migrating email messages problems

[Jacki Powell]

Please help! I am trying to migrate outlook exress email
messages from a machine running Win. ME to a machine
running Win XP. I have found the email on the ME machine
(all files end in *.dbx) and saved it to zip disk. When
I try to import to the XP machine, it says no messages
found on the disk. Yet they are there. Therefore they
are not being recoginzed. Can anyone help? I used the
same process when I went from Win98 to WinME and it
worked fine. Is this something with Outlook express and
WinXP?
Thanks for any help
Jacki Powell

 

[PA Bear]

Copy the DBX files to the HDD of the WinXP machine (suggest a folder created
for this purpose on Desktop, for convenience). Remove the Read Only
attribute the files will have by default.

OE File>Import>OE6 [even if WinME was running OE5]>Store directory> point
the wizard to the folder on Desktop>...

Folders.dbx *must* be in the backup set for Import to work.

More at

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Fred Coppola]

I guess I should have searched more before I asked my
question. This post took care of it... Thanks Fred

-----Original Message-----
Copy the DBX files to the HDD of the WinXP machine (suggest a folder created
for this purpose on Desktop, for convenience). Remove the Read Only
attribute the files will have by default.

OE File>Import>OE6 [even if WinME was running OE5]>Store directory> point
the wizard to the folder on Desktop>...

Folders.dbx *must* be in the backup set for Import to work.

More at

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5
--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inet explorer.ie6_outlookexpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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