hi alexander i have been saving emails in a kind of help file for me broken over about one hundred folders in subheadings for the particular problem and answer how can i export to a database? im updating to fc3 soon on a new machine but i will be taking along this hdd but will formatting it on install to be able to export the data and not loose it is the only reason i havent updated already thanks for any insights evo 1.4.6 fc2 x86_64 thanks david