Vista Windows Mail On Windows 7

[Tiggy]

Hi guys,

I used what I did read here to tranfer my vista windows mail on Windows 7 and it works great.

I just have one problem; when i move a mail to one of my folders (from inbox to something else) all the content seems to be missing and I get this error

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Message cannot be found


The contents of this message cannot be found.



Windows Mail


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Did I forget something when moving my files? I didn't take ownership of nothing since it wasn't mentioned on the post i did read (just renamed old dir and moved all allong)

I also seem to get empty message without subject, sender or message body ... simply fully blank.

Any ideas (did get any of those on my vista for over a year)

Hope you guys can help me out

Bye

 

[ccatlett1984]

what app are you opening the email in? windows live mail?

 

[Tiggy]

Vista Windows Mail On Windows 7 (see topic )

I hate the live one ...

 

[richc46]

Hi guys,

I used what I did read here to tranfer my vista windows mail on Windows 7 and it works great.

I just have one problem; when i move a mail to one of my folders (from inbox to something else) all the content seems to be missing and I get this error

--QUOTE--
Message cannot be found


The contents of this message cannot be found.



Windows Mail


--QUOTE--

Did I forget something when moving my files? I didn't take ownership of nothing since it wasn't mentioned on the post i did read (just renamed old dir and moved all allong)

I also seem to get empty message without subject, sender or message body ... simply fully blank.

Any ideas (did get any of those on my vista for over a year)

Hope you guys can help me out

Bye

I hope that I understand your question, if I do I can help. If you look at the pane on the left, toward the bottom. The pane where all your mail boxes are located toward the bottom of the tree, you will see archives. All your mail should be there. Hope this works for you

 

[Tiggy]

No archives directory

I copied my windows mail folder from my vista backup to my new install of windows 7.

I only got that prob when i move mail to another directory than "inbox" ... as long as i leave it in inbos all my data is there but once moced it is gone and windows mail says the error above :|

In the listing email and subject are stillt here but if I open the mail (2x click) i see unspecified sender and in the body the error. Any ideas?

Ownership problem? permissions?

 

[MyWin7]

sounds like an incompatibility! - probably a bad idea to just copy over

can you import the Vista mail folder? or maybe there is an export function in Vista Mail that can be used to import in W7?

 

[Tiggy]

I only copied the windows mail directory.

Messages where imported into "blank" winmail.

I tried with playing with my antivirus prog and It got worse; instead of emptiing the mail body it just replaces it by another mail content :|

Turning off email protection didn't change a thing eather still buggy :|

 

[MyWin7]

you probably do not understand my point - is there a mail-import option in WinMail then use that one?

 

[Tiggy]

I imported all mail using the import function (imported from original vista mail directory)

 

[MyWin7]

In message #5 you write you just copied the mail folder from Vista over to W7 - now, what is it?

 

[jim0933]

More to the point, it sounds as though his message store folder is not in the default location (i.e., he has moved it elsewhere) and since there is no registry info to support such a move, the program cannot find anything he moves.

Just an educated guess, but Windows Mail is not supported in Windows 7, so its use may well encounter problems, although I've been using Windows Mail in Windows 7 since the first beta without problems.

Good luck.

Jim Pickering

 

[Tiggy]

I only copied the windows mail directory.

Messages where imported into "blank" winmail.

I tried with playing with my antivirus prog and It got worse; instead of emptiing the mail body it just replaces it by another mail content :|

Turning off email protection didn't change a thing eather still buggy :|

In message #5 you write you just copied the mail folder from Vista over to W7 - now, what is it?

Windows Mail folder; not the mail storage directory (i copied program files only)

 

[Tiggy]

More to the point, it sounds as though his message store folder is not in the default location (i.e., he has moved it elsewhere) and since there is no registry info to support such a move, the program cannot find anything he moves.

Just an educated guess, but Windows Mail is not supported in Windows 7, so its use may well encounter problems, although I've been using Windows Mail in Windows 7 since the first beta without problems.

Good luck.

Jim Pickering

Only think i moved is the program files directory for windows mail from vista to win7. For that i had to rename original windows mail directory on win7.

I just placed the original dir back and copied only the msoe.dll to the windows mail folder; which means i am using the hidden winmail.exe from win7 now; imported the messages and now we'll see what happends after couple of days

I ll keep you all posted.

 

[Qdos]

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