transfer of inbox email (microsoft office outlook )to new machine

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Hi! Just bought a new machine, And I want to transfer all my email to my
new machine. I run files and setting transfer wizzards but only my documents
and setting are transfered to my new machine but NOT my emails. Any idea how
I can transfer all my inbox email, and contacts to my new machine? thanks a
lot ...
 
bing said:
Hi! Just bought a new machine, And I want to transfer all my
email to my new machine. I run files and setting transfer wizzards
but only my documents and setting are transfered to my new machine
but NOT my emails. Any idea how I can transfer all my inbox email,
and contacts to my new machine? thanks a lot ...
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Open outlook on the old machine..
File --> Import and Export.. I suggest exporting to a PST and importing
from that PST on the new machine.
 
Assuming you are dealing with Outlook Express, you can copy your
AddressBook:

C:\Documents and Settings\[Your UserName]\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book\*.wab file

and your Outlook Express Mail folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\[Your UserName]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\CLSID\Microsoft\Outlook Express

where CLSID formatted like (example):

{7DB8A319-DE3B-4BB3-96EE-4E96F691D590}

In this folder is ALL of your outlook mail and folders.

Did you have any Message Rules? You can also export those from the registry
and import into you new configuration:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\CLSID\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Rules

where CLSID is the same as the one found in the folder above.
 
bing said:
Hi! Just bought a new machine, And I want to transfer all my
email to my new machine. I run files and setting transfer wizzards
but only my documents and setting are transfered to my new machine
but NOT my emails. Any idea how I can transfer all my inbox email,
and contacts to my new machine? thanks a lot ...
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Shenan said:
Open outlook on the old machine..
File --> Import and Export.. I suggest exporting to a PST and
importing from that PST on the new machine.
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Bad idea, often leads to a corrupt pst, simply copy
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
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How do you figure using File --> Import and Export and exporting to a PST
file.. Then copying it to the other machine and importing it using the same
(but reverse) method causes corruption?

Especially when the steps are laid out on the page you gave? heh

The only difference is they give you the different scenarios - one of which
is your mail is already in PST format. Then it is a matter of copying said
file.

Done this a lot myself - especially when people leave their jobs and they
need their email.. Export to PST --> Burn to DVD --> Mail to them with
instructions about copying, changing read only if needed and so on.
 
Shenan Stanley said:
How do you figure using File --> Import and Export and exporting to a PST
file.. Then copying it to the other machine and importing it using the
same (but reverse) method causes corruption?
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Ask all the Outlook MVPs - they'll tell you exactly the same


Especially when the steps are laid out on the page you gave? heh

The only difference is they give you the different scenarios - one of
which is your mail is already in PST format. Then it is a matter of
copying said file.
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The Export function in Outlook is designed primarily to export data to a
third party application such as Excel or Access........not to move Outlook
data from one instance of Outlook to another......

Done this a lot myself - especially when people leave their jobs and they
need their email.. Export to PST --> Burn to DVD --> Mail to them with
instructions about copying, changing read only if needed and so on.
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You've been lucky then........
 
All seems over-complicated to me - this exporting/it'll all lead to
tears, etc stuff.

For Outlook, I just copy the .pst file onto a cd/dvd and the copy it
onto the new PC/hard disk (onto root of c:, usually) and then import it
into Outlook.
Works every time - never had problem.

Robin
 
Enigmatic Thinker said:
All seems over-complicated to me - this exporting/it'll all lead to
tears, etc stuff.

For Outlook, I just copy the .pst file onto a cd/dvd and the copy it
onto the new PC/hard disk (onto root of c:, usually) and then import it
into Outlook.
Works every time - never had problem.

Robin
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But you will eventually, if you use the IMPORT function. In Outlook, just go
to File-Open-Outlook data File , and open the file you copied to your HDD.
You can then either drag the data from one file to the other, or just set
the old file as the default delivery location.
 
Gordon said:
But you will eventually, if you use the IMPORT function. In
Outlook, just go to File-Open-Outlook data File , and open the file
you copied to your HDD. You can then either drag the data from one
file to the other, or just set the old file as the default delivery
location.
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And if you use exchange and your email is stored on exchange?
 
Shenan Stanley wrote
Gordon said:
But you will eventually, if you use the IMPORT function. In
Outlook, just go to File-Open-Outlook data File , and open the
file you copied to your HDD. You can then either drag the data
from one file to the other, or just set the old file as the
default delivery location.
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And if you use exchange and your email is stored on exchange?
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Well it wouldnt be a pst then
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It would be when you exported it.
EXMERGE or Outlook Export
=)
 
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