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re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 3:17 am Posted by Mike (13 messages posted) You can always try resending the emails to your email address, and then log in with Vista and pick them up. That is the only sure way of keeping them. Mike. On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1:58 am, Terrie wrote: >Just got a new computer with Vista Home Premuim. I put all my data from my old ME >onto a memory stick and it has all gone over fine except emails. I have tried using >import, but when I browse to where the emails are it tells me that no items meet >my search. >I am not technically savvy, so any help in plain language would be much appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 7:59 am Posted by JSanders (251 messages posted) Exactly how did you export your emails from the old machine? The simplest way is to export as a personal folder file (.pst) and then you can easily import them to your new machine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 8:24 am Posted by Terrie (11 messages posted) All my emails on the old machine went into a designated folder, and as far as I remember, I dragged and dropped the folder into the memory stick. They are all dbx files. I guess I have gone wrong somewhere. On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 7:59 am, JSanders wrote: >Exactly how did you export your emails from the old machine? The simplest way is >to export as a personal folder file (.pst) and then you can easily import them to >your new machine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 11:06 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Was the Me computer running Outlook Express 5 or 6? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:05 pm Posted by Terrie (11 messages posted) OE 6 Dan On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 11:06 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >Was the Me computer running Outlook Express 5 or 6? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1:38 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Windows Mail was designed to directly import messages from an OE6 mailstore using the same procedure as OE6 (in fact Windows Mail is just the next version of OE6). Do you have multiple OE6 Identities on your Me computer? Are you sure you copied the right folders? Have a look at Step1A in this MS KB article to find the message store: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670/ My guess would be that there is some problem with what you copied onto your flash drive. I would suggest that you delete the folders on the flash drive that have the OE6 mailstore from your Me computer and then try again. Be sure to have OE6 on the Me computer closed/shut down before doing the copy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 5:49 pm Posted by Kevin (19 messages posted) I just did this 2 days ago. I saved the old DBX files to a 2nd hard drive and connected it to the new Vista computer. I tried telling it to find the DBX's on the 2nd drive, but (for reasons I don't know) it couldn't see the DBX files. The answer was making sure they wer on the Vista partition. Not on another HD or CD or USB flash device. Copy them somewhere onto the Vista C drive. I created a subfolder under Documents (formerly My Documents) named it EMAIL and moved the DBX files there. Then I opened My Mail, did a File/Import, chose OE6, hit the Browse button and pointed it to Documents/EMAIL and it worked. Yay. On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1:38 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >Windows Mail was designed to directly import messages from an OE6 mailstore using >the same procedure as OE6 (in fact Windows Mail is just the next version of OE6). > >Do you have multiple OE6 Identities on your Me computer? > >Are you sure you copied the right folders? Have a look at Step1A in this MS KB article >to find the message store: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670/ > >My guess would be that there is some problem with what you copied onto your flash >drive. I would suggest that you delete the folders on the flash drive that have >the OE6 mailstore from your Me computer and then try again. Be sure to have OE6 >on the Me computer closed/shut down before doing the copy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Monday, April 2, 2007 at 2:21 am Posted by Terrie (11 messages posted) Thankyou Dan. I have to be out all day today, but asap shall try starting over as per the instructions and see what happens. I thought I had done it right by having a different designated folder for my emails to go to on the old computer and copying from there. I don't have multiple identities. On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1:38 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >Windows Mail was designed to directly import messages from an OE6 mailstore using >the same procedure as OE6 (in fact Windows Mail is just the next version of OE6). > >Do you have multiple OE6 Identities on your Me computer? > >Are you sure you copied the right folders? Have a look at Step1A in this MS KB article >to find the message store: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670/ > >My guess would be that there is some problem with what you copied onto your flash >drive. I would suggest that you delete the folders on the flash drive that have >the OE6 mailstore from your Me computer and then try again. Be sure to have OE6 >on the Me computer closed/shut down before doing the copy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Monday, April 2, 2007 at 8:48 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Try Kevin's advice, sounds promising....:-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Monday, April 2, 2007 at 8:52 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Here's a tip from Inside OE (http://www.insideoe.com/backup/simple.htm): "3. Backup your mail folders. "In OE, click Tools| Options| Maintenance| Store folder to see the path to the folder currently being used for your message store. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the Store. Copy the Folders.dbx file and all .dbx files to your backup media. It is not necessary to copy any .dbx file because OE will not import newsgroup messages, only messages in mail folders. You must include Folders.dbx in your backup or you will be unable to import the mail folders! "To restore your mail folders, open OE and click File| Import| Messages| OE5 (or OE6 if OE5 is not listed)| Message store directory, then browse to the folder containing your old messages. Do not copy the backup files into the current OE message store or the import will fail. If you saved your backup on a CD or a networked drive, you will need to copy the backup to your hard disk and verify that none of the *.dbx files are marked as "read only", or the import will fail." You might not have copied the Folders.dbx folder....that could prevent the import from working. Generally the part about checking to make sure the dbx folders did not get marked as read only applies when transfering using a CD-----IME you don't get this issue when copying to a flash drive. But it's worth a look anywho. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transferring emails Monday, April 2, 2007 at 9:24 am Posted by Terrie (11 messages posted) Brilliant Kevin - many thanks, that worked! I copied all the files from the memory stick into a folder on the hard drive and they transferred from there. Thanks to all you guys for your help. On Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 5:49 pm, Kevin wrote: >I just did this 2 days ago. I saved the old DBX files to a 2nd hard drive and connected >it to the new Vista computer. I tried telling it to find the DBX's on the 2nd drive, >but (for reasons I don't know) it couldn't see the DBX files. The answer was making >sure they wer on the Vista partition. Not on another HD or CD or USB flash device. > Copy them somewhere onto the Vista C drive. I created a subfolder under Documents >(formerly My Documents) named it EMAIL and moved the DBX files there. Then I opened >My Mail, did a File/Import, chose OE6, hit the Browse button and pointed it to Documents/EMAIL >and it worked. 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