"TheJoat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After struggling with Vista these last few month, I've also opted to go
> back to XP.
>
> I'm trying to find a way to save all of my mail. I'm currently using
> Windows Mail, and my first thought was to export all of my mail in
> "Microsoft Exchange" format. Then, when I install XP, I could Import it
> into Outlook Express.
>
> Two problems have arisen:
> 1. In Vista, I attempt to export into Microsoft Exchange Format. I get
> a message that says "The export could not be performed. An error
> occurred while initializing MAPI."
> 2. On my test XP system, when I try to import Microsoft Exchange format
> I get a message that says "Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI
> client. No profiles are configured on this computer."
See my reply to another post to yours. Oh, heck; here it is:
You're making this too complicated.
WinMail keeps its messages in
C:\Users\[UserNsame]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders
You will see that there is a subfolder for each of the folders in WinMail.
The messages are stored in these subfolders as individual EML files.
Copy all of the folders to a convenient place in the machine that has OE.
Then you can drag all of these EML files into whatever folder you want in
OE. Once they are in OE they will lose the cryptic title and show up with
the proper subject..
Once again, even though you saved the EML files in their folders, you just
did that for convenience. The EML files are what you will actually drag
into OE.
--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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