[Free] How to Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive in Bulk

• User Case
• Why Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive?
• How to Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive via MultCloud
• How to Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive in Common Way
• Conclusion

User Case

If you have a similar need, you can practice with the 2 following methods to export your Hotmail emails from the MultCloud website or Outlook website. Since you may have many emails to backup, the ways offered in the post both support batch-export which will save much of your energy.

Why Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive?

Backing up Hotmail (also Outlook) emails to your hard drive offers several important benefits, including:

1. Data Security

Storing your emails on a physical hard drive gives you control over your data. This reduces the risk of losing money in the event of a Hotmail server failure or security issues such as hacking or data leaks.

2. Offline Access to Important Emails

If you have a backup of your emails on your hard drive, you can access them even without an Internet connection, which is useful when you are traveling or in an area with a weak Internet connection.

3. Email Recovery

When you accidentally delete an email from your Hotmail account or face issues with your account, you can definitely recover important emails from a local backup.

4. Storage Management

Some online services, such as Hotmail, have storage limits. By backing up your emails, you can create space in your account without losing access to your old emails.

How to Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive via MultCloud

If you are looking for a time-efficient way to save Hotmail emails to your hard drive, you can consider using MultCloud, a free web-based cloud storage and email client manager. After adding Outlook to MultCloud, you can manage your emails not only on the Outlook web but also on MultCloud. With this service, you can also download, delete, preview copy, or cut Outlook emails. Besides, MultCloud uses data traffic to download emails which ensures stable and fast downloading speed.

Besides, MultCloud will save your Outlook emails as PDF which benefits for email archiving, previewing, and sharing. But there is one thing that should be noticed that MultCloud only allows you to download less than 200 emails at once. If you have a large number of emails to backup, you may have to run the task for times.

Hotmail Backup Tool Free - MultCloud

Step 1. Enter the MultCloud website and click Get started for free to sign up.

Step 2. Click Add Email and choose the Outlook icon. Then, log in to your Outlook account in the pop-up window.

Step 3. Select Outlook in the left sidebar and open the email folder where the desired emails are. Then, choose the emails and click Download in the upper menu bar, or right-click on the emails and choose Download.

Step 4. Name the download zip file and check the downloaded settings. Finally, tap OK to start downloading.

• Save Attachments: You can choose whether to download the attachments or not.
• Conversation Format: All the messages in an email will be displayed individually.
• Save the last message only: Only display the last message individually and other messages will be shown as its quotation.

Bonus Tip: How to Backup Hotmail Emails to a Cloud Drive

If your local drive does not have enough storage, you can use a cloud drive like Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox instead. MultCloud also gives a way to directly save emails to the cloud as PDFs and you will use Email Migration.

Step 1. Create a MultCloud account and add Outlook to MultCloud.

Step 2. Add a cloud drive to MultCloud (OneDrive for example) by clicking Add Cloud and the OneDrive logo.

Step 3. Select Email Migration and choose Outlook in the left box and OneDrive in the right box.

Step 4. Open Options to check the migration settings and tap Migrate Now to start this task.

How to Backup Hotmail Emails to Hard Drive in Common Way

There is another solution on how to backup Outlook emails from browser which is utilizing the Outlook export feature. However, if you have masses of files to export, it may take you up to 4 days to complete. Therefore, this way may be not suitable if you need to save emails to the local urgently.

Step 1. Go to the Outlook website and log in to your account.

Step 2. Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner to open the Settings.

Step 3. Navigate to General and choose Privacy and data. Then, tap on the Export mailbox button. After that, you can see the status of the exporting process. When it is finished, you will receive an email with a link and you can download emails from the link.

Conclusion

How to backup Hotmail emails to hard drive. You have 2 choices: directly download email as PDFs via MultCloud or export from the Outlook export feature. If you want to backup easily and fast, the MultCloud solution is recommended since it will not need you to wait for an exporting link and then download from the link.

Moreover, MultCloud also offers you a solution to backup emails to the cloud. You can use Email Migration to save emails to Google Drive, OneDrive, NAS, pCloud, or other cloud storage services without downloading and uploading. Besides, MultCloud also supports Gmail. Thus, if you want to export emails from Gmail or move Gmail emails to the cloud, you can also try MultCloud.