Importing OE to Microsoft Mail

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I tried the microsoft easy transfer. It turned out to work for everything
except for my mail folders. I have all the folders and it says there is
messages in them. But I get and error saying, " low disk space" or "low
memory" so I cannot see the mail. Thanks. Rob.
 
Rob B. said:
I tried the microsoft easy transfer. It turned out to work for everything
except for my mail folders. I have all the folders and it says there is
messages in them. But I get and error saying, " low disk space" or "low
memory" so I cannot see the mail. Thanks. Rob.
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Just a guess, Rob: If you have McAfee virus protection running, what you've
described is just ONE of the nightmarish symptoms you'll encounter. McAfee
has proven to be incompatible with Vista, and it wreaks havoc on WinMail. I
had the same problem, and uninstalling McAfee resolved it.

Bill
 
Look at these posts:

The problem is solved!!! The reason was the doubling of the folder name in
the path listed in the Windows Mail import Window! iThe correct solution is
described in the first comment to the message "Copying e-mails from Outlook
Express to Windows Mail":

Create a folder on Vista machine.
Copy ALL the dbx files from the machine with OE6 on it to the folder you
created on the Vista machine.
File | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6
press Next
press Browse
navigate to the folder you copied the dbx files to.
Select it.
in the Filename line, remove it (yes I said rmove it it's another in the
long line of bugs not fixed)
press Open button
finish up the import.

My comments:
1) I had just all the data files from my old Win98 machine onto my new Vista
machine copied. In this way the folder containing all the dbx files,
including the Folders.dbx file, was transferred onto the new Vista PC, as
well.
2) The File name line specified above is the file name line in Windows
Exploer, not in the Windows Mail import window!!!


Użytkownik "Steve Cochran said:
See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm

steve
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Thanks for all the respones guys, turns out it was mcafee. I uninstalled it
and now use norton.
 
Glad you got it fixed.

steve

Marcus said:
Look at these posts:

The problem is solved!!! The reason was the doubling of the folder name in
the path listed in the Windows Mail import Window! iThe correct solution
is
described in the first comment to the message "Copying e-mails from
Outlook
Express to Windows Mail":

Create a folder on Vista machine.
Copy ALL the dbx files from the machine with OE6 on it to the folder you
created on the Vista machine.
File | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6
press Next
press Browse
navigate to the folder you copied the dbx files to.
Select it.
in the Filename line, remove it (yes I said rmove it it's another in the
long line of bugs not fixed)
press Open button
finish up the import.

My comments:
1) I had just all the data files from my old Win98 machine onto my new
Vista
machine copied. In this way the folder containing all the dbx files,
including the Folders.dbx file, was transferred onto the new Vista PC, as
well.
2) The File name line specified above is the file name line in Windows
Exploer, not in the Windows Mail import window!!!
Click to expand...
 
Rob B. said:
Thanks for all the respones guys, turns out it was mcafee. I uninstalled
it
and now use norton.
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That's just about as bad. Use NOD32 or Avast.
 
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