Well, it is technically possible. Yet, I don't exactly encourage such a
sollution, unless you already have access to the necessary equipment. To
connect two PCs by the use of a USB cable, you will need a bit of setup on
both your systems. Furthermore, you will need a specially designed USB
cable - so-called BRIDGED USB CABLE.
NOTE: DO NOT use a normal USB A-to-A cable, as that will pose a risk on your
systems, of burning their USB port, or even their power-supply. Such a try,
might prove far more expensive, than what you ever wanted. In case, you want
to try linking two PCs together, get the right hardware. After all, why
would you ever bother go and buy a special USB cable? If you are only
looking at transfering a few files, and you insist on not using a portable
media, I strongly encourage you to get a Router for your network - something
that will increase the general security, when you surf the internet - and
then bring up both your home computers in a local network. By such a
solution, you will be able to skip the steps in my tutorial, that applied to
the portable media. It does need a bit of first-time configuration, though.
Since my tutorial was written in a manner that should work for even the less
driven computer user, I did omit a network-based transfer of the files in
question. For those of you, who want to do it over a local network, I
encourage a search on the net, for tutorials on how to set up a home
network. IF you want to look anything further on a USB-based connection
between your two computers, here is a site that goes into details on the
matter:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Connecting-Two-PCs-Using-a-USB-USB-Cable/248/1
Someone kindly pointed out, there is a small miss in my initial tutorial.
Thanks, good to see, someone is willing to correct, when there happen to be
a misprint. The tutorial was written in a hurry, so as to help out another
user. In one of my first steps, I ask you to go to the tools menu, in
Outlook Express. Here you will have to choose the OPTIONS, which best can be
performed by simply pressing once on the UP-arrow key, then hit Enter, and
follow my steps further on. Sorry for any confusion this miss of mine, might
have caused. I am always open for input and feedback on my articles and
tutorials.
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Juranek" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: transfering messege rules tutorial again?
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. If possible, could you send that to
me ag>his
My email is:
[email protected]
Thanks
Keith
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