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Make any sense? 1st time in discussion group. Trust this is appropriate.
When I purchased my new Toshiba it came with the whizbang new Vista Home
Basic OS. I'm somewhat limited in my IT 'transfer' knowledge and attempted
to transfer all my files over. I was reasonably successful.....until I hit
my Outlook Express email files. I had a local roving IT specialist come in
and clean things up but he determined that Vista/Mail didn't read OE so a
direct transfer wasn't possible (so he told me). To allow me to move with my
laptop and anticipating being able to work on it in the future, I actually
established another user on Vista and have transferred all the info I want to
ultimately transfer to my main user to the secondary user.....clear as muddy
water?
When I open Vista, I have two users available but only use the one. I want
to get rid of the other but need to transfer the OE files. I've today tried
the following: I exported the Contact files (save as '.pst') to a zipped
folder and attached it as an email to myself. I sent the email, cleared out
of the secondary user and received said email, including attachment, in Mail
on the primary user site. When I try to open and/or import these .pst files,
I'm told this is a dangerous action. Can I actually enable this 'open file'
and import the files as it's actually from the same computer and this
'attention: Danger' warning seems to be 'virus-carrying email' driven?
Thanks for taking the time to read through the above and look forward to any
assistance that's available.
When I purchased my new Toshiba it came with the whizbang new Vista Home
Basic OS. I'm somewhat limited in my IT 'transfer' knowledge and attempted
to transfer all my files over. I was reasonably successful.....until I hit
my Outlook Express email files. I had a local roving IT specialist come in
and clean things up but he determined that Vista/Mail didn't read OE so a
direct transfer wasn't possible (so he told me). To allow me to move with my
laptop and anticipating being able to work on it in the future, I actually
established another user on Vista and have transferred all the info I want to
ultimately transfer to my main user to the secondary user.....clear as muddy
water?
When I open Vista, I have two users available but only use the one. I want
to get rid of the other but need to transfer the OE files. I've today tried
the following: I exported the Contact files (save as '.pst') to a zipped
folder and attached it as an email to myself. I sent the email, cleared out
of the secondary user and received said email, including attachment, in Mail
on the primary user site. When I try to open and/or import these .pst files,
I'm told this is a dangerous action. Can I actually enable this 'open file'
and import the files as it's actually from the same computer and this
'attention: Danger' warning seems to be 'virus-carrying email' driven?
Thanks for taking the time to read through the above and look forward to any
assistance that's available.