Hello, To my knowledge, you can also use a u s b cable to connect the two machines, and follow his steps. Hth, Tyler
----- Original Message ----- From: David <[email protected]> To: "Keith and Tracy" <[email protected]>, "bltech" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010 13:55:56 Subject: Re: transfering messege rules tutorial again? > > > > > 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 "Ccc\Documents > and Settings\by comblah-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-Fbled. > 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: bltech > 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. 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