Getting only partial transfer from OE to Mail

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I copied all my Outlook Express dbx files from my old WinXP computer to my
new Vista computer and used Import Messages in Mail to transfer my old
emails. The problem is that Mail will not transfer all messages and the
number of messages it will transfer seems random. For example, I have 119
messages in my old Inbox dbx file. Mail will start to import them but will
quietly stop at 92 and leave the impression that everything went smoothly.
Yesterday it was 39. No error messages or warnings of any kind. Numbers vary
for other mail folders, 13 out of 99 for one, 70 out of 286 for another. Yet,
some folders containing anywhere from 5 to 201 messages transfer completely.
Any ideas? Thanks to all.
 
D. Leger said:
I copied all my Outlook Express dbx files from my old WinXP computer to my
new Vista computer and used Import Messages in Mail to transfer my old
emails. The problem is that Mail will not transfer all messages and the
number of messages it will transfer seems random. For example, I have 119
messages in my old Inbox dbx file. Mail will start to import them but will
quietly stop at 92 and leave the impression that everything went smoothly.
Yesterday it was 39. No error messages or warnings of any kind. Numbers
vary
for other mail folders, 13 out of 99 for one, 70 out of 286 for another.
Yet,
some folders containing anywhere from 5 to 201 messages transfer
completely.
Any ideas? Thanks to all.
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Did you make sure the copies of the .dbx files are read-write, not readonly,
before importing them? Importing readonly files often has problems.
 
I've heard that sometimes the OE .dbx files get corrupted. Perhaps there's
a way to repair them on the XP computer, then copy over again?
 
Had to do it the hard way. On my XP computer, I created multiple folders in
Outlook Express and split my Inbox messages about 20 messages into each.
Compacted the whole mess, exited OE and copied the dbx files to a USB drive.
Imported each folder into Vista Mail and combined everything back together.
What a pain. Thanks Microsoft.

By the way, I also tried Easy Transfer but it refused to run on my XP
machine saying it didn't recognize the language or something like that.
Strange because I use US English on both machines.
 
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