Copying E-mails and addresse from outlook express on xp

[Lanthus20]

How would I copy e-mails (the actual e-mail file itself) from outlook express on xp over to windows 7 (windows live mail). Also I need to do the same for addresses.

Heres my problem, I have just installed windows seven and had used xp before that. Id always use outlook express for e-mails, along with all the other users. Now I have a user who wants all their e-mails that they've kept (because they liked them), and all there adresses sent to windows 7 in windows live mail. How can I do this?

I have the address book exported and saved on a flash drive, where are the e-mail files kept?

Neverming stupid question.. I can always forward them to myself

 

[eli2k]

But forwarding them will make all emails be sent from you. When I did OE > OE transfer on XP, I used this program, which did the transfer pretty well Genie-Soft - Products - Backup Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail It is compatible with Windows Mail (not Live Mail, but the Mail client), but I don't know if it does OE > Mail or not.

 

[Ciera]

drag the messages from outlook express to a temporary folder like your desktop or flash drive; that will create an .eml document file for each email. i know you can drag them back to oe or ms outlook on a new computer. haven't tried it with windows live mail. if drag/drop doesn't work, try importing the .eml files.

 

[Jonmor68]

If you still have XP, you can download the free Incredimail e-mail client and install it on XP.
Import your mail and contacts to Incredimail, then export them to a flash drive or another location.
Then install Incredimail in Windows 7 and import the files back to Incredimail.
You not only save your data but you now have an e-mail client to use in W7 instead of using Windows Live Mail.
There are no doubt others out there that can do the same, but I know this one works in W7.

 

[Delphin]

How would I copy e-mails (the actual e-mail file itself) from outlook express on xp over to windows 7 (windows live mail). Also I need to do the same for addresses.

Heres my problem, I have just installed windows seven and had used xp before that. Id always use outlook express for e-mails, along with all the other users. Now I have a user who wants all their e-mails that they've kept (because they liked them), and all there adresses sent to windows 7 in windows live mail. How can I do this?

I have the address book exported and saved on a flash drive, where are the e-mail files kept?

Neverming stupid question.. I can always forward them to myself

C:\Documents and Settings\account name\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{08C4EAC3-8F18-4CA3-9468-528CF99AB1F7}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

The above is the folder path where the outlook express files will be stored. There you will find seperate file for each folder on you outlook express.

Copy all the files inside the folder and the mail backup is now with u

 

[dexster]

^^ but those files are dbx files... which i can not seem to load into outlook 2007 ??

 

[mckillwashere]

Have you tried to use the import wizard?

 

[dexster]

where is the import wizard in outlook 2007 ?

last nite (before i gave up), i finally got the emails to outlook2007 (via windows mail) but it did not manage to get my settings

i will have another play around with outlook 2007 and see what i come up with

 

[andjayik]

is there a better email client then windows mail live? I was running 7 but hated live mail, i was so used to outlook express, then i put vista on and can live with windows mail. Does win 7 come with windows mail?

 

[zigzag3143]

hi

win 7 doesn't come with an e-mail client. the usual candidate is your and my favorite WLM, but ppl run thunderbird, a few run outlook express but I cant figure out how


sorry I cant be helpful

Ken

 

[andjayik]

i tried thunder bird but could'nt import anything?

 

[Vern]

Hi,
new to the Forum, this is only my second reply.

This reply might be a little late for Lanthus20 but may help others (?).

I did a fresh install of Win7 a couple of days ago.
My previous setup was XP-Pro on partition C; and Vista on partition D:.
I formated D: running in XP. Then reset Boot manager etc.
Using Windows Easy Transfer prog I saved all XP-Data etc onto an external 80GB hard drive (USB connected).
After clean install of Win7 onto partition D: iI again run Windows Easy Transfer, with the USB HDD connected and accessed from Win7. After 10 minutes or so (9GB of data) I had all my old settings and folders back.

Now, when I activated Windows Live Mail this morning I got a HUGE surprise!
My 5 email accounts were set up automatically, with the default account already activ!! All I had to do is to enter the passwords into the other 4 and all was live!
And after a few minutes of clunking, a total of just over 9,000 emails were back in the correct Folders (5 accounts 'deleted items' folders plus a couple of sub-folders).
WOW - well done Microsoft.
Vern

 

[Vern]

Oh - in case you ask - I had not done a cleanup of the emails for 6 months.
Vern