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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Possible issues with transferring .DBX files into Vista Mail
Haven't tried all your suggestions yet...and am terrified I won't be able to make these files transfer.
Hubby thought he helped and moved all my OE .dbx files to a MY Book for safekeeping during PC rebuild and new PC purchase. Unfortunately he did not move all the files under OE...ie: no FOLDERS file, no INBOX file...just my "working" .dbx files. How can I transfer these files into Windows Vista Mail...or can I? And, if I can not, how is the best way to access them without extracting ALL the emails. That would mean thousands and thousands to extract as I receive at least 3000 a day. *ick to imagine the mess* Please...anyone...suggestions?
Pulling my hair out.
No no, the secret is NOT to
No no, the secret is NOT to double click on the folder name when about to import. Just single click on the folder name then OK below.
Now you will see a big list of all the Mail Folders you made.
Unfortunately, we can only import them one at a time and some of them don't work. Might be a problem with the old hard drive but what a pain importing them each one at a time.
Porting OE emails on Win98 laptop to Windows Mail on new laptop
I have a year 2000 laptop running Windows 98, and I want to port the Outlook Express emails on it to Windows Mail on a new laptop running Vista.
My problem is that the several of the Outlook Express email files are too large to fit on a floppy, and the laptop can't burn CDs or DVDs.
The laptop also can't handle a flash drive.
I tried emailing the files and ran into server limits on number of emails sent at one time (I think).
Is there any other way to transfer the email files?
Thanks.
Importing messages from Outlook Express to Windows Mail.
Like everyone else I have the same problem. When trying to use the import wizard I get the message: No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running...
I have followed Ciprian's tutorial and other instructions. I am the administrator. The files are not hidden, and they are not read only.
Still no success.
Is there anything else I can do, please?
Outlook Express e-mails into Vista Windows Mail
In my case, my old computer died (fried motherboard) but the harddrive was okay. We bought a new computer (with Vista) and I installed the old harddrive in the new computer. I want to import all of the old Outlook Express e-mails into the new Windows Mail application. I obviously don't have my old computer, so I can't export the messages from Outlook Express as described here. I did manage to import my contacts/address book, but have not had any luck with the e-mails.
Am I just out of luck?
Outllook to Windows Mail
I'm trying to migrate my old emails from outlook express to windows mail. My issue is before I got my new computer I was not able to save my information elsewhere, though I do have my old hard drive installed in my new computer. Is there a way to retreive my old email information?
Thank you
WOW!!!
VERY helpful! ^^
Thanks! ^^
~Nigel
Not all messages are imported
I have tried following the tutorial to transfer messages from an OE6/WinME laptop to my new WinMail/Vista.
The Import procedure appears to come to a normal conclusion, and all the expected folders are created under Imported Folder, but many (about half?) of the messages are missing. Some folders are completely empty, some contain only old messages, some only new ones...
Since I had difficulty getting the machines to see each other, I transferred the folder containing the .dbx files via an external drive, but moved it to a public folder on the Vista C:\ to run the import from.
There are about 15 folders, total size 111 MB.
Not sure if this is expected, but after the above attempt, when I reopen WinMail in non-administrator mode, neither the (successfully) imported accounts, nor the new folders do not appear.
Another worrying aspect is that when starting up WinMail as administrator, the dialogue says that it comes from an unknown publisher - is Microsoft trying to deny its responsibility?
...more
Just to add a couple of things:
I had a look at the .eml files, and can confirm that the missing messages really are missing.
Also, watching the progress messages during the import, I could see that the message count was skipping to the end of some of the folders, which also confirms that the .dbx files do seem to contain all the messages.
Also tried with the .dbx files set to All Modify (although the permissions don't seem to work correctly on other applications) - it runs much faster than when ReadOnly, but the end result is the same.
Another question arises:
Since I have run WinMail as an administrator, the message files have been placed in the admin user's space.
This no doubt explains why the ordinary user cannot see them, but the object of the exercise was to make the messages available for the ordinary user.
How can I do that? Should they have been copied over at the end of the import?
My intention is to do the same for each of three ordinary users, and to enable different eMail accounts for each, so that each ordinary user has a 'private' (though not secure) mail client. Unfortunately, the export and import cannot be done selectively, so I'll have a bit of deleting to do once the migrations have been completed.
I'm getting desperate to solve these problems - the old WinME is rapidly fading...
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