How often do people loose their email data? Is this important to
backup your email client before loosing important emails? Are
you thinking it won’t happen to you?
Well, for those who use
an email client and loosing their emails is one of the worst
nightmares. Unfortunately this situation is quite probable.
There are several causes for this:
- Hard disk failure
- Viruses and Trojans
- Windows crashes
- Some time un-expected things
Hard Disk can fail from several reasons: logical problems
like bad partitions, hardware problems caused by dropping them
or something on them, or, sometimes they just stop functioning.
You can use several data recovery tools like GetDataBack or
Acronis, which might save your day. But you might not be able to
get back any byte.
Viruses are increasing their numbers day by day. It’s hard to
keep up even for the big players like Symantec or Kaspersky.
They reduced the response time for a new virus, but if you are
unlucky, the virus crashes your computer before you can apply
the antivirus.
Well, we all know how reliable Windows is. There is no person
that can say he never saw a “blue screen”. Because most of the
email clients store email, account and settings data in My
documents, Program files or in Windows registry. When you
reinstall the operating system you loose them all. Even
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates acknowledged that they counted 5
percent of total Windows based computers to crash twice every
day. Here’s a small report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html -
September 1, 2005.
The best way to count those situations is to backup emails on
a CD or another hard disk. People who know a little about
Windows and computers can do it by hand. Outlook Express is
still the most used email client.
If you want to backup Outlook Express by hand, you have to
save registry keys and DBX files. Saving messages, signatures
and the address book can be done within the email client, but
for settings you have to search through Windows registry. It can
be pretty difficult to do it for a beginner.
After a long search now I found a tool that can do this job
automatically. Adolix Outlook Express Backup. You can use this
software to backup Outlook Express, IncrediMail and some other
email clients. It’s an email saver program that can backup and
restore emails, addresses, folders, signatures and options.
What it cannot do is backing up Outlook Express and restoring
to Pegasus Mail for instance. Synchronization can take place
between different instances of the same email client.
It can be used to move emails from one computer to another.
For instance if you own a laptop and a PC, you can transfer
emails between them. Furthermore, you can backup Outlook Express
from Windows98 and restore it to Windows XP.
Adolix Outlook Express Backup has a wizard mode for
beginners, but the most experienced users can use Standard mode
for more speed. It costs only $24.95 and I think worth for too
much.
It’s pretty clear that anyone can loose emails. So backing up
your email client is essential, but you have to decide whether
to do it by hand or to purchase a tool like Adolix Outlook
Express Backup.
Ted Peterson writes for Adolix Software. Adolix Software is a
young company specialized in tools and utilities like Adolix
Outlook Express Backup (http://www.adolix.com/outlook-express-backup/
), Adolix PDF Converter or eCover Engineer.
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