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| Thread ID: 39068 | 2003-10-26 09:08:00 | Taking Email Inbox & Sent messages to new PC | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 186794 | 2003-10-26 09:08:00 | A friends getting a new PC, Ive been asked if its possible to take the contents of their Outlook Express Inbox & Sent mail to the new PC. The existing unit is an old Win95 system with 3.5 floppy drive, new unit is WinXP etc.. with Floppy drive. Im not familiar with connecting two PCs together, and my friend lives about 3hrs drive away. I was hoping - after slimming down the Inbox & Sent mail folder contents, to zip them up onto floppy, & unzip on the new PCs. Is this possible, and what files will I need to transfer. Thanks in anticipation...... John W |
John W (523) | ||
| 186795 | 2003-10-26 09:42:00 | Yes, that can be done but you may need to do some juggling to get the emails to fit on floppy disks if there are many of them with fancy formatting and attachments . You can find out the size of the Outlook Express by doing a search on the computer for * . dbx files - and be prepared to get a shock at how large those folders may be . :D If you can get the contents of the Inbox (or whatever folder/s contain the emails) onto floppy disks, make sure that OE is not running and simply copy the Inbox . dbx and Sent . dbx to the disks . To put them onto the new computer do another search for * . dbx files and replace them with the ones on the floppies . Note that if OE has been used already then the emails in the Win XP folders will be replaced by the copied ones . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 186796 | 2003-10-26 12:40:00 | Yeah, WinZip will do it easily for you. Tell it you want to create a .ZIP file on the first floppy, add the files and choose "Automatic Disk Spanning". U should be sweet :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 186797 | 2003-10-26 20:45:00 | Have thought of some more since posting last night. Chill mentions spanning files across floppies with Winzip but I have not done that before although I have heard about it. I was going to suggest that if the Inbox is way too large to fit on a floppy then you would need to either use DBXtract to extract the emails from the DBX files and then copy them to floppies, or you would need to make new folders within OE to thin the Inbox down a bit by moving some emails into each new folder. Those new folders would then be able to be copied to a floppy. It would probably be quicker and easier to try the disk spanning of Winzip, however. :D The second thing I remembered was that in Win XP the .dbx files are hidden. You will need to go into Windows Explorer and in Tools>Folder Options>View enable "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and remove the tick from "Hide extensions for known file types". Also, when doing the search, go to the drop-down box "More advanced options" and put a tick in the first three options. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 186798 | 2003-10-27 03:42:00 | Hello Susan Yes I was going to reduce the Inbox, Sent Box .dbx files until they were a more managible 1Mb size or so, just wondering if anyone had done this exercise before. Thanks again.... John. |
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