Old box, Win 95 / OLexpress : New box, XP OL 2000 HELP Please

[Guest]

My mother-in-law wants her old Win 95 Outlook express inbox, sent items, deleted items, & address book transferred to her new XP machine with Outlook 2000. I haven't got a clue. Please make me a hero and save my marriage! Thanks

 

[Rifleman]

My mother-in-law wants her old Win 95 Outlook express inbox, sent items,

deleted items, & address book transferred to her new XP machine with Outlook
2000. I haven't got a clue. Please make me a hero and save my marriage!
Thanks

Backup and Restore OE
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

 

[Rifleman]

Rifleman, I do appreciate your reminder about a separate forum for

Express, but my issue also includes importing into Outlook 2000. The link
you offered provides much info on back up and restoring of express only.
Can anyone provide info on how to move the express files to the new machine
and then convert and import into Outlook 2000? Thank you.

Well, two options. In OE File-Export, or, in Outlook File-Import and Export.
take your pick.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rifleman. Let me see if I've got this right

1. Backup old files onto CD or floppy.
2. Import from CD or floppy into Express on new machine.
3. Then finally Import or Export old files from Express on new machine to Outlook 2000 on new machine

Am I reading this correctly or is it possible to simply take express files from CD or floppy directly into Outlook 2000

Thank you.

 

[Rifleman]

Thanks Rifleman. Let me see if I've got this right:

1. Backup old files onto CD or floppy.
2. Import from CD or floppy into Express on new machine.
3. Then finally Import or Export old files from Express on new machine to Outlook 2000 on new machine.

Am I reading this correctly or is it possible to simply take express files

from CD or floppy directly into Outlook 2000?

Thank you.

Correct - you have to import the files into OE on the new machine - Outlook
won't import OE files direct from a CD (I think).
make sure that the files on the Cd contain the file called folders.dbx
otherwise you won't be able to do an import, you will have to do a manual
import procedure.