No, Mmario, I think Amos is talking about batch saves after the fact, from archive, without opening each one up. Knowing you could do that would allow for a plan where you would archive only what you plan on keeping in a downloaded form later.

Like, if I were to be able to tell the machine, "Save me all the messages I sent to (and got from) Mmario, in 2001" and put them here on this drive or on a CD, etc.

How about you all learn SQL and I'll let you query the database freely for whatever you want. I can just see it now, SQL practice Thread. I'll just disable UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE functions. So the above SQL statement would be something like: [SELECT * FROM PERSONALMESSAGES WHERE FromMember=MMario AND MESSAGEDATE IS GT 12/31/2000 AND MESSAGEDATE IS LT now()] Note, that I absolutely won't do this (the SQL thing). But I will see what else I can do. - Max

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