I transferred some inbox files as "text" and it was easy. Windows XP
brings up notepad. But if you do them in bunches, it brings up a new
new notepad file each time...so I just copied them out into the original one.

They don't look at all like the originals, the graphics are all gone of course, but I do have more room now in my Private Messages box!

Thank you, both!

Hi Mrs. D:

Why not just go to your private message, copy into the clipboard, go to Microsoft word (or wordpad), make a new document, paste in the contents of whatever it says in the private message and VOILA, you have document with your private message right there. Then click on file, save, give it a name, (for example, MY PRIVATE MESSAGES).

Then you can copy all your private messages and bring up the document, paste in the messages, etc. etc.

You will still have the pm's on the message board, but you will also now have a document with all your copied private messages.

Seems simpler to me than banging your head worrying bout ascii files, and downloading anything.

I'm no computer geek. I like things SIMPLE!!!!

Just a thought!!! Melody

hi Mrs D, glad it worked out for you. The downside of using text/ascii would be the fact of its simplicity. No rich text formats, no rich extensive fonts, just a simple Microsoft native format.

Which should answer Ms. Melody's question about simplicity.

probably no other format will be simpler than the text format.

1) not everyone has Microsoft "WORD" (Bill Gates used to give it for free as a bundle that came with the computers when the computers cost thousands. But now that the computers are cheaper[yet faster], the MS people are now charging about $200.00 for MS office thus we now have to pay for WORD) but every computer have notepad built right in.

2)based on number one, we can safely bet that if anyone have had saved it in the text format and they've had to reformat their hardrive or upgrade to a new Window system, they then would not need to install an additional software because of the native format of the TEXT.

3)using TEXT also saves more space for those that don't want to clutter up space on their hardrive.

hope all these explain the reasoning behind why for me, I prefer to save it in TEXT.



cheerio

I know about copying into Word, but you have to open each one separately and do it that way... for 240 messages, that is too much work!

If it were done a little each day, then it would be easier. I did save some
old ones from OBT that way.

I also have Evernote, and it is similar...it saves a whole page, as it appears.
But I didn't want to open each one to get to them.

With the text downloads it is ONE CLICK ! then done!

Thanks for the suggestion tho.