Import Message Nightmare

[wkerby]

Last week bought two HP laptops for the wife and me. Migrated to mine easily
by home network using "Easy"Transfer. For wife's computer not "Easy." We
got her pictures and docs onto new HD, but email messages - very, very
important - a no go. I have been trying to manually do this and have used
every tip in this forum to no avail. Windows Mail will not find or accept
any of the messages or folders. Vista sees all the .dbx files fine and I was
able to import the address book, but as soon as I come to point in the wizard
where messages are to be imported they "cannot be found." I have tweaked all
permissions, etc. I have used Ted (?)'s technique of finding the folder in
the right window, etc but WM will not look at the files!!! I'm at the end of
my rope. It was a piece of cake with my nearly identical computer.
Incidentally, both old computers are similar generation Toshiba LT's running
XP.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Last week bought two HP laptops for the wife and me. Migrated to mine
easily
by home network using "Easy"Transfer. For wife's computer not "Easy." We
got her pictures and docs onto new HD, but email messages - very, very
important - a no go. I have been trying to manually do this and have used
every tip in this forum to no avail. Windows Mail will not find or accept
any of the messages or folders. Vista sees all the .dbx files fine and I
was
able to import the address book, but as soon as I come to point in the
wizard
where messages are to be imported they "cannot be found." I have tweaked
all
permissions, etc. I have used Ted (?)'s technique of finding the folder
in
the right window, etc but WM will not look at the files!!! I'm at the end
of
my rope. It was a piece of cake with my nearly identical computer.
Incidentally, both old computers are similar generation Toshiba LT's
running
XP.

Are you pointing to the folder that holds the DBX files? Don't point to the
DBX files themselves. Also, watch the path WinMail is using, it tends to
get that wrong. See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm

 

[Willie]

Set up your outlook account on new computer and then resend all emails from
old computer and recieve in new computer. This worked for me before easy
transfer was available.

 

[wkerby]

Set up your outlook account on new computer and then resend all emails from
old computer and recieve in new computer. This worked for me before easy
transfer was available.

This is a good idea and one I was about to use as a last resort, but the old
computer lost connectivity in the middle of my attempts. It was a dying
machine.

 

[wkerby]

Are you pointing to the folder that holds the DBX files? Don't point to the
DBX files themselves. Also, watch the path WinMail is using, it tends to
get that wrong. See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm

 

[wkerby]

This is a good idea and one I was about to use as a last resort, but the old
computer lost connectivity in the middle of my attempts. It was a dying
machine.

Thanks for the advice. I did finally succeed mainly by fighting my
intuition. I could not replicate exactly what I did, so I'm not sure whom to
thank.
wk

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

As far as my light shines, I am indeed doing that. "Easy Transfer" had as
much trouble with this as I'm having, so I suspect other issues. However, I
have never in my 20 years of dealing with computers faced anything like
Vista. I'm new to this strange world, where the conventions are
unconventional to be polite.