Solved How do I import/export emails from Outlook 2007 to Windows Live Mail?

[sophi]

Hello

I am having trouble trying to find the best way to do this.

On one laptop I am using Outlook 2007 on Windows XP Professional and need to get the emails and contacts from here to my new laptop which is Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, which uses Windows Live Mail.

What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks very much

Sophi

 

[Anak]

Hi sophi, welcome to 7F!

Have you already tried, what did you run into?


EDIT:

Found this link that offers two solutions: https://social.technet.microsoft.co...ontact-in-outlook-to-windows-live-mail-client

 

[sophi]

I am using this guide How do I move my Outlook Express email from Windows XP to Windows 7?

And have got up to this bit

"
Choose Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and click Next.
In the next dialog - "Location of Messages" - click the Browse... button and navigate to the folder that has your Outlook Express messages that we saved or located above. This can once again be on external media, or directly on your machine. Simply locate the folder containing the infamous ".dbx" files. Click Next, make sure "All folders" is selected in the resulting dialog, and click Next again. WLM imports your email, after which you can click Finish."




I have got as far as 'simply locating the folder containing the .dbx files' and have clicked NEXT....only to get an error (I have attached a print screen)




If you could help, I would be very grateful!

 

[Anak]

My apologies life intervened, my neighbor needed a hand.

I'm getting the impression that the files you want to move are on an XP machine, and you want to move your email to Live mail on a 7 machine, correct?

Are these two machines on a network?

Now about that message,
That message indicates that another program is open that uses those .dbx files and it looks like you have Outlook open in your screenshot.

Make sure all programs on the target machine that you want to import from are closed. Then try the import wizard in Live Mail again.

If you have both Outlook and live mail on one machine close all programs and only work with the live mail import wizard.

 

[sophi]

Yes that is all correct.

I have closed everything on my target machine and now only have windows live mail open on the machine using windows 7. Have just tried to do the same thing and the message has come up again - oh no!


Won't be able to reply until Tuesday - thank you for your help so far and I will pick it up again then!

 

[Anak]

Okay, there are known difficulties in this type of transfer, you may want to explore the solutions I posed in my earlier edit: https://social.technet.microsoft.co...ontact-in-outlook-to-windows-live-mail-client

Leo's copyright on that article is from 2010, and my link is from March of this year.

Time has a way of figuring things out.

The first "checked as answer" looks promising, I checked the download for malware with Malwarebytes and it came up clean.

Until Tuesday then.....

 

[A Guy]

The steps in this thread may also help

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...ail-outlook-windows-live-mail.html#post488302

MailStore Home

This program also claims to preserve folder structure

Outlook Freeware - Export Messages to EML Format

A Guy

 

[Anak]

That looks pretty good A Guy, it almost looks like the one I suggested in the link I posted above, but I can't tell if its from Mailstore or not because the poster has a 123dl.com address in the link.

123 seems to check out okay with google's safe browsing diagnostic page, but there's no link to get to 123's home page, so I would use your suggestion first. Thanks for the heads up!

Sophi, use A Guy's tip and install it on your old machine, Post #19: http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...il-outlook-windows-live-mail.html#post1181904 then follow the instructions.

 

[sophi]

Eeeek! We're almost there!

I have managed to transfer everything over that has been in folders.

I'm still struggling with doing just the inbox - is it something I need to do separately?

Many many many thank yous!

Sophi

 

[Anak]

Did you use the steps in my link or with A Guy's post? With the tutorial, MailStore or Outlook freeware?
It would help greatly if you could give us more details, we can guide you better if you let us know what you are using for the transfer.

If it was me, I would try to follow the prompts given during the steps. If either way allows multiple Folder moves, then try the transfer that way.

If either way only allows a single Folder transfer, then that is the way to go.

 

[sophi]

Thanks everyone - Anak, I had missed a prompt.

Very grateful for all of your help.

Have a great day!

Sophi

 

[Anak]

Your welcome Sophi.
I'm happy to hear you have it all sorted out, that is great news!

May you also have a wonderful day!

Steve

 

[A Guy]

Glad you got it sorted Sophi

A Guy

 

[hanan]

Hi,

I'm new member , i tried several way to import my sent items from outlook Express to window live mail using the methods explained in the previous comments it keep give me this message :

No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running that has the required open please select another folder or try closing applications that may have files



Please help

 

[Anak]

Hi hanan, welcome to 7F!

The first part of the error message indicates that there is nothing in the folders that it can work with to transfer, therefore it can not go any farther to complete it task. If it has nothing to work with, it has nothing to do.

The second part indicates the folder is open and can not be accessed if it is being used by another program while that is true. In programming it is considered rude to access another file or folder while it is being used by another program or else corruption of that file/folder will occur.

I will assume you do have mail in Outlook Express that you want to move, but your efforts can not see them. That needs further investigation.

For the second error re-boot your machine, do not open any other programs and only work with the solutions we have provided.


It is also considered inappropriate to attach your problem/situation to someone else's thread, it's called "highjacking".
If my suggestions do not help, please start your own thread in Browsers & Mail - Windows 7 Help Forums where it can be viewed by over a quarter of a million of SevenForums members instead of just the three here, you could point to this thread to show some of the solutions you have tried so far. "Many hands lighten the load".