New “Save Emails” Button in Microsoft Mail and Calendar App

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I am using the Microsoft Mail and Calendar app that was preinstalled with my Windows 10 computer when I bought it several years ago to download my emails from my email provider (which is not Microsoft). Today I noticed for the first time that there is a “Save Emails” button at the top of each mail folder. Has anyone else noticed the addition of this button?

Of course, it is possible that the button has always been there and that I simply haven’t noticed it, but I don’t think that is the case.

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Never heard of such a button. Could you provide a screenshot?

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In the attached screenshot the icon or button, which looks like an old floppy disk, is located immediately to the right of the two arrows that appear to be going in a circle. The button appears above every email folder. When a cursor is moved over it the words “Save Emails” appears.

I have not clicked the button because I have a hunch that doing so will install and/or start up the “New Outlook” which I do not want to do yet.

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I don’t think it’s new as Windows Mail has had a “Save as” button for years, but it may have moved. I’m sure it won’t switch to New Outlook.

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I just clicked the “Save Emails” button at the top of one of my email folders. The message that then popped up was “The messages in your currently selected folder will be saved to this location on your device” followed by a long address on the C: drive and two buttons, “Save” and “Cancel.”

Occasionally in the past I have used the “Save as” button to save individual emails. This seemingly new “Save Emails” button apparently enables a user to save all the emails in a particular folder, but I have not taken the final step, i. e. clicking on the “Save” button, to do so.

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Thanks for testing that far. I was not aware of that new option (and couldn’t find information about it anywhere).

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