<div>> The total amount of e-mail I have collected over the years has gotten rather large.  I am in the real estate business so I need to keep old</div><div>> e-mail records.  How can I slim down my folders and store the bulk of those older e-mails on an external hard drive? </div><div> </div><div>Here is a method of archiving files to the directory "Archive" on the local hard drive.  This same procedure will work for any read/write drive.  </div><div> </div><div>1.  Open the folder listing.  Go to the menu "Folders" next to "Tools". </div><div> </div><div>2.  Use  "Add mailbox to list", enter C:\Archive as the path, Archive as the name. </div><div> </div><div>3.  Add a folder to the mailbox called "Archive", the name is not important.  You can also just use the New mail folder on the disk</div><div>    but this storage is not as efficient since each message is stored separately.  </div><div> </div><div>4.  Move the messages to this folder on the disk drive.  </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>There are some operational limitations here:</div><div> </div><div>A.  Of course the size of this mailbox is limited by the size of the disk. </div><div> </div><div>B.  Don't just drag an existing folder (or tray) from "My Mailbox" to the floppy drive mailbox or from the floppy to the "My</div><div>    Mailbox". It *appears* to work, but actually doesn't. The folder won't be moved to the floppy.  This limitation is being</div><div>    worked. </div><div> </div><div>There is also this utility that can do this for you.</div><div> </div><div>PMRestArch - Pegasus Mail Restore Mail Folder Archives:</div><div>http://www.lexacorp.com.pg</div><div> </div><div>Usage:</div><div>PMRestArch SourceDir DestinationDir</div><div> </div><div>Description:</div><div>Pegasus Mail cannot display two mail folders with the same internal ID even if they are in separate mailboxes. Mail folders also have to be Read-Write.</div><div>       </div><div>This causes problems when trying to view mail folders which have been archived by copying them to backup media.</div><div> </div><div>This utility:</div><div> </div><div>1.  Copies all .PMM and .PMI files in the source directory to the destination directory and renames them as BAKxxxxx.PMM</div><div>    and BAKxxxx.PMI. </div><div> </div><div>2.  Ensures that the resulting file is Read/Write. </div><div> </div><div>3.  Creates a different internal unique ID for each file. </div><div> </div><div>Once you have run this program to restore archived folders to a directory you can attach that directory using the Pegasus Mail 'Add mailbox to list' option and access the archived folders in this new mailbox.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>

<P>The total amount of e-mail I have collected over the years has gotten rather large.  I am in the real estate business so I need to keep old e-mail records.  How can I slim down my folders and store the bulk of those older e-mails on an external hard drive?</P>