Transferring all OE files to Windows Live Mail.

[John Morrison]

 

[choro]

And, what were you going to say.John?

Or did you forget it? ;-)

choro
*****

 

[John Morrison]

And, what were you going to say.John?

Or did you forget it? ;-)

<snipped>

I either forgot what I was going to say or next door's cat got my
tongue

 

[Peter Jason]

Yup. You got it. Storage folders, or create your own
folders first.

It does the job, but it's tedious beyond belief. Also when
I transfer all the newly-created folders to the new computer
I put them into:
"Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live
Mail\Storage Folders"

Is this the correct destination?

When I get all the old folders to the above, some times the
folders are duplicated, with a "(1)" after the name, though
also sometimes with a curious "(2j)" after the name. Some
of these duplicate folders are empty and I delete them. I
hope this is OK?

Then when I have them all in the "Storage Folder", I go to
WLM and redirect them into suitable other and subfolders.
Is this alright?

P

 

[Bruce Hagen]

It does the job, but it's tedious beyond belief. Also when I transfer
all the newly-created folders to the new computer I put them into:
"Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Storage Folders"

Is this the correct destination?

When I get all the old folders to the above, some times the folders are
duplicated, with a "(1)" after the name, though also sometimes with a
curious "(2j)" after the name. Some of these duplicate folders are
empty and I delete them. I hope this is OK?

Then when I have them all in the "Storage Folder", I go to WLM and
redirect them into suitable other and subfolders. Is this alright?

P

I'm no WLMail wiz. I used it for awhile and that switched to Thunderbird.
However, if you had created local folders first, you could have dragged
the messages directly to them. As it is now, you can still create new
local folders and then move the messages to them. When I did use WLMail, I
had no desire to use storage folders or quick views and had them both
disabled, but that's strictly up to you.

 

[Peter Jason]

I'm no WLMail wiz. I used it for awhile and that switched
to Thunderbird. However, if you had created local folders
first, you could have dragged the messages directly to
them. As it is now, you can still create new local folders
and then move the messages to them. When I did use WLMail,
I had no desire to use storage folders or quick views and
had them both disabled, but that's strictly up to you.

Thank you. I've have just tried importing everything into
Thunderbird; and it worked! Everything has imported
across! Also the Thunderbird has a clearer screen, and so
I'll run with this for a while foe a good tryout.

Regards.