Importing Messages

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I am still unable to import the PST file that has all my old messages from
Outlook 2000 into Windows Mail. I've tried loading Office 2000 on this Vista
machine but it locks up 1/2 way through the install and It won't load
outlook. How can I get the files to import when I can't get outlook loaded
on the computer?
 
CLN said:
I am still unable to import the PST file that has all my old messages from
Outlook 2000 into Windows Mail. I've tried loading Office 2000 on this
Vista
machine but it locks up 1/2 way through the install and It won't load
outlook. How can I get the files to import when I can't get outlook
loaded
on the computer?
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Import them into Outlook Express on another machine with Outlook 2000
installed.

Set up a new Identity in OE.
Switch to it them import the messages into it.

Copy the DBX files from that Identity to Vista.
Import from there.
 
I had a similar thing with the PST file. I ended up importing all the Outlook
messages into Outlook Express. Then I dragged all the message headers out of
Outlook Express into a regular document folder. Each message becomes a .eml
file in that document folder. You can then drag all those .eml files in the
Message List for your Inbox (or any other folder) in Windows Mail.

Not pretty, but it works ;-)

You only have to do it for messages. Contacts you can export to CSV, then
import from the CSV file into Windows Contacts.
 
This still doesn't work, when I try to import it says the files are being
used by another application. What application?
 
Ok, i'm just a moron!!!!! After I read Puppy's directions a thousand times it
finally worked just dragging the messages in. That's the only thing that did
work. I am getting an error when i try to export the contacts to a CSV File.
Any idea on that?
 
Set Outlook to be the default email client. Just remember, whatever program
you are exporting to or from usually needs to the default program if it's
written by Microsoft.
 
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