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Old December 27th 06, 08:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
badgolferman
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Michael Santovec, 12/27/2006, 1:46:06 PM,
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Bruce gives you one method.

If it's not a lot of messages, I would tend to go the EML route.
Just drag-and-drop the messages to an empty folder. Transport that
to the other PC. Then open OE, select the destination folder and
drag-and-drop the EML files into it.

- Complication: Messages are saved as *.EML files where the first
part of the file name is the message's subject. If you save
multiple messages in one drag-and drop operation, OE will
automatically number the subsequent messages with identical subject
to make the name unique. But if you later save additional messages
with the same subject it will start the numbering process over again
and you will get a "Confirm File Replace" dialog for the duplicate
names. When this happens, leave the confirm dialog and switch to the
Windows File Explorer. Rename the first file (e.g. rename "The
Subject.EML" to "The Subject-1.EML"). Then switch back to the
Confirm dialog and click on YES. The new message will get saved with
the original name and the previous message will still be there with
the new name.


The mailbox in question has about 70 messages. Many of them have the
same Subject header and are replies to each other.

Ideally I would like to integrate all these messages to my home
computer with the same-named OE mailbox but don't mind renaming one of
them if necessary. I suppose when it has been imported I could always
drag and drop to the other mailbox.

Unless I get another suggestion I will copy the mailbox folder as
outlined by Bruce and see how it works. Hopefully a flash drive will
work instead of a CD-ROM in this case.
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