Hello all!
My husband and I just bought our first, FIRST!!! New computer!!!
(Everyone cheer…)
We now have the wonderful job of moving all of our files and “cleaning” house ahead of us.
I can figure out pretty much everything else, but can’t figure out how to save or transfer all of my emails from Outlook express. Ideally I would be able to put them all as is on the new computer so I don’t loose anything.
Anyone know how?
ELF NEED HELP!!!
I reinstall Windows every once in a while and jump from different OSes and the way I deal with that is to have a neutral place to store the emails to begin with.
In OExpress, in settings/preferences and under maintainence you can choose where outlook stores the emails.
I store my emails in “D:\Resources\Outlook Express” whitch is on my second harddrive so I can always get to them no matter what OS i’m using. Plus it makes backing them up them up much easier.
On your old setup, locate where it stores it’s emails (for example by going to the maintance in preferences and look at what path it says), then just simply copy that whole folder to whwerever you want it… burn it if it’s large, and save it somewhere on your new comp. THen in that OE do the same thing, go into maintance and click the “folder” button to see the path then click “change”, and browse to where you saved your old email. Then it’s gonna ask you if you really want to use that folder since it seems not to be empty.. and you press the yes button(probably).. then restart OE and then your done..
PS. My OS doesn’t speak english 
.. i’m just guessing what the buttons and such says.. good luck…
with OE going to another computer you pretty much have to do it manually, I just do a search for *.dbx, just take all those files and put them in the corresponding directory on the new computer. probably the fastest way if you don’t have a network or a CDRW is to just put the old hard drive in the new computer and copy everything over that way.
Of course you COULD do it that way, but it’s not the correct way 
Just kidding.
I agree with the connecting the old HD in, much better then trying to copy via zip/floppy or cdr/rw. Especially if there’s lots of mail in there. My OE folder is over 300mb.
Thanks very much for the tips. I have my computers all hooked up by network and can use the kids computer to store files while I do the switch, I just couldn’t seem to find where the files were stored. I really appreciate the info!
If that doesn’t work, you could always export the file to a comma delimited file and then import the data onto your new machine. But what do I know!?!? 
Fiddling Tenor
??? comma delimited file 
Elf confused…