Outlook Express to Windows Mail - ISSUES Topic
Sat, 07/21/2007 - 14:47 — Ciprian
Problem importing contacts! - submited by "Raide"
I've imported my contacts, i have 9800+ contacts.
Now, every time i try to creat a new email, it freezes and i got to restart the program.
Also, is there a way to import my groups configuration? I had a lot of groups, and dont wanto to lose them.
Pls, help!!
THX!
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Outlook
You get that error because you need to create an e-mail account in Microsoft Outlook.
Not ALL Messages Import
I just recently got a Vista laptop to replace my father's aging (Win2000) computer. Yes, I know but it was faithful, he was comfortable with it, and I have a newer XP computer for me. Anyway, I managed to get his stuff from Outlook Express 6 on the Win2000 box to the Vista laptop and it all looked good... UNTIL I looked carefully. He has a couple years worth of emails, but while it imported most of them it left out the "sent" emails for all of 2007... it made about 20 or 30 blank emails all with the date and time of when I imported the outlook file. I've tried re-importing the entire file and only the file (sent) that I want but no joy. What am I doing wrong?
problem with subfolder
Hi,
I have imported successfully all mail with subfolder for winXP to win vista under the imported folder. Then I need to transfer all the inbox and subfolder under imported folder to his orginally inbox by drags and drop as you mentioned and i deleted all subfolder and inbox under the imported folder and from it root folder. But after deleted when i access mail from subfolder it simply given error "mail not found". I can access mail only from inbox.
Regards,
Mariappan
(networking administrator)
Win98 OE is that OE6?
I have my email in Outlook Express Win98. Can this be imported into Vista by selecting OE6?
Does anybody here know how to import message rules??
I had no trouble importing my address-book/accounts/emails into Windows mail from Outlook Express; however, the "Message Rules" were not included as a part of that import! If anyone here knows how to import these rules, please post it here... I will NOT be looking forward to manually adding these rules to Windows Mail!!
Import .iaf files from Outlook Express to Windows Mail
I exported my messages in Outlook Express before I moved to my new computer with Vista. I moved the .iaf folder to the new computer. I am working with Windows Mail and trying to import the messages, which OE saved as .iaf files and it will not recognize them. How do I import .iaf files into Windows Mail?
Importing additional files from OE to Windows Mail
I followed your procedures and was able to import my files - no problem. I then moved them out of the Imported folder to the Local Folder. HOWEVER, I now have some more files that I want to import. No matter how I try, when I click on Browse and go to my memory stick drive which now has the new files, I then click on that folder. When I go to the select screen it still brings me up the old files. No matter what I do I cannot seem to find the new files, even though they are on my flash drive. I tried to rename the folder but it still brings up the list of the original files. Is there any way I can add new files from my XP running PC to my Vista laptop?
Migrating Outlook Express files to Windows Mail
Just in case anyone else has had this problem: I've spent the last six hours trying to import Outlook Express files into Windows Mail. No luck. No matter what I tried (and I tried everything probable and improbable) I kept getting a message that there were no files to copy (or some such rot -- does anyone out there hate Vista as much as I do?). Finally I noticed that the import module was inserting an extra `Microsoft`in the string, so I moved the Outlook Express folder from the Microsoft folder to the Identities folder (ALONG WITH the Microsoft folder), ran the import again, and voila! -- it worked. Don`t ask me why...
Transferring messages from Outlook Express to Windows Mail
I've followed the method described on this site, I'm running WMail as Administrator and there are no read-only files in the OE6 temporary store. But there are still 2 problems:
1. WMail puts everything into 'Imported Folders', which will be a big hassle for me, as I have a VERY large number of folders and sub-folders. Dragging and dropping them from 'Imported Folders' will be a real pain. I can't be the only person with a large number of folders and sub-folders, so does anyone have a workaround?
2. The import into WMail always ceases after a few hundred messages (it always starts on the 'Deleted Messages' folder) and then WMail restarts itself -- why does this happen and, more importantly, how do I prevent it?
The only non-standard aspect that I can think of is that the WMail store folder and the OE6 temporary store are both in sub-folders of C:\Documents, ie, not in the Vista user folder called Documents. I can't see how this would affect the import.
Grateful for any help.
Imported Folders
The imported messages will always be placed in the "Imported Folders" folder. There is no workaround.
Regarding the Deleted Messages folder, it would be a good idea to empty it before migrating your messages to Windows Mail.
There is no point in migrating tons of useless messages.
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