Topic: Incredimail Message Saving

[Sandra]

Is there not a folder already somewhere Adept which stores the messages? I use Incredimail and have done a file and folder search and looked in each one that I thought may have my mail in but to no avail.
It must store then somewhere prior to exporting to a folder of your own surely  

[bat69]

Sandra,

Incredimail does store mail in a folder, can't remember where at the mo, but will find out for you when I'm using my own PC. If I remember right, it saves them in its own format that I think is encrypted.

[Sandra]

Thanks Bat,I thought it must be there somewhere but it doesnt have the same options as Adept mentioned for OE and the only export option is for the address book,although it can import from other mail progs  

[bat69]

Sandra,

Incredimail stores the info in the following directory

Incredimail | Data | Identities | {xxx strange number xxx} | Address  ..... or Messages

[Sandra]

Well done Bat. I have found them but still have a slight problem
It has the folders,inbox etc,as .imm and .imh files. I have tried opening them with Incredimail and with Incredimail content. With content it says its not an incredimail content file and with Incredimail it wants to send it as an attachment to a mail recipient  

[bat69]

I'll have a bit of a dig around and see if I can get it to extract the files

[bat69]

ok Sandra
You can export the address book as a csv file, the icon I saw looked similar to an excel icon, so I'm not sure if it is a recognisable format.

As for messages themselves, you can save individual ones using "Save As" and change the extension to a txt format

I'll keep digging

[Sandra]

Thanks Bat. I had saved my address book to a floppy some weeks back straight from Incredimail it opens in Excel I think as it was a spreadsheet when I checked it had saved it ok.Maybe I should try opening the mail ones in that too  

[Adept]

it opens in Excel I think as it was a spreadsheet when I checked it had saved it ok

It is probably a .csv file Sandra. Excel defaults to opening them for some reason

[Sandra]

Excel opens both types in a fashion  
Its very jumbled and seems to be mainly the address its from and the subject but hasnt any content  

[bat69]

Sandra,

All I can suggest for your emails, is to save them as text files, one by one. Incredimail doesn't seem to want to export them in any other way :-";"xx

[Sandra]

I think it may be worth saving the folders as they are then posibly seeing if they will reimport into Incredimail at a later date if I have to wipe my drive at some future time.
Do you think that may work Bat?

I think its time to try the new splitting and merging feature,sorry if I screw up all the previous stuff  

[Sandra]

Hey guys it works and its dead easy to do as well  

Splitting the threads I mean  

[bat69]

I do believe it will work Sandra. I hope so as that is what I'm going to be doing very soon

I'd copy the whole 'Identities' folder, better still, if you've got a CD-R, then copy the whole Incredimail installation, put it on your new HD and then reinstall Incredimail over the top of it. I've done that before and it worked just fine. I didn't lose a thing ..... only my marbles :'(

[bat69]

Splitting hairs ... erm threads is all well and good.... but it confused me when I went to post something and couldn't find the posts