Importing from XP Outlook to Vista WinMail

[ark6154]

How do I get my emails from XP Outlook to Vista WinMail? I thought I had
backed up my emails in both Vista and Outlook, but when I try to import them
it says that the folders are empty, which they are not. The Outlook folders
have files with .DBX extensions and the Vista folder has files with numbered
files. Can't I somehow just copy these files into the Vista mail store?

Any help would be great, Thanks

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Your best resource is the Windows Easy Transfer app in system tools. A
'settings only' import would get the mail. You have to be able to start the
old system, however.
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[ark6154]

In what folder in Vista Home Premium are the mail messages stored?

 

[Gordon]

How do I get my emails from XP Outlook to Vista WinMail? I thought I had
backed up my emails in both Vista and Outlook, but when I try to import
them
it says that the folders are empty, which they are not. The Outlook
folders
have files with .DBX extensions

Then you had Outlook EXPRESS not Outlook. (Fortunately the advent of Windows
Mail is starting to reduce the confusion between the two!)

and the Vista folder has files with numbered

files. Can't I somehow just copy these files into the Vista mail store?

Any help would be great, Thanks

I suspect that when you copied the dbx files you failed to copy the file
called Folders.dbx. Without that file, Windows Mail will not see the dbx
files as an OE message store. Do you still have access to the XP machine?
If so, then copy ALL the dbx files, and put them in a folder to which you
have full read/write permissions on the Vista Machine. Creating a new folder
for the purpose in your Documents folder would seem to be the ideal place.
Then in WM do File-Import and navigate to the folder you created.

HTH

 

[Steve Cochran]

See the section on WinMail here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm Follow the
instructions exactly or it won't work.

steve