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Summary: Moving Outlook Express folders from one machine to another isn't obvious. Moving Outlook Express folders involves finding them, copying them, and importing them. And then there's the address book.
In particular, the person asking had just received a new Windows XP machine to replace her Windows 98 machine. There are several approaches, naturally, but in a nutshell we'll locate the folders on the old machine, copy them to the new machine, and then import them. And then we'll do the something similar for the address book. • On the old machine, the easiest way to locate Outlook Express' email store is to ask Outlook Express. Fire it up, and then in Tools, Options, on the Maintenance tab there's a button labeled Store Folder. Click that and it will tell you the folder containing your email folder. Copy the entire contents of that directory to a floppy, CD-ROM, or share on your network. The address book we handle a little differently. Open up the address book either from the accessories menu item on your Start menu, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B in Outlook Express. In the address book, select File, Export, and click on Address Book (WAB).... You can now select a location and filename for your address book to be placed. Again, you can copy it to floppy, CD-ROM, or to a share on your network. Fire up Outlook Express on the new machine, and we'll just reverse the process. Select File, Import, Messages.... Choose Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and press Next. Select Import mail from an OE6 store directory and press Next. Now on the next screen, browse to the location that you've placed the message store we saved from your old machine. Import, and your messages should now be transferred. Note: if you've copied your mail folders to a CD-R, you'll need to first copy them to your local hard disk, and then unmark them from being read-only before you import. OE will not open read-only folders. The process for the address book is similar - even simpler. File, Import, Address Book..., select the address book we exported above, and import. Finally, you'll want to configure your email accounts in Outlook Express to access your email account from your ISP. Related:
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What can i say....worked first time and no issues with dbx.files. Must add my thanks as like Bruce F. laplink was an abject failure and your site saved the day. Many thanks. Posted by: Martin at May 5, 2008 03:30 AMA big thanks to RR at November 10, 2004 12:17 PM for his posting on re-naming the "folders.dbx" to any other name.dbx to make it possable to then inport all your old folders and messages into OE. I was getting the error message "no files found or another program is using them" also and tried some of the suggestions with the folders file. They weren't working but I noticed I had some errors from my burn since Outlook Express was open when I copied the files to CD. I went back, closed outlook, re-burned the files that had errors, copied them over to the new computer and the transfer went without a hitch. Please note the files were present on the original burn, but perhaps with Express open when burning the files were somehow different. Don't know if this will help everyone but it solved the problem for me. Posted by: Steve at May 23, 2008 07:47 AMThese instructions are EXCELLENT! Thank you!! Posted by: BJ at June 4, 2008 01:27 PMExcellent instructions. Found them via Google. I am not looking forward to xferring files to a new PC for a friend, but your instructions will make it bearable. Thanks Leo. Watch those lattes! Posted by: Kevin at June 5, 2008 04:33 AMHello Leo, Hello Leo, Perfect first time - Thanks to Leo Posted by: John Bonar at June 10, 2008 01:26 PMMuch thanks, a very useful guide :) Posted by: ThrashWolf at June 11, 2008 11:30 PMThanks Leo! These were perfect! I am super impressed and grateful. Posted by: Allyson at June 22, 2008 02:05 PMPost a comment on "How do I move my Outlook Express folders to my new machine?":
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