e-mail importing dilemma

jasoncarle · 07-11-2006, 09:07 AM

Here the problem.

I recently updated from an old Win 95 machine to a new machine running Win Xp. I also transferred to Firefox and Thunderbird. I have the old drive in an external enclosure and am trying to get the e-mails from it imported into thunderbird and it is not co-operating. Any tips?

jasoncarle · 07-11-2006, 09:27 AM

I should add that when browsing the old drive with outlook express importng wizard (which by the way, only gives me the options to import from outlook 4 and 6) it always tells me there are no e-mails there.

I know they are there, they were there yesterday when the drive was in the old computer.

jasoncarle · 07-11-2006, 12:21 PM

what kind of file should I be searching for on the old drive?

jasoncarle · 07-16-2006, 09:01 AM

Does anyone have any answers???

jasoncarle · 07-16-2006, 09:45 AM

Here is what I have so far. I found all the .dbx files on the old drive using search, now, How do I put them in the new outlook express, or even better, thunderbird?

jasoncarle · 07-16-2006, 10:11 AM

For anyone that may care, I got the e-mails imported into thunderbird. It took some reading of the microsoft knowledge base, but I got it figured out.

Now, I am on to the address book.

07-11-2006, 09:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	e-mail importing dilemma Here the problem. I recently updated from an old Win 95 machine to a new machine running Win Xp. I also transferred to Firefox and Thunderbird. I have the old drive in an external enclosure and am trying to get the e-mails from it imported into thunderbird and it is not co-operating. Any tips?

07-11-2006, 09:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	I should add that when browsing the old drive with outlook express importng wizard (which by the way, only gives me the options to import from outlook 4 and 6) it always tells me there are no e-mails there. I know they are there, they were there yesterday when the drive was in the old computer.

07-11-2006, 12:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	what kind of file should I be searching for on the old drive?

07-16-2006, 09:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	Does anyone have any answers???

07-16-2006, 09:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	Here is what I have so far. I found all the .dbx files on the old drive using search, now, How do I put them in the new outlook express, or even better, thunderbird?

07-16-2006, 10:11 AM	#6 (permalink)
jasoncarle Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 106 OS: XP and Mac OSX	For anyone that may care, I got the e-mails imported into thunderbird. It took some reading of the microsoft knowledge base, but I got it figured out. Now, I am on to the address book.