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Re: Outlook Express transfer to Vista

Steve Cochran <scoch...@oehelp.com>

Nice to know its the same problem in German as well.  See
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Its the "Browse" button in English.

steve

"GBorn" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message

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> "Tony L" <t.law...@btinternet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> Hi
>> Can anyone tell me how to transfer my messages from Outlook Express on my
>> old machine to Windows mail on the new machine. I have successfully
>> exported my address book and imported to Vista and that is working fine
>> but the two programs appear to use different file extensions for
>> messages.

>> Many thanks
> Try to use the import wizard - as well as for adressbook import. It works
> well - but there is a small bug, that prevent you from time to time
> importing the outlook express messages successful (the import wizard tells
> you that there are no messages found - can't tell the precicse error text,
> because I'm using the German edition of Vista). In case that this message
> occur, proceed the following steps:

> - go one step back in import wizard and check the import path (in most
> cases the last folder name within the import path is shown double).
> - try to select the import path again using the "browse button" (don't
> know the excact name, we have here a Durchsuchen-button). Select the
> import path in the right pane of the dialog windows and close the window

> - now the import path should be shown in the right way#

> - process the import steps as known and Windows Mail will import all
> messages in a separate "import" folder.

> If that won't suite, maybe an access right issue is the problem. In this
> case I suggest to copy all your Outlook Express .dbx-files in a separate
> folder of your Public folder and try to import the messages.

> Hope that helps

> G. Born
> www.borncity.de