need avice on importing a pst file into vista's email app

[bratboy]

I was using an older version of office and created an archive of emails from
outlook before I upgraded to a new vista system that has Office 2007 student.
Anyway since the student version doesnt have regular outlook how can I
open/import the pst files emails into Vista's email program?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You can't. Only Outlook can access PST files. Once Outlook is installed you
can import from Outlook into Windows Mail.

 

[DL]

You require Outlook to do that, or pay / find some one to convert your data
files to a format Mail can Import

You can of course download the Office 2007 trial and connect your old data
files to outlook then import to Mail

 

[bratboy]

humm, well I do have a usb housing I can put my old drive in but where would
I look for outlooks mail folder. I origonally made a copy of the folder
located at "C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Local
Settings\Application Data\Identities\{your Windows user identity
number}\Microsoft\Outlook Express." but forgot that outlook might use a
different file location (silly me)

 

[bratboy]

I guess I could dl the trial but Im worried about messing up my registered
copy of office student. Is there a trial dl of only the outlook part or how
would I safely dl thetrial without messing up my registered copy of office

 

[bratboy]

Okay, I actually still have an xp system I havent upgraded yet so think I
can install the trial on it but then what format would I want to export the
emails to a shared folder as so that I can import the emails into the vista
systems mail program?

 

[Gordon]

Okay, I actually still have an xp system I havent upgraded yet so think I
can install the trial on it but then what format would I want to export
the
emails to a shared folder as so that I can import the emails into the
vista
systems mail program?
"DL" wrote:

If doing this on the XP machine you don't want to EXPORT at all. Open
Outlook EXPRESS and import your mail there.
Then do this:

Copy ALL the mail files from OE (including the one called Folders.dbx) and
paste them into a folder you have created on your new machine, to which you
have read/write permissions. A folder within your Documents folder would
seem to be the best place.
Then in Windows Mail, do File-Import-Messages, highlight Microsoft Outlook
Express, and click next.
Make sure that "Import from an OE6 Store directory is checked, (that's why
you need to copy the folders.dbx file, because that tells WM the folder is
an OE message store) and click on OK. Browse to the folder you created.

 

[DL]

If you still have the xp system do you not have outlook on that?
If you do export the msgs to outlook express & Contacts to the windows
address book
You copy the OE msg store & windows address book to a location Vista can
access then import in Mail

 

[Gordon]

If you still have the xp system do you not have outlook on that?
If you do export the msgs to outlook express

Outlook can't export to OE - the messages have to be imported from within
OE....

 

[bratboy]

It was my roomates system that had & used Outlook, My xp system only has OE
on it. Thought maybe I could use it and import the files into a new mb on my
OE and then copy the folder from my store directory to a shared folder but
when I go into OE and select Import/messages/Microsoft Outlook I get an error
mssg that says "Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI client. an error
has occurred" Grr

 

[Gordon]

It was my roomates system that had & used Outlook, My xp system only has
OE
on it. Thought maybe I could use it and import the files into a new mb on
my
OE and then copy the folder from my store directory to a shared folder but
when I go into OE and select Import/messages/Microsoft Outlook I get an
error
mssg that says "Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI client. an error
has occurred" Grr

That's because Outlook isn't installed. The answer may be to download and
install the trial version of Office just for this one operation...