How Do I Move Email to an External Hard Drive?

⏱️ The Outlook.com/OneDrive space limitation has many people looking for ways to download and preserve emails offline.

⏱️ Move email to an external hard drive
In most email programs you can save individual messages as “.eml” files, which you can save wherever you like, including external hard drives. As an alternative, you can use an email program that allows for local folder storage, and move messages there. While not on your external hard drive, this approach allows you to access the messages from within the email program for easy access.

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0:40 OneDrive is suddenly full
1:40 Downloading messages one by one
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6:00 Local Folders
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