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| Pontus Maximus Senior Member  Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 |  Posted - Jan 25 2010 : 3:46PMI've decided to buy a new computer. How do I move my e-mail messages from my old computer to my new one? In Outlook Express, I clicked on "Export" just to get an idea how this might be done. I received the following message (but stopped short of execution): "This will export messages from Outlook Express to Microsoft Outlook or Miscrosoft Express." I didn't see either one of these listed in "All Programs." I really have no idea how to move my e-mail messages from one machine to another. [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 12:24AM [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 2:25AM [Link] |
Jacco  All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 8:34AM Jacco [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 12:44PM [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 12:54PM [Link] |
| Jordan1 Member Fishing, a fun hobby! 490 Posts 7/08 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 2:29PM I've never used a migration tool. You can save your addresses into a Word Processing program or Notepad beforehand, and after setting up Outlook Express download as stated above. You would have to manually copy and paste them into the wab Address Book. As for separately saving Sent Items, I have to look into that, or maybe someone can fill us in on a way to do that. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 26 2010 : 10:15PM I ended up manually copying a lot of files from my old computer to an external hard drive and then copying them from the external hard drive to the new computer. As far as email was concerned, I did some research and found out the files that contained all of my emails and after installing the email program, I just replaced the new files with the copied ones. [Link] |
| Robert Member My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage. 503 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 1:00PM When I didn't know any better I used Outlook Express. For a number of reasons I have since stopped using it as an e-mail client and switched to Thunderbird and Eudora (free editions). One of the major reasons I stopped using Outlook Express was that somewhere along the way they started using a Windows proprietary encoding scheme which changed the e-mail content to non-ASCII characters thereby preventing reading the file with a text editor. For me that's another example of Microsoft deciding what's best and not allowing the user to make that decision. I use a simple back-up program Karen's Replicator to save all my e-mails and any time I want to find something I use a text editor search engine to do a key word search. This works fine for both Thunderbird and Eudora and would expect it to work as well with any other e-mail client that stores the e-mail files in ASCII format. I burn a data DVD with those e-mail files (I keep them by year) so if I lose my back-up hard drive I have them on a data DVD. One can store a lot of e-mails on a 4.7 Gb DVD in ACSII format. And if I ever lose my current e-mails or have to transfer them to another machine I basically do what Bill does and use Explore to just copy the files to the directory (folder) where the e-mail client stores them. [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 6:44PM [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 6:56PM [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 7:07PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 27 2010 : 7:39PM [Link] |
| Pontus Maximus Senior Member Man of Steel, meet your match. 1346 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Jan 28 2010 : 6:08PM Regarding finding the files containing e-mails, when I took your advice and Googled, I found a website that explains the process very well (in an artlicle on backing up Outlook Express e-mail). I'll post the link in case anyone else here might be interested (if nothing else, it's worth bookmarking): Outlook Express [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 30 2010 : 10:04AM As you've discovered, it's very easy to transfer Outlook files. Just use "export a file" from the dropdown menu to create a copy from your old computer and "import a file" to put that copy on your new computer. If you export the file to a USB flashdrive, you can simply plug the flash drive into your new computer to import the file. The nice thing about this technique, in terms of data safety, is that your info doesn't "leave" your old computer. All you are doing is creating a copy for your new computer, so you can determine whether your copied data transfered intact. [Link] |
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