Copy emails

ps2659

Hi
Just a novice so please be gentle, I am trying to transfer about 6 emails from my inbox to a portable hard drive some have attatchments anyone know an easy way to do this.?
Thanks in advance

Ant555

What email program do you use? - is it something like Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express maybe or do you log on to a web site to get your emails (hotmail.com, gmail.com etc)

It might be as easy as dragging the messages, one at a time, from one window to another but post back with the details of the email app you use.

ps2659

Ant555 wrote: »

What email program do you use? - is it something like Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express maybe or do you log on to a web site to get your emails (hotmail.com, gmail.com etc)

It might be as easy as dragging the messages, one at a time, from one window to another but post back with the details of the email app you use.

Thanks for the quick response I use windows live mail,outlook express and the other one is Orange webmail I think.

macman

The attachments can just be copied to the desktop and then copied to the external drive like any other file.

grumpycrab

Guess its worth explaining the difference between saving email and saving attachments.
If its juts the attchments you want saving then select the email with your mouse and right-mouse-click should provide an option to "save attahcments". Use the box that comes up to save to your hard drive.

Saving emails. Select the email with your mouse. Then usually at the File menu there will be a "save as" option. Select "save as" then "file" and use the box that comes up to save to your hard drive. Where are you taking your hard drive? Because where you take it too needs to be able to understand the "type" of email you have just saved.

Ant555

i/we can definitely help.

One quick question - as already mentioned, are you simply after saving a copy of the email attachment as a file that you can simply open and read whenever you want or do you want both the attachment and also any text that was written the body of the email as well?

ps2659

Ant555 wrote: »

i/we can definitely help.

One quick question - as already mentioned, are you simply after saving a copy of the email attachment as a file that you can simply open and read whenever you want or do you want both the attachment and also any text that was written the body of the email as well?

Thanks for the reply
We need to be able to move the text and the attatchment to the portable hard drive.
Thanks for your help.

googler

Save the attachments to a location on your PC.

Copy/paste the text from the emails to word docs or txt files. Maybe in the same folders as you saved the attachments to.

Once they're all done, copy/paste these folders to the external HDD