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Live Mail imports only partially from OE .dbx file
Hi all,
I'm migrating my PC to Windows 7. All is pretty much good, and I installed Windows Live Essentials, mainly so I could use Windows Live Mail client, as a replacement for Outlook Express 6. When I opened it it tried importing from Outlook Express but apparently had some problem - I got an error "Unable to import information from Microsoft Outlook Express 6". Sure of all my mailboxes most were populated but a few were not - including my main Inbox, which was empty.
I then tried doing a manual import using "Import messages", and selecting the Inbox.dbx file. It finds 7001 emails, and begins the import. However it only gets up to about 3,600 or so before it just finishes (progress bar gets halfway through). It says "Import Complete" and "Your messages were imported in 'Microsoft Outlook Express 6' format", and gives no indication of having encountered an error - however the other 3,500 or so emails were just not imported.
When opening the folder the messages were imported into - only emails before April 2010 are there. Everything for the past 9 months is not there.
The kicker is - other programs can get the emails from the .dbx file no problem. I downloaded Mail Navigator, and it was able to read all 7001 emails.
Anyone know of how I can fix or workaround this problem?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Part of the reason I migrated to Windows 7 is because I was having corruption problems on XP. It's a long story, but summary is that I was never able to find the root cause of the corruption. It may well be that the files are corrupted in some way - however the corruption isn't obvious. It wasn't found by chkdsk (when I ran it back on XP), and it's not encountered explicitly by the Windows Live Mail import, and if there is corruption Mail Navigator doesn't have any problem with it.
Back when I ran Windows Easy Transfer to transfer some files to my PC - it did find problems with a few files; however none of the files it found problems with were Outlook Express files.