<p>In order to save private messages you want to keep - it’s really easy.</p>
<li><p>Bring up the PM and display it.</p></li>
<li><p>Click into the PM window and highlight the text you want - then copy it.</p></li>
<li><p>Open your word processing program and paste the text into a document, then save the document.</p></li>
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<p>Never lose another message you want to keep :)</p>
<p>I’ve been doing this forever…in fact, I have about 20 mega-page docs!</p>
<p>You can also export your whole store of PMs in bulk if you want to clear out your inbox or sent folder. Look for the export link near the bottom while you are in the folder view.</p>
<p>Thanks Roger!</p>
<p>Duh! Why didn’t I think of this! Tks. guys!</p>
<p>^ Just make sure you give it a name and save it someplace. Sometimes I just close it and then discover later I didn’t save it.</p>
<p>Sorry, I figured everyone knew how to do this. But I was wrong. I was right once…so my wife tells me. ;)</p>
<p>An advantage to the copying method is that you only save what you want.</p>
<p>Hey, thanks everyone for this idea. I have been reluctantly deleting PM’s every time I get near the magic “50.”</p>
<p>Roger - could you or someone expand a little on this? I must be missing something. I see a drop down menu allowing me to delete, move to a folder, etc. And I see Download links. But I don’t see an “Export” link and can’t figure out how to export. Thanks.</p>
<p>I’ve been following a combo of parent2noles/berurah’s idea, occasionally saving some messages in a Word doc, and momof3son’s idea of reluctantly deleting when I hit the magic 50.</p>
<p>On the PM page - be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottm of the page. On the right side, at the bottom, you’ll see 'Download all Private messages as: XML | CSV | Text</p>
<p>The xml, csv and text headings are hyperlinks. Each represents a different format of your PM messages. Probably the simplist is ‘text’, but try them all to see what you like.</p>