This is what you need:
- Your OLD computer.
- Your NEW computer.
- A portable media - USB hard drive, CD, or a USB Flash drive. In the
following tutorial, I will refer to it as Drive F:.
ON YOUR OLD COMPUTER:
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Go to TOOLS menu, by pressing ALT-T.
3. Press Ctrl-Shift-Tab, so as to get to the last tab of the dialog - named
MAINTAINANCE.
4. Tab till you get to STORE FOLDER, and hit ENTER.
5. Tab till you get to the Read-Only Edit Box, which will hold a rather long
folder name. Typically, this will start with something like "C:\Documents and
Settings\"-blah-blah-blah.
6. Press Ctrl-A, to mark the whole line, then Ctrl-C, to copy it to the
clipboard.
7. Press ESCAPE, repeatedly, till you get back to your inbox folder of Outlook
Express.
8. To make sure no conflicts with open files, please close Outlook Express, by
hitting Alt-F4.
9. Open Windows Explorer.
10. Press the TAB key, and you should land on the address line.
11. Here, press Ctrl-V, to paste the contents of the clipboard; which would be
the address to the folder storing all your Outlook Express messages. Then, hit
ENTER.
12. You are now in the storing folder, of Outlook Express. The different
folders, will have the extension .DBX - so you will see things like INBOX.DBX,
and SENDT ITEMS.DBX. Press Ctrl-A, to mark all the files/folders; and then
press CTRL-C, to copy them to the clipboard.
13. Press TAB key, to get to the address line of Windows Explorer, and enter
the drive letter of your portable media - i.e, F: - then hit ENTER.
14. You now will be placed on the portable media. If you want you could make a
new folder, name it things like OE followed by the current date, and open that
folder. Or, you can choose to simply stay in the root of your flash drive. The
choice is yours, simply just keep track of where on your flash drive, you store
the copy.
15. When in the folder on the flash drive, where you want your copy placed,
press CTRL-V, and let the computer have its time, to copy all the information.
Depending on how many OE messages you have stored on your system, and the type
of portable media you are using, this might take a bit of time.
16. When the copying process has finished, follow normal procedure of removing
your portable media.
ON YOUR NEW COMPUTER:
17. Follow steps 1 through 11, as outlined above.
18. You will now be in the storing folder of OE on your new computer.
19. Plug in - or insert - the portable media. When it asks you what to do,
choose to open the folder, in Windows Explorer. If this doesn't work, upon
inserting the portable media, open a new session of Windows Explorer, and point
it to your portable drive.
20. Point yourself to, and open, the folder on your portable drive, in which
you stored the copied .dbx files, from your old system.
21. Mark and copy ALL the files in this folder, to the clipboard - CTRL-A,
CTRL-V.
22. ALT-TAB to the open folder of OE, on your new system, from step 18 above.
23. Paste the contents from the clipboard - CTRL-V - and let the computer do
its job.
YOU ARE DONE!
24. Close both the OE folder on your new computer, and the portable media.
25. Open OE on your new system, and you should have the full folder structure,
holding all your messages, from the old computer.
SOME REMARKS, AND WARNINGS:
A. This tutorial ONLY instructs you how to copy the messages themselves, and
the folder structure, of Outlook Express. It does NOT copy the message rules
that you had defined on your old system. These are stored in the Windows
Registry, and cannot easily be copied. Best thing is to re-enter these
manually, on your new system.
B. Please, NEVER use services like DropBox, SendSpace, or the like, as a
substitute for a flash drive, when handling personal or sensitive information
like in this case. NO matter how safe they claim to be, and might prove to be,
your information will be stored out of your control; hence, will be vulnerable
for hackers. If possible, I encourage you to perform actions like the above,
when you are offline.
C. the procedure stated in steps 1 through 16 above, will prove useful,
whenever you want to make a backup of your messages. Either make one new folder
for each backup date, on your flash drive. Or, paste the information from your
hard disk into the same folder on the portable drive everytime, and it will
always hold the newest backup. For a matter of ease, you might still want to
keep the backup from your two systems - i.e, your laptop and your desktop
computer - in two different folders. Name them things like
OE Laptop
and
OE Desktop.
Hope this proved of help to you. If there is further challenges, let me know,
and I will see if I can assist you further.
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith and Tracy
To: blindtech
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:06 PM
Subject: transfering messege rules tutorial again?
Hi, someone posted a tutorial on how to transfer / copy messege rules from
one system to another for OE. If possible, could you send that to me again>?
My email is:
[email protected]
Thanks
Keith
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