Hi to all on list:
First let me say a happy new year to all, here's hoping it's gonna be a
prosperous one.
Well Santa was good to me this year, he got me a new Dell machine with
Windows 7. As of now I don't have too many questions, except for one.
Last week I decided to switch to Thunderbird since Outlook Express isn't
supported by new Windows 7. I then chose to install Thunderbird on my
other machine running Windows XP. Right away the import wizard started
and my mail and other settings were imported. My mistake, was to delete
most of my mail from Outlook Express. My dad hooked up both computers
with a cable and then did the transfer. In theory this is supposed to
work, and it did except for most of my imported folders, which store
email messages from the Jaws list, the skype chat list and the blind
tech info list. These folders don't show when I arrow through my list of
available folders. What happened, is kind of difficult to explain. When
my files were transferred to my new machine, the mail I didn't yet
delete from Outlook Express got transferred onto my new machine in such
a way that I could access those folders from inside Thunderbird. I am
convinced that the imported mail boxes are stored somewhere on my hard
drive. Is there a way I could recover the mail that didn't get
transferred? I'm finding that Windows 7 stores files differently than
Windows XP. Fortunately, I backed up my imported mail onto a thumb drive
so hopefully, not all is lost. I already know the names of the folders,
and there is another table of contents type file that matches the name
of the folder. The problem is, where do I store them in Windows 7?
Why did I choose Thunderbird? The scripts from Empowerment zone helped
me decide to do this, and I don't regret it.
Hal
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