Hi Donnie,
It's really simple and easy to do.
Basically, what you do is go to her personal store folder, this being:
c:\\documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\identities\\Identity=Long
string of numbers and letters\Microsoft\Outlook Express\
Where the path says "Identity=Long String of Numbers and Letters", means
that this will be a long series of
numbers and letters, so, in lieu of putting just any long string of
characters there, I just
placed the term "Identity=Long String of Numbers and Letters". If she's got
more than one account, meaning
when she views her e-mails in Outlook Express she has to go into the file
menu, then switch to identities to look at other e-mail accounts she has,
then there will be two of these long identity names, so in that case, she'll
have to go into each identity and copy the Outlook Express folder onto a USB
key or other transferable media.
This folder, especially if she's been using XP and Outlook Express for quite
some time, will be a large folder to copy over, possibly in the hundreds of
megabytes, if not a full gigabyte, so make sure you've got a USB thumb drive
equal to the task.
Now, you may come into a problem in that you can't find this folder of which
I speak, and in that case, you don't have hidden files and folder to show,
so press alt+T to go to the tools menu, then up arrow to folder options and
press enter.
In the folder options, control+tab to the view tab, then tab twice to the
tree view.
In that tree view, arrow down to the section titled, "Hidden files and
folders", and arrow down twice more to show hidden files and folders. This
should be set to on, so if it's set to off, press the spacebar to turn it
on.
Once done, arrow down once or twice more to show the content of system
folders, and make sure this is set to on. If it's off, press the spacebar
to turn it on.
Now tab to the apply button, press the spacebar, shift+tab to the ok button,
and again press the spacebar.
Now you'll find that the folder is now there, and you can now copy the
folder over.
Once you've done this, place the USB thumb drive into the new computer you
want to import messages to, and open up Windows Live Mail.
Once open, press alt+F to go to the file menu/ribbon, then arrow down to
Import Messages and press enter.
In the resulting dialog box, you'll be given three choices of what e-mail
message format you wish to import. In your case, select Outlook Express 6,
then tab to the next button and press spacebar.
At this point, WLM will try to do something stupid like trying to look for
where you have the Outlook Express files, so just wait a second until it
smartens up and realizes you have to tell it where to look for the files,
and a dialog box will pop up asking you for the path to where the Outlook
Express 6 files are located. Tab to the browse button and press the
spacebar to activate it, and in the resulting dialog box, navigate to the
folder where the Outlook Express files are located on the thumb drive. Just
a warning, do not actually go into the folder named Outlook Express, simply
press enter on that folder, and go to the next step.
Once you highlight the folder, you'll be presented with a list of folders
you had in the thumb drive, and it'll ask you to choose which folders you
wish to import messages from.
Go down the list, making sure to select each folder you want to import,
similar to the way one selects contiguous and non-contiguous files in
Windows Explorer then
tab to the next button and press the spacebar to activate.
The import will start, and you'll be notified when the import is complete.
If you have two identities, you'll have to perform the above steps again, so
do so until you've got all the messages you want.
Now your messages will appear in a folder called Imported, and you can now
move or delete them as you see fit.
Hope this helps.
Scorpio
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