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Hello Md69,
I'm sorry to hear that your folder structure was not maintained. When I did that my structure was maintained. I don't have any idea why it did not work for you. Good Luck
Hello Md69,
I'm sorry to hear that your folder structure was not maintained. When I did that my structure was maintained. I don't have any idea why it did not work for you. Good Luck
I got it to work with the subfolders now. The first time I chose to import "Windows Mail" format and the subfolder structure was gone. I tried again and chose "Windows Live Mail" format and they are all there now. Thanks again.
Well done. Pleased to hear you managed to sort things out.
Thanks for posting back as your solution may well help somebody along the line.
Massive thanks to dguy777.
I worked through his notes and they worked fine. I realised that we have customers who may struggle with this so made a stepby step guide on our site. Is this useful?
Outlook to live mail _ outlook to Windows 7 _ get pst file into windows live mail
My situation is a little different....is there help for me?
I put Windows7, Home Premium, 64bit on a new hard drive. I.installed Windows Live.
My old hard drive with Outlook Express is still connected to computer. I can access it by clicking "Computer" and selecting that hard drive. However, I can't run the programs, including Outlook Express. How do I import messages and addresses from Outlook Express to Windows Live?
I managed to find an Import button on Windows Live (although I can't even find that button now), & clicked "Import from Outlook Express." It asked me where to find it. I directed it to my old hard drive but it wouldn't accept that. I also tried old hard drive/documents & settings/my profile name/desktop....nothing worked.
Does anyone know what I should do? Is there any hope for me? I would deeply appreciate your help?
I changed from OE to Windows live several years ago, but don't remember exactly how I got my email transferred. I quickly gave up on Window Live and changed to Thunderbird.
But--memory tells me that OE email is stored in folders with a DBX extension. So you should go to your old hard drive and do a search for all files with a DBX extension. That will at least tell you where your old mail is.
Then maybe you can do the import directly from Windows Live?
I'm not a computer expert (obviously) and feel a little embarrassed to ask, but what is Thunderbird?
Thunderbird is a free email program developed by Mozilla. Anyone can download it and use it.
It can be made to look very much like Outlook Express. That's why I was attracted to it. I can't really recall why I gave up on Windows Live, but I did not like it.
You can get Thunderbird here:
Mozilla Thunderbird
I did a search and found it. Is it similar to Outlook Express?
We posted at the same time....never mind this question....you already answered it.
Thanks much ~
Does Thunderbird import from Outlook Express without problems?