lately i've noticed that my PM box has been taking forever to load, and i'm thinking perhaps it's b/c of the 1200 old messages on it (i can't *imagine* how slow the system must be for those of you who've been around awhile). i tend to delete some, but most of them have meaning of some sort (some tremendously more than others, of course )and i'm reluctant to just delete the whole lot of them.

do any of you techies know of a way to copy all of the messages, as as group (one by one would be prohitively arduous) to another drive, to save space??

any help would be greatly appreciated.