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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Transferring messages from Outlook Express to Windows Mail
Thanks for the reply, Ciprian. But why on earth would Microsoft force us to use a new email client (if we have Vista) without providing a seamless method of transferring all data from OE to WMail?? And why are all imported mail folders forced into a special folder instead of putting them directly into Local Folders as the OE6 import does?
You haven't provided any help with my second problem -- your point about 'migrating tons of useless messages' is a personal opinion which (long story, which I will not go into) does not apply in my case. I would have preferred some helpful advice, rather than an unhelpful opinion. Nevertheless, I will try the transfer without that folder to see what happens and report back.
Hello
Hello Lindsay,
I don't know why Microsoft did not bother to offer a seamless method of transferring all data from OE to WMail. We did our best in trying to help people by creating a migration guide. I know it requires a lot of work but this method seems to be the only one working. In most cases...
The sad part is that Windows Mail is not truly supported by Microsoft. Right now they are pushing to promote Windows Live Mail and my guess is Windows Mail will never be updated but phased out somehow.
Regarding your second problem... I did not want to offend you in any way. Usually, the Deleted Messages folder contains the messages you do not need.
No 'Add Contact' Button in Windows Mail
I recently purchased a computer with Vista and managed with some help to migrate my address book and mail from Outlook Express to Windows Mail. There appears to be a problem with the Mail however because I can't add a contact.
When I click on 'contact' at the top it does pull up my address book, but nowhere on the screen do I find a 'add contact' button.
I figured out that if I go into 'create mail' and pull up the address book in the 'send to' row, there is an 'add contact' there, but only there. And then when I add a contact, it doesn't appear in my address book. Any suggestions?
Oh, and the address book that pulls up in the 'send to' address extract does NOT match the one that pulls up when I enter Mail. Are they pointing to two different adddress files? How do I find out?
Creating new mail
I just purchased a new computer with Windows Vista on it. When my daughter accesses her webmail on her college website she cannot reply or create a new message. It will not allow her to write the message. She can put in the contact info and subject but not write a message. There is a X in the left hand corner of box. One note she is able to do this task on a computer that has a windows program other than vista. Can someone help! Next semester is starting soon.
I accomplished with
I accomplished with thunderbird in 5 minutes what has took me 5 hours of failure with any microsoft mail server. embarrassing. my next machine is an apple.
Windows mail not working properly after importing from outlook
Hi
I tried and followed your advice on importing contacts and e-mails from outlook express to windows mail. Unfortunately i can only see my contacts but not my inbox. The inbox shows that there are 40 mails but i cannot read them, although i can read them when i search for them in the forlder that i saved them to when copying them from outlook express 6. I also get a message; Possible causes are:
Low disk space.
Low memory.
That is impossible because i bought a brand new laptop with 1 GB of RAM and the HDD still has 60GB of storage space left on it.
Please help.
Thank you
Problem transfering email mesages and addres book fro one Comput
I have used two CD discs to copy all my email messages and have checked their being on the CD's on both the XP and VISTA computers. But they cannot be read to transpose them into VISTA Email.
It may be a problem where they are read only but I cannot find where to change them to obviate that condition.
Any help will be appreciated. The web page for this site fpr moving email messages seems to be for moving copies of these files within the same computer, not between two separate computers.
Stuart Myers
No obvious how to fix this problem if new to Vista
All I wanted to do was to transfer mail & addresses from my old WinMe machine with Outlook Express 6.0, to my shiny new notebook with Vista and Outlook 2007. You would have thought the simple way, was to get Outlook 2007 to import mail and address book by reading the .wab and .dbx files across the network and importing directly into Outlook 2007.
But no, I can't access files across the network due to changes in the authentication protocols - Vista uses NTLMv2, while WinMe uses LM and NTLM (there is a registry hack to fix this but I didn't want to mess with the registry when I had only had the machine for a day). In the end I copied the .wab and .dbx files onto a CD to copy them to my new notebook.
Next problem, Outlook 2007 cannot directly read the files - according to Microsoft you need to use Outlook Express. Again, it's a new machine and I didn't want to install Outlook Express if it meant I had to "downgrade" to IE6 (apparently the case since it come as an IE6 setup file). But I did find that Outlook 2007 could read fom Outlook Express' replacement, Windows Mail.
The last big problem was the bug in the Windows Mail import function, where it claims there are no files to be found. In an earlier effort to get round the problem, I had messed around with the file protection and ownership and it still made no difference. Finally I noticed, it had repeated the last folder in the file path. To get round this, I needed to navigate to the parent folder of the folder containg the .dbx files, and then in the right-hand pane simply select the folder (ie. one click only).
The import of mails and addresses then went smoothly. I was finally able to fire up Outlook 2007, and import my mail and address from Windows Mail.
To summarise:
Step 1: Copy the .wab and .dbx to the new machine.
Step 2; Start Windows Mail - there's no need to create a mail account.
Step 3: Import the addresses from the .wab file.
Step 4: Import the mail messages from the .dbx files (only select the folder). Windows Mail should then import successfully.
Step 5: Close Windows Mail and open Outlook 2007.
Step 6: Choose "Import from another program or file" then "Outlook Express... Windows Mail", and all your mails end up in Outlook 2007.
OE addressbook to Windows Mail
I have many addresses in OE(over 800), mostly in folders. When I import the .wab file they are no longer in folders - just a straight list.
How can I retain the folder structure that I have created?
Contacts in Windows Mail
I have exported successfully address book CSV format from Outlook Express to Windows Mail but when i write mail in windows mail as like email address is display in outlook express means as soon as i type first character of email address it show full email addresses related to that character,in windows mail that don`t show email address i must manually type full email address.
Any suggestions for this issue?
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