How do I Save the folders where I have saved my emails

[FrankFitz]

I have saved common thread emails to folders, for example all car insurance emails containing details of my car insurance to a single folder.
All emails containing details of ebay orders in another folder and all emails containing details of prsonal letters in another folder. I am about to upgrade my computer from windows seven to windows eight and need to save these folders containing multiple emails to a separate hard drive so I can reload them back into my computer after upgrading. Can anybody help with simple instructions as I am not particularly comuter literate. francisfitz@btinternet.com

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Plug in a USB drive, drag over the folders, move them back later. Easy as that (unless I'm misinterpreting your intentions)

 

[boosted1g]

Plug in a USB drive, drag over the folders, move them back later. Easy as that (unless I'm misinterpreting your intentions)

From the sounds of what the OP is saying, he is using Outlook, or thunderbird or some other email client program in which case the emails are not in folders like you see on the desktop.


TO OP:
What program are you using for email, that will determine where the file is that you need to back up, although most clients allow you to backup/.export it into one easy to transfer file.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Plug in a USB drive, drag over the folders, move them back later. Easy as that (unless I'm misinterpreting your intentions)

From the sounds of what the OP is saying, he is using Outlook, or thunderbird or some other email client program in which case the emails are not in folders like you see on the desktop.


TO OP:
What program are you using for email, that will determine where the file is that you need to back up, although most clients allow you to backup/.export it into one easy to transfer file.

There should be some file directory I'd assume with all the emails stored on the machine.

 

[boosted1g]

In thunderbird there is .mbox, one for each direcotry

But for outlook there is just one .pst file that has every email/folder in the one file, it is more or less a database.