importing email folders into OE6

[Kent Willie]

I've been running OE6 on my laptop and recently moved to a
new location with a new broadband ISP. They set up OE6 on
my new desktop. I've been unsuccessful in importing my
email folders from my laptop into my desktop OE6. I do
the following:

1) copy the identity name and as many email message
folders as my diskette will hold from laptop to desktop:
Document and Settings>Administrator>Local
Settings>Application Data>Identities i.e. 06BB0435-E751-
48D4-9CE8-F206A1 is the name of the new identity

2) from desktop I add the new identity:
File>Identities>New Identity>

3) then from the OE6 Main Identity Inbox I do:
File>Import>Messages>Microsoft Outlook Express 6>Import
mail from an OE6 Identity "alphanumeric number">Browse to
the directory in step 1, and highlight the new identity

After this I get the following error message:

"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 the
applications that may have files open"

4) if I switch to the new identity it doesn't show the
imported email folders from the laptop only the default
Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, and Drafts
folders.

5) How do add my laptop folders into the existing Main
Identity?

Thanks for any help,

-Kent

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi - you will probably get a faster and more expert answer if you post this
to an Outlook Express news group.

Try posting in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac for OE for Macintosh

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/