you back up and restore e-mail and address books in commonly used e-mail clients:
Windows
- Outlook Express - How to Back Up the Outlook Express Address Book and Mail Folders (Microsoft Web site)
- Outlook 2002 (Outlook XP) and 2003 - How to manage .pst files in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003 (Microsoft Web site)
- Outlook 2007 - Back up Outlook data with Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool (Microsoft Web site)
- Thunderbird and Sea Monkey - Profile backup (Mozilla Web site)
Mac OS X
- Entourage 2004 - Export or back up information (Microsoft Web site)
- Entourage 2008 - Export or back up information (Microsoft Web site)
- Mac Mail - How to back up and restore your important Mac OS X 10.4 files (Apple Web site)
