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Outlook Express transfer to Vista
From: "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaund...@mvps.org>
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Subject: Re: Outlook Express transfer to Vista
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:02:50 -0600
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It may depend on whether it's exported as a Regedit 4 or Regedit 5 (Windows
Registry Editor Version 5) file.
"Steve Cochran" <scoch...@oehelp.com> wrote in message
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> As I indicated a ffew months ago, the actual rule is now a Unicode string
> and it wasn't before. So one has to modify that.
>
> Here's what I posted on December 12th:
>
> <quote>
> Okay there are actually 4 issues, but I figured out two of them.
>
> This is for a single rule at the moment. I'll try and program it so it
> doesn't have to be done rule by rule.
>
> First export the rule from the machine with OE:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
> Express\5.0\Rules\Mail\002
>
> where GUID is the Identity and this is rule 3
>
> Then edit the reg file with Notepad.
>
> Do replace for
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0
>
> with
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
>
> Then save the file.
>
> Then the search strings have been changed to Unicode so set the cursor
> where
> the Rule Criteria start. Then do a second replace until the end of the
> file
> and search for
>
> ,
>
> replace with
>
> ,00,
>
> Then in the last line of each criteria add
>
> ,00
>
> Then save.
>
> Then create a mock rule in the registry with WinMail and close WinMail.
> Then delete that mock key in the registry. Make sure the rule number in
> the
> saved reg file matches that that you just deleted.
>
> Then merge the file into the registry.
>
> Open WinMail and go to Tools | Message rules and you see the new message
> rule spelled out okay when you click on it, except for the folder name.
> You
> will still have to specify the folder names again because those are coded
> numerically, I think.
>
> Anyway, that will work, but its a bit involved to do manually.
>
>
> </quote>
>
> "Jerry S" <notdisclo...@nada.tld> wrote in message
> news:O9LB0ZkWHHA.1688@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> That's odd, because in practice it works exactly as described. If you're
>> referring to the location that the rules are stored, that's covered in
>> steps
>> 3d - 3f. If you're referring to the pointers within the rules that
>> reference the objects within the OE data stores, that is covered in step
>> 5.
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