Emails with Vista

[Ian Southall]

Having used XP and Outlook Express for some years, I had built up a huge
number of email addresses all stored conveniently in folders in Outlook
Express. I recently upgraded to Vista Home premium and managed to import all
the addresses into Windows Mail. However, I now have hundreds of addresses
but no folders! Is it possible to transfer the folders from XP to Vista with
the email addresses inside?

 

[Marc]

Having used XP and Outlook Express for some years, I had built up a huge
number of email addresses all stored conveniently in folders in Outlook
Express. I recently upgraded to Vista Home premium and managed to import
all the addresses into Windows Mail. However, I now have hundreds of
addresses but no folders! Is it possible to transfer the folders from XP
to Vista with the email addresses inside?

This may be of help:
http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide/79/how-to-transfer-your-data-from-xp-to-vista

If you don't have the Vista disc, then you can download it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=2b6f1631-973a-45c7-a4ec-4928fa173266

Marc

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Having used XP and Outlook Express for some years, I had built up a huge
number of email addresses all stored conveniently in folders in Outlook
Express. I recently upgraded to Vista Home premium and managed to import
all the addresses into Windows Mail. However, I now have hundreds of
addresses but no folders! Is it possible to transfer the folders from XP
to Vista with the email addresses inside?

To be clear, Outlook Express doesn't store addresses at all. It uses
Windows Address Book for this.

Now, I happen to have an address book with about a thousand names in it,
and I regularly send emails to specific addresses based on a given project.
I used folders, and discovered that when the Windows Address book is
exported, and imported to another system, it loses the folders. If you
simply copy the address book file and import it, the same thing happens.

It does, however, keep *groups*. After having this happen more than
twice, I stopped using folders and started using groups exclusively.
When I imported that address book into Windows Live Mail on Vista, (I don't
like Windows Mail enough to have that account in it) it kept all the groups.

The point is that this doesn't appear to be a problem with Vista or Windows
Mail. Windows Address Book will do this to itself, too.

Sorry, I don't have a fix.

HTH
-pk

 

[oscar]

You might want to go over to windows.vista.mail forum/newsgroup for this
one.