Issue with Importing Outlook Express 6 to Vista's Windows Mail?

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Guest

Issue with Importing Outlook Express 6 to Vista's Windows Mail?

I've got a load of .dbx files which Vista's Windows Mail just seems to not
recognise when I try to import. When I try to load new Identities it says all
have been found (I left the Outlook Express 6 files in the correct folder,
under local settings\Application Data\Identities\xxxxx\Microsoft\Outlook
Express).

xxxx being the hash

Do you know how to fix. My previous PC had no password set for the
Administrator so I shouldn't need a username & password (which I am not being
prompted for anyway).



Can you help?
 
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Guest

age-of-empires said:
Issue with Importing Outlook Express 6 to Vista's Windows Mail?

I've got a load of .dbx files which Vista's Windows Mail just seems to not
recognise when I try to import. When I try to load new Identities it says all
have been found (I left the Outlook Express 6 files in the correct folder,
under local settings\Application Data\Identities\xxxxx\Microsoft\Outlook
Express).

xxxx being the hash

Do you know how to fix. My previous PC had no password set for the
Administrator so I shouldn't need a username & password (which I am not being
prompted for anyway).



Can you help?




So far I haven't had any sucess getting WinMail to recognize .dbx files off
back-up files either. Very frustrating.
 
M

molitar

actually after you select the directory look at what the path is.. it will
be wrong.. it will read

\local settings\Application Data\Identities\xxxxx\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\Outlook Express

note the last folder is duplicated.. quite the bug aye.. I found if I than
went back and selected the folder than backed out of the folder and clicked
ok I than had the proper path and what do you know.. the import worked.

Marvin
 
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Guest

I've been tearing my hair out (what's left) spending hours trying to import
this Outlook Express 6 mail from my old Win 98 machine. I've been following
everyone's advice to no avail. I tried copying the folders to Documents
folder, and then creating a temporary directory:

C:\tmp3\IDENTITIES\_DD478780_13F7_11D5_B56F_E0F55\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK_EXPRESS

Nothing works. Microsoft Mail fails with that same dreaded message. One
thing I did notice is while the .dbx files are not read only, all the folders
are marked that way. And no matter how many times I uncheck and apply (...
and to all subfolders too), it keeps rechecking them as read only. It almost
appears like something has these "locked"

Any ideas?
 
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Tanja [MSFT]

Mark - this is the only message in this thread that I have, so can you fill
me in on exactly what steps you've taken?

I'm assuming you're importing trying to import your OE6 mail to WM on a new
Vista machine, correct?

thanks!
--tanja
 
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Guest

Tanja, the message that I get is:

"No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running
that has the required files open. Please select another folder or try>
closing applications that may have files open."

I copied all the .dbx files from my Win98 (Outlook Express 6.0) to a CD, and
copied that CD to my Vista machine. I tried copying the directory to
Documents and also to a temporary directory. Here I copied the entire
Identities folder over:

C:\tmp3\IDENTITIES\_DD478780_13F7_11D5_B56F_E0F55\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK_EXPRESS

Then in Windows Mail, I go to File/Import/Messages/Microsoft Outlook Express
6/Import Mail from OE6 Store Directory/...

then Browse down (and I ensure there is no "duplication" in the path from
that Vista bug).

No matter what I do I get the same message. I even tried importing it
without success into Microsoft Office Outlook (trial) without success).

It's like something could be locking up the files. I did notice that the
files are NOT read only, but the directory folders ARE read only - and no
matter how many times I go into a folder and uncheck read only (and Apply),
it immediately reverts to read only.
 
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Bill Pomeroy

I am guessing the problem is that since you copied to CD all the files are
marked as read only. I think that if you copied them from cd to hd and then
changed all the file attributes that you will be able to import them
successfully. They cannot be marked read only if you want to import them
into WM.
Hope this helps
BillP
 
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Guest

Bill, I went in and reset these to remove the read-only attribute. Still, no
luck. Then I noticed that all of the folders where Read Only, and whenever I
removed it, when I went in it was reset.

Finally, I decided to copy all the .dbx files directly to the Desktop (so I
could see them individually on the desktop), and I was then able to import my
Inbox, but not Sent or other folders. They got errors. Then I created a
new folder on the old box, copied the sent mail to it, copied it over to my
Vista desktop, and was able to import it. Little by little I'll move the
other folders.
 
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

Mark B. said:
I've been tearing my hair out (what's left) spending hours trying to
import
this Outlook Express 6 mail from my old Win 98 machine. I've been
following
everyone's advice to no avail. I tried copying the folders to Documents
folder, and then creating a temporary directory:

C:\tmp3\IDENTITIES\_DD478780_13F7_11D5_B56F_E0F55\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK_EXPRESS

Nothing works. Microsoft Mail fails with that same dreaded message. One
thing I did notice is while the .dbx files are not read only, all the
folders
are marked that way. And no matter how many times I uncheck and apply
(...
and to all subfolders too), it keeps rechecking them as read only. It
almost
appears like something has these "locked"

Any ideas?

Open your Documents folder and create a new folder there. Copy all of the
DBX files, including Folders.dbx, and make sure they are not Read Only.
Then try WinMail's File | Import | Messages.
 
S

Steve Cochran

Go to Tools | Options | Read and uncheck the option to download xxx headers
at a time and then reset the newsgroup and you should then see all the
messages.

I assume the problem is the same in WLMd as it is in OE and WM.

steve
 
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tylanad

I can't thank you enough for the Info.
Vista seems to add that extra folder a lot, what a pain.
I had seen that issue and tried it but it didn't work so hadn't gone back to
it.
It totally works.
 

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