Thanks for your comments.

"Might simply be that the path is too long" does seem to be the case. Also, long file names seem to be ok with a shorter path.

This was a means to an end of trying to use MailStore  for archiving. A different program has been suggested, in another post, that is compatible with PMail without having to save to disc first. I will trial that first in case I don't need to worry about this particular problem.

Terry

I would like some help with saving mails to disc please.

I don't seem to be able to properly save a batch of e-mails in a folder to to disc.

I open a  folder, select all and then choose "Save messages to disc". Then select "To Separate Files with Unique Names" and OK, browse to a folder, enter a file name and Save.

I end up with only 3 files when there are say, 50 in the folder.

When I try again with a different folder and saving to the same folder with a different file name, I get a message about correcting the file name.

I was able to do this back in 2006 and only remember that I had to be careful with file names, otherwise it worked and I still have those files.

Can some one advise please, what am I missing?

Terry.

Ok, I've answered my own question:

You must use a high level folder, this is probably a left-over from DOS days.

For example,  you can use C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\PM Text Archives

but not  the "subfolder" shown here C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\PM Text Archives\subfolder

I think file names of no more that 8 characters are required too.

Terry.

[quote user="tjm42"]Ok, I've answered my own question:

You must use a high level folder, this is probably a left-over from DOS days.

For example,  you can use C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\PM Text Archives

but not  the "subfolder" shown here C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\PM Text Archives\subfolder

I think file names of no more that 8 characters are required too.

Terry.[/quote]

Might simply be that the path is too long when the whole thing is used in a filter.  Have you tried mapping say z: to  C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents and creating the directory "subfolder" so that you could use something like z:\PM Text Archives\subfolder? 

Also are you saying that a attachment with a long filename is not supported?