Thanks very much for that Paul. I will have a go at that one of these days and let you know how I get on.
Best wishes, Kathleen Doyle.----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul J. Traynor (NCBI)" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 5:05 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: saving files & folders to memory stick
Hi Kathleen, "I am endeavoring to save files & folders from my computer on to a memorystick. I have succeeded in copying and pasting files from "my documents" toa folder I have created on the memory stick, but am not having the samesuccess with files from a number of folders I have saved in Outlook Express.I am selecting all the files in each folder but don't seem to be able to copy and paste them into the new folders on the memory stick. "This is a slightly different area of copying and pasting than would be usedfor normal documents such as those produced by MS Word or Excel etc. Let's look at how we might achieve what you are trying to do and that is make a backup of your email folders. Here is how I would approached this task and have done successfully in the past using the method below. 1. first of all I need to look for a folder on my computer called: "Identities". This folder houses some sub folders and ultimately within those sub folders are contained the files which are just that "files" but whenever we open up our outlook express program those files magically transform themselves into meaningful folders such as the normal "Inbox,Outbox, Deleted Items box" along with other folders which we ourselves have created to store different types of emails. Don't get too caught up in whatI have just written here but simply understand that we are looking for special types of files which are to be copied into a backup on our pen drives, that's all it is, nothing more. 2. Where is this "Identities folder" located?. Well if you open up your "start menu and press "R" for run, a run dialogue box will open up waiting for you to type in something to it. Type in something like the following path which I have written below: C:\documents and settings\user name\application dataNote: I have used the word "user name". You must use your user name here, it could be Kathleen or it might be KDoyle or something like that, I don't knowwhat your user name here is so you will have to look it up or maybe you already know. Anyway, replace in the line above where it contains "user name" with your own user name whatever it is. Once you have the line above typed in correctly, press enter. 3. Now you will be in an area where you will have folders you haven't seen before. In here you will come across the identities folder I first mentioned. Within this Identities folder will be another sub folder like a string of numbers and letters and again when you press enter on this subfolder, you will have another sub folder called Microsoft. Once more insidethe Microsoft folder will be a final sub folder called "outlook express". Press enter here and you will see those special files I mentioned before.They will have all the names that you are familiar with seeing whenever you open up outlook express. These are the folders that have to be saved on yourbackup pen drive.4. Okay, so now that we have located the folder Identities we will now savethis folder "including all its sub folders and special files". I recommend that you simply copy in its entirety the "Identities folder" as this was how I did it and had success later on when I needed to restore that file. Tip: On the pen drive just before you copy the Identities folder to it, create a new folder. Give it a name, call it Emails2010 or something likethat with a date at the end of it, perhaps the year or if you intend to makea backup often of emails then perhaps use something like EMailsApril30th. Once you create this folder, paste in the identities folder inside it.Now you should be good to go and have a backup of your recent and old items,both files and folders saved. Good luck, Paul. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. 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