Once the process is complete, label the DVD with a Sharpie or similar permanent marker and put it in a case somewhere safe. That’s a lot faster, but it just feels less secure to me. Of course, you could also copy the file to a thumb drive. The whole purpose of this exercise is to have a back-up, so the few extra minutes spent verifying the copy seem well worth it to me. It’s tempting to turn off the “verify” option to speed things up, but don’t do that. In my case, with 1.8GB of mail, this process took about 11 minutes with a 8X external DVD drive. Now you’ll need to wait for the file to be burned to the DVD. I always change the name of the DVD to “Mail Archive” or similar in the window that pops up, but this is entirely optional. ![]() Click the radioactive burn icon to start the disc burning process. ![]() ![]() Once you’ve dragged the file on to the “Untitled DVD” icon, you’ll see an entry for the file in the list of files on the DVD.ģ. Drag the file “Outlook for Mac Archive.olm” from Documents onto the “Untitled DVD” icon.Ģ. Drag the OLM file on to the disk burning icon and click on the icon to start the burning process.ġ. Connect a USB DVD drive and insert a DVD-R disc. This step is entirely optional, but I backup the file to a DVD.
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