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| Thread ID: 24168 | 2002-09-05 00:52:00 | Exporting Mail from Outlook Express 6 | david.castle (1761) | Press F1 |
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| 76512 | 2002-09-05 00:52:00 | When I try and export mail from Outlook Express, I get the message "An error occurred whilst initializing MAPI". It has been suggested by others that I go into tools/options, General tab, the make, or un-make, Explorer 6 the defualt mail handler. But this option is greyed out so this will not work. Am using Windows ME. Had the same problem with Outlook Express 5.5. When I updated to v6, I hoped that this would cure the problem. It did not. Thanks, David |
david.castle (1761) | ||
| 76513 | 2002-09-05 06:05:00 | This (support.microsoft.com) is what you are looking for. It's due to OE being the default mail program on your system. | antmannz (28) | ||
| 76514 | 2002-09-05 07:00:00 | Thanks, but what I have is "This application is the default mail handler" with a greyed out box which says "Make Default" . Microsofts suggested correction does not appear to apply to Outlook Express 6 . Maybe I should go back to an older version Outlook Express . Do you think the problem could be caused by having Opera installed as well? David |
david.castle (1761) | ||
| 76515 | 2002-09-05 07:12:00 | No .... it's a "feature"; as you don't have any other mail client installed, OE won't let you unclick the default - there's probably a registry setting that can be changed, I've had a quick look but can't see anything obvious. You could install another mail client like Pegasus or Eudora which would then allow you to untick that box. Why/what are you trying to export ?? If it's an entire folder it may be easier to just take the .dbx file associated with it - or if it's only a few mails, copy and save them to Word/Wordpad |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 76516 | 2002-09-05 07:44:00 | A month ago, I successfully exported my mail folders from my desktop and imported them to my laptop as I was away from home for a month. Now I wish to reverse the process; but now I can not export the mail folder from either computer. I could of course mail each email to myself but what a pain! As I will no doubt wish to do this again in the future, maybe my best answer is to install a second mail programme. Thanks for your suggestions, David |
david.castle (1761) | ||
| 76517 | 2002-09-05 14:18:00 | David, A sideways approach. Search Google ((or http://www.alltheweb.com/) or your favourite search engine) for UUD32. Read about what it does. What you want? Cheers, Alan |
Alan Carpenter (540) | ||
| 76518 | 2002-09-05 22:04:00 | Try this: In Windows Explorer on the laptop (?) do a search for your .dbx folders and locate the folder that you want to transfer to your other machine. I presume it is your Inbox? Still in Explorer copy and paste your Inbox.dbx folder (or whichever folder is the appropriate one) so that you have two copies. Rename that copy to something else, eg Transfer.dbx. If that folder is small enough to fit on a floppy disk, transfer it to a floppy. On the receiving computer open Outlook Express, click on Local Folders and create another folder called Transfer. Close OE. Still on that machine open Win Explorer, find the .dbx folders, insert your floppy disk and move the floppy's Transfer.dbx folder and replace the one on that hard drive. Cross your fingers, open OE and see if your emails are now in the new Transfer folder. If it didn't work you didn't cross your fingers correctly! |
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