Hi Stephanie,
Hi Hal,
Unless I'm mistaken, the directions Hal refers to would only work for
moving email, contacts, etc from an old copy of Outlook on the old
machine to a copy of Outlook installed on the new machine.They would not
work (neither as far as I could tell would any of the replies above) for
moving email, contacts, etc, from Outlook into Windows Mail (the built
in, and very nice, email program in Vista that replaces Outlook
Express.)
Windows Mail will very nicely import mail and contacts , etc,
But, IIRR Vista will not directly import from Outlook or even a raw
outlook .PST file (where Outlook keeps everything). It will import
directly from Outlook Express, which doesn't help Stephanie.
This is probably more-or-less intentional as it's likely that in
Microsoft's view going from the paid-for-Outlook (which is part of
Office) to the free Windows Mail would be a downgrade.
So what you have to do is go into the working, running, copy of the
older computer's Outlook and use its export function to export mail,
then contacts, into a format that Windows Mail CAN recognize and import
from.
Individual messages from Outlook (.msg) cannot be dragged and dropped
into WIndows Mail (or even Outlook Express on XP for that matter)
Whether you have your Outlook with it's data on the new computer or on
the old computer you'll have to use Outlook's export function (under
File) to separately export the old email and then the contacts to Comma
Separated Value (.CSV) format, and then tell Windows Mail to Import from
those files.
It's a bit covoluted but I have, IIRR, sucessfully done that at least
on one occassion.
As far as I remember there's no way to export the email account setting
out of Outlook to any form that Windows Mail can import, so you'll have
to set up the email accounts or accounts manually in Windows Mail.
As far as I know, although Windows Mail has a very nice
calendar/reminder system, comparable in function to the one in Microsoft
Outlook, there is no way to import info in the Outlook Calendar to the
WinMail Calendar.
So if you've got important appointments still pending in the old
Outlook, better print them out.
Alex
'Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I said:
;544534']1. Install Outlook on your new Vista machine.
2. With Outlook closed on the XP machine, make a copy of your Personal
Folders file.
3. Place this copy on your Vista machine in a folder where it will NOT
overwrite the .PST created when you installed Outlook.
4. Launch Outlook and connect it to the copied .PST file:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx
Reconnect your old Outlook data file
5. Launch Windows Mail and import using 'File|Import|Messages'.
Hal
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Stephanie Sorrels said:
Hi Just, I"m needing to transfer my old XP Outlook info over to WinMail -
can you help? Thanks
In need to transfer my old to my new WinMail?
