Title:  Can I save an entire WebPine folder to my PC and restore it later?

Question:
I am running out of disk space on the C&C computers and would like to
offload some large folders to my PC so I can retrieve them later.
Can I do this?

Answer:
Yes:  WebPine has a nifty Export/Import feature that lets you save entire
folders to your PC with a few clicks of the mouse, in such a way that you
can restore them later.  In addition, you can send these folders to
another WebPine user as ordinary attachments.

Let us suppose that you have a folder named "abc" that is taking up a
great deal of space and you want to offload it to your PC to free up
space.  But you also want to retrieve it later, or send it to another
WebPine user.  You do this:

(a) Click the [Folder List] button/link in the left hand green column

(b) Click the radio button to the left of the folder to select it:
          (*)   abc

(c) Click the "Export" icon near the top of the web page:  it sends you to
    a window named "Folder Export", and then opens a smaller window named
    "File Download" (in the case of a Win XP computer) and then appends 
    the suffix ".mbx" to the folder name, in this case "abc.mbx".

(d) Click [Save] and NOTE CAREFULLY THE DIRECTORY or location where you 
    saved it and then click [Close] followed by [Return to Folder List].

(e) At this point you may wish to delete the folder from WebPine (note 
    that you may have to exit the [Folder List] and re-enter it in order 
    to free the folder from control by WebPine so you can delete it)

Now, to get this folder back, you do this:

(a) Click the [Folder List] button/link in the left hand green column

(b) Click the [Import...] button in the upper right corner (you may have
    to scroll to the top to see this control)

(c) This opens a window named "Folder Upload and Import" which requires 
    that you do two things:
       1 Type in or browse to the ".mbx" folder you wish to import
       2 Give it a name, e.g., browse to the directory with "abc.mbx"
         and select it, and then give it the name "abc" (if you want to
         use the same name)


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