Hi Patti, JAWS really has nothing to do with what you want to do other than you need it to know what's going on with your computer.
First of all, are you familiar with the feature that allows a user to change the location of his/her Outlook Express files? This is important because that's how you can determine where your files are stored on both your old and new PC. OK, that said -- and presuming that you are familiar with the feature of OE that let's a user change the location of OE files -- find out where on your old computer your DBX files are stored and make a note of this path. Then do the same thing on your new PC and again note the location where files are stored. Then I strongly advise that on your new computer create a new transfer folder of some sort in your new OE. For example, as a folder at the same level as your new InBox create a folder named "X-Fer" and then within that folder re-create the exact folder structure of your old PC's Outlook Express. For example, there should be an "InBox" as a sub-folder of this new "X-Fer" folder and any other folders that exist in your old OE should likewise have a counterpart under this "X-Fer" folder. This will make sense to you shortly. Now find the DBX files that reside in your old OE that are email storage folders rather than parent folders that hold sub-folders. Each of these email storage folders should have a counterpart folder on the new PC that you would have created as I've advised above. You can then copy each of these DBX files over to your new PC and be sure to place them as overwrites to the sub-folders you created under X-Fer in your new OE. You will then be able to access all the email messages stored in the old DBX files right from your new OE and you can move them just as you please. If something here doesn't make sense to you please feel free to contact me and I can call you (I have flat rate long distance) and walk you through this. I know it's complicated, but the explanation is complicated because what you want to do is complicated and somewhat risky. I say risky because if you're not careful to bring the old messages as I've advised you run the risk of losing newer messages that come into your new OE. ---*---*---*---*---*--- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." - Robert Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaws" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:17 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Moving folders in OE I have a new challenge for the list? I got a new computer, and I want to move some of my folders from outlook express that are full of emails that I don't want to lose, to the new computer outlook express. I thought I could zip the folder and move it that way, but I can't figure it out. Does any one know how I can do it with Jaws 8? On both computers I'm running Jaws 8, windows XP home, and IE 7. I have a transfer kit, but I don't want this OE, because there is something wrong with this one, and I want to start out with the new Outlook express. I hope this makes since to you. Patti Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
