transfering messages from Outlook express...

suppafly

So yeah i'm fixing up some ones comp cuz they just got a new one so i've transfered all the files except for the messages in outlook express. I couldn't work out how to export them. So can some one tell me how to transfer them to another comp? thanks

Frank Grimes

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GUI

not well documentated
but outlook supports drag and drop of emails..

bascially do a select all on the folder u wanna backup

and drag all the messages into another windows folder

all the messages are created as individual files with .eml extension

great for transfer between ppl also

tman

Originally posted by GUI
not well documentated
but outlook supports drag and drop of emails..

bascially do a select all on the folder u wanna backup

and drag all the messages into another windows folder

all the messages are created as individual files with .eml extension

great for transfer between ppl also

gah, i wish i'd known that last year.
i put all my faith in an app called backrex outlook express backup, or somesuch.
pile of useless crap tbh.

suppafly

Originally posted by GUI
not well documentated
but outlook supports drag and drop of emails..

bascially do a select all on the folder u wanna backup

and drag all the messages into another windows folder

all the messages are created as individual files with .eml extension

great for transfer between ppl also

amd when u transfer them onto the other computer how do u get them back into Outlook Express? Do u just drag them back in or do u do some import thing?

GUI

just select all
and drag and drop!

suppafly

right cool, thanks lads

niallb

If the new machine has Windows XP on it,
look for the item called something like
File and Settings Migration or transfer Wizard
It should be on the start menu for a newly installed machine.

Run it and give it a floppy when it asks you to.
It's the business.
Stick the floppy in the old machine and run the program on the disk.
It'll pack up all the mails address book and files on the old PC,
stick them in a folder and let you import them onto the new machine.
Different versions of Outlook and Outlook express are pigs for talking
to each other which is why Microsot must have written this program.

You can copy files over on a floppy if you don't have a lot of mail,
but really you'll need a serial/parallel cable or an ethernet cable.
If you have a CD burner on the old machine you can use that.
You just need to get the files to the new machine
and the wizard does the rest.
NiallB