Change the location of your email message store for safekeeping
If you hate the thought of losing all your important email messages, you can simply change their location on a different hard drive or partition. That way, if anything happens to your operating system such as a virus or for some reason you are forced to re-install the operating system, your email will always be safe. Just follow the steps below to change their location.
- Open "Windows Mail"
- Navigate to "Tools"
- Click on "Options"
- Click on the "Advanced" tab (last one on the right)
- Click on "Maintenance..." (towards the bottom)
- Click on "Store Folder"
- Click on "Change"
- When the "Browse For Folder" dialogue box pops up, navigate to the drive or partition you want for your new location
- Click on "Make New Folder" and type a new name for your folder in the highlighted box.
- Click "OK"
- Click "OK" again, and you're done!
If you`ve been forced to reinstall your operating system, all you have to do to to recover those email messages again is to take the same steps as above with one difference:
- Open Windows Mail
- Navigate to "Tools"
- Click on "Options"
- Click on the "Advanced" tab (last tab on the right)
- Click on "Maintenance..." (towards the bottom)
- Click on "Store Folder"
- Click on "Change"
- When the "Browse For Folder" dialogue box pops up, navigate to the drive or partition where your email is stored, single-click on it to highlight it and click "OK"
- Click "OK" again and a dialogue box like the one below pops up
*Be sure to click "YES"
At this point another dialogue box pops up like this:
Click "Ok" for this one
Click "OK" for the next two and you're done! Your old messages will be there waiting for you the next time you open Windows Mail.