Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
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Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
12-08-2014 2:02 PM
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Many of these saved emails contain important information I refer to regularly. I shall need to access them on my new Win8.1 computer, which does not support OE.
Question 1: what is the best email solution to run on Win8.1, for an old computer git used to his OE?
Question 2: how do I go about transfering all my saved emails from my old OE to the new computer?
I should be very grateful for any advice.
Chris.
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
12-08-2014 2:16 PM
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In the "brave new world" those will have to be under separate logons, if you need to keep the separation.
The most doable route (others will disagree and have different solutions) IMHO is to migrate to Windows Live Mail.
You'll need to do this on the old XP system first, them move WLM data to the new one.
A bit of Googling should find lots of advice on the details.
Note that it's a different version of WLM that runs on XP vs W8, but you can install that (older) version on later OS's if you like it though ongoing operation and support isn't guaranteed.
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
12-08-2014 2:56 PM
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Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
13-08-2014 9:36 AM
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1. On the machine running OE, I have changed two email accounts from POP3 to IMAP.
2. I have created new folders on the IMAP account that mimic the saved folders that are stored locally on the machine running OE. I have then copied the contents of the folders onto the IMAP account
3. On the Win 8.1 computer I have installed Windows Live Mail 2012. I have set up both my email accounts as IMAP accounts. All the folders I created are visible.
If you have a lot of saved items you run the risk of exceeding the storage limit on the IMAP servers. You could create local folders on the Win8.1 computer and move the saved items onto local storage. I'm considering the option of using network storage (I believe this is possible with WLM 2012, it never was with OE). Another option I will explore is to create either a google mail account or outlook.com account where the storage limit is less restrictive than Plusnet.
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
13-08-2014 3:02 PM
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Tempted by Oldjim's idea of sticking with the familiar OE, but worried by the rather 'home-made' and support-free look of OE6 -- I've never been an early adopter!
I'm probably going to go with maranello's method, but using Windows 8 Mail app. If anyone has had experience of this, I'd be grateful for a heads-up.
I suspect I shall be back for further help before I have this sorted.....
Very grateful
Chris
PS -- I've just re-read HPSauce's comment on the Mail app in another thread, and I shall take seriously the preference for WLM -- Thanks.
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
14-08-2014 3:52 PM
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In reply to your post in 'the other' thread ...
Quote from: ChrisL I'm very interested in what you say about transfering emails from a WinXP to a Win7 running Thunderbird. To save hijacking this thread, I wonder if you'd be willing to expand on your reply in my thread
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,130452.0.html ?
I have never used Thunderbird, so need someone willing to hold my hand in getting files across from OE, and then again in moving from the old to the new computer (presumably this will not be very different in getting to Win8.1 rather than Win7?).
I hope you don't mind me asking?
Chris
Sorry for the delayed reply but I've been a bit busy.
I'd tend to agree with HPSauces comment above because when I was reading about moving from OE on a WinXP PC to Thunderbird on a different Win7 PC I saw something that said it was not possible to migrate multiple Identities across, but that didn't affect me because I only used a single Identity.
I'd seen some advice about installing TB on the WinXP PC to enable migration of the email folders etc. from OE to TB, before migrating everything from the WinXP TB installation to the Win7 TB one, and although I can't remember the exact procedure it was straight forward enough.
After I'd got all the email folders (with their contents and the folder tree intact!) moved across to the Win7 PC, I was a bit disappointed that the email accounts themselves (probably 15-20) hadn't appeared in TB because I didn't really want to go through configuring them all again.
However, a little bit of investigation/experimentation led me to discovering that if I copied a single file across from the WinXP TB installation to its corresponding location for the Win7 TB installation, all of the email accounts appeared and just required their passwords entering to be usable. I can't remember the name of the file I copied, but if you're still interested I can easily find out.
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
14-08-2014 6:15 PM
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In the end I decided the best long term solution was to migrate them all to Gmail (where I've had an account for years but hardly used it) though it's meant creating loads of new folders on my Gmail account since it appeared I couldn't drag folders across, only emails. I've cut down the number of folders from around 2,500 to around 100 or so by amalgamating ones I'd created for monthly or annual groupages - Googles search facility does seem quite good at sorting once you get used to it. The only problem I've had is that I recently tried to find an email and the search routine only produced emails dating back to 2007 whereas the one I wanted was earlier. However I did delete some early emails so it might have been one of those or the search term didn't feature in the email.
If you're referring to some frequently, wouldn't it be better to print them as PDF files and hold on your local machine - or in ordinary cloud storage?
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
14-08-2014 10:47 PM
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Quote from: maranello <snip>
2. I have created new folders on the IMAP account that mimic the saved folders that are stored locally on the machine running OE. I have then copied the contents of the folders onto the IMAP account
<snip>
If you have a lot of saved items you run the risk of exceeding the storage limit on the IMAP servers.
Question 1: is it easy to copy the contents of local folders in OE onto the Plusnet IMAP servers?
Question 2: what are the storage limits on the IMAP servers?
Best wishes
Chris
Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
15-08-2014 11:05 AM
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Quote from: ChrisL Question 1: is it easy to copy the contents of local folders in OE onto the Plusnet IMAP servers?
Should be simple enough.
Quote from: ChrisL Question 2: what are the storage limits on the IMAP servers?
You'll need to keep things < 1GB.
Bob Pullen
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Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
15-08-2014 11:36 AM
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Re: Transfering saved emails from Outlook Express on WinXP to new Win8.1 computer
15-08-2014 6:24 PM
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Quote from: Bob
Quote from: ChrisL Question 2: what are the storage limits on the IMAP servers?
You'll need to keep things < 1GB.
If you need more try Gmail - mine's showing "1.5 GB (9%) of 15 GB used" and only a bit of that is Google+ which I hardly ever use (don't know why I started...)
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