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Back up old e-mails to CD?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Can anyone explain to me how I can archive all my old correspondence to CD?
As mailboxes fill up I want to trash old mail - but keep a record on CD, is there a simple way of doing this?
Cheers
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Occasionally Useful
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Liverpool, UK
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if you're using Entourage, just burn ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/* to disc. if you're using Mail.app, you're gonna have to ask someone else, as i don't use it, so i don't know where it stores it's data
you should've been a bit clearer 
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Japan
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backup the file ~/Library/Mail as this contains all you mailboxes and databases of mail.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Maynard, MA
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As wrwjpn says, backup ~/Library/Mail. Just in case you don't know, the "~" is your home directory, just so you don't go poking around in the OTHER Library folders... 
I have a .mac account, and the Backup application works nicely and is simple to use...I use it once a month after I do all my bills in Quicken, and I back up my prefs, mail and quicken folders with a single click. Launch Backup, put in a CD, click the button and that is ALL you have to do! It works great, very intuitive. Another reason I like to have a .mac account. Some people think there is not much value in it, but it is valuable to me!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Fresno CA 93722-6837
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On a related note, I use ( I'm new to Mac's- Count the days on one hand **) I use .Mac and now I'm glad I did. Thanks for the Tip!!
When I first powered up my G4, running OS X v.10.2.6, I swore there were two branches of the Mail.app Folder Hierarchy, 'On My Mac' & ' .Mac' - Perhaps in my ignorance, perhaps in part due to 34 years with PC's ( Since 1969 actually ) I seem to have obliterated all traces of these folders-
Now I can't be certain where my eMail is stored.
Obviously, backing up all my eMail to Archival CD-ROM's would resolve this issue AND solve the storage problems. In just a few days, the eMail drawer is filled with folders ( I truncated the mess with A-B-C sub-folders, but it's still a bit unwieldy <Grin>
Is there anyway to be sure where these folders actually live?
Striderji
( Eric Cabot Steed )
mailto:unicity@mac.com
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