Saving Emails before Reformatting

1. Click on ‘Drive C:’
2. Click on ‘Documents and Setting’
3. Click on ‘Username’
4. Open ‘Application Data’
(If you can’t see it, go to Tools > Folder Options’ > View > Check ‘Show hidden files and folders’
5. Open ‘Identities’ folder
6. Here you will find one or more folders with the following identity - (02D323-blah blah blah)
7. All you have to do is to either zip all these folders up or save them onto thumb drive or an external hard disk
8. Voila ! All your messages including Inbox, Sent items, Deleted items…etc. is now saved.
9. You get to save everything, minus the hassle of having to click on every message.
10. When you open up your freshly installed Outlook Express/Outlook, just go to File…Import…Messages.
11. Select the version of Outlook Express/Outlook that you are using and select the identity you want to import from (just select the main identity only)
12. Browse to the folder where your identity is saved {refer to Step 4 above)
13. Ensure that you have the Outlook Express/Outlook folder selected.
13. Now select all the folders you want to import and voila, every thing is back in place like it was before.
14. You can also save the address book file from C:\windows\application data\ microsoft\address book\(your name).wab.