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Kathy
Hi....I just moved my OE5.5 files from ME to XP today....
Hopefully this will work for you....but try going to:
insideoe.tomsterdam.com and read a lot first...things may
be different for your system!
What I did:
1) On your old system: create a folder, eg: MarionMail.
2) Old system: In OE, export the address book
(File/Export/Addresses). Give it a filename within the
folder you created.
3) Old system: Find where your .dbx files are (if you
don't know, do a search) and copy everything in that
folder to the new folder
4) At this point, I guess you'd copy to CD....I had
another disk.
5) On XP: Go into OE and create your identity.
6) On XP: Select Tools/options/Maintenance and click the
Store button. You can see where your messages are kept
or change it to a folder you want your mail to be in.
Go out of OE all the way and then come back in.
7) Import the address book from CD
(File/Import/address/other address book -- I'm assuming
98 will make a file with commas as ME did; if not, find
the right type in the list)
8) On XP: Copy the .dbx files from CD to the store
location
NOTE: (from the insideoe website:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/clone.htm)But I
didn't have to do this.
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Read-only Backup Files
If you backup your OE data folder to a CDROM, all the
files will be marked as read-only. When you restore those
files to your hard disk, you must reset this attribute
for all OE files or OE will not be able to use them.
Right-click on each file, click Properties and uncheck
the Read-only box. You can change all or several at a
time by selecting (highlighting) them first (Edit |
Select All), then right-click on any of the selected
files. Alternatively you can open a command prompt at the
data folder and simply type
attrib *.* -r
to change all the files at once.
******************
That's pretty much it....I hope that helps....it won't
bring any rules over though...just address book and
emails.
Hopefully this will work for you....but try going to:
insideoe.tomsterdam.com and read a lot first...things may
be different for your system!
What I did:
1) On your old system: create a folder, eg: MarionMail.
2) Old system: In OE, export the address book
(File/Export/Addresses). Give it a filename within the
folder you created.
3) Old system: Find where your .dbx files are (if you
don't know, do a search) and copy everything in that
folder to the new folder
4) At this point, I guess you'd copy to CD....I had
another disk.
5) On XP: Go into OE and create your identity.
6) On XP: Select Tools/options/Maintenance and click the
Store button. You can see where your messages are kept
or change it to a folder you want your mail to be in.
Go out of OE all the way and then come back in.
7) Import the address book from CD
(File/Import/address/other address book -- I'm assuming
98 will make a file with commas as ME did; if not, find
the right type in the list)
8) On XP: Copy the .dbx files from CD to the store
location
NOTE: (from the insideoe website:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/clone.htm)But I
didn't have to do this.
**************
Read-only Backup Files
If you backup your OE data folder to a CDROM, all the
files will be marked as read-only. When you restore those
files to your hard disk, you must reset this attribute
for all OE files or OE will not be able to use them.
Right-click on each file, click Properties and uncheck
the Read-only box. You can change all or several at a
time by selecting (highlighting) them first (Edit |
Select All), then right-click on any of the selected
files. Alternatively you can open a command prompt at the
data folder and simply type
attrib *.* -r
to change all the files at once.
******************
That's pretty much it....I hope that helps....it won't
bring any rules over though...just address book and
emails.
