Thanks Milly. I'll leave this in your capable hands unless you think
there's something further that we can help with.
--
Jim Pickering



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
...
Are Outlook's email account(s) set up? If yes, there should be no problem
exporting from OE to Outlook. However, remember that Outlook 2007 is a
beta
and is subject to sudden whims and fevers. It may not work out of the
box.

Having said that, how are you trying to export from OE to Outlook?


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, TS Mathews asked:

| I must not have explained myself...I do have them in Outlook Express.
| When I've exported them, although from the OE side, it appeared to
| have gone just like any previous exports had gone BUT when I opened
| Outlook, they weren't there. To make sure the other point I'm
| wondering about...I don't have any e-mail accounts setup in OE. I'm
| only using it for my news at present making me wonder if that might
| be why e-mail messages aren't exporting to Outlook and/or Outlook
| can't "see" another e-mail program on my system.
|
|
| "Jim Pickering" wrote in message
| ...
|| What you have in mind is most likely going to be a two step process.
|| First, open Outlook Express and use its menu,
|| File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a Message Store and point to the folder
|| containing the old DBX files. Once that completes, you can then
|| export from Outlook Express to Outlook or open Outlook and import
|| from its menu. In other words, you've got to get the messages into
|| Outlook Express before you can export/import them to anywhere.
|| --
|| Jim Pickering
|| MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
|| Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
|| feedback.
||
||
|| "TS Mathews" wrote in message
|| news:Bw9zg.176721$S61.170136@edtnps90...
||| As I'm not sure whether this is an OE or an Outlook question, I'm
||| posting to both--I hope the method is correct for posting in two
||| groups without being considered an idiot. ;-)
|||
|||
||| I thought I had lost a bunch of old e-mail a reformat or two before
||| getting rid of my old computer but when I saw something about
||| DBXpress on this forum a day or two ago I decided to give it a try
||| and, sure enough, it found all the dbx files on my external hard
||| drive on which I'd saved my entire old data drive.
|||
||| On my new system, I'm using Outlook 2007 beta and didn't plan on
||| setting up OE as I need to be able to sync easily with my pda so I
||| was planning on waiting for Windows Mail to make the switch BUT, I
||| had hoped I could exports those old messages from OE to Outlook so
||| I'd have them for reference and the export seemed to work just fine
||| but when I tried to find them in Outlook, they don't show up. I
||| knew I'd lose the dates on them if I tried to import them into
||| Outlook but I wanted to see if they'd at least show up so I began
||| the import just to see what options would be there but I got the
||| prompt that Outlook found no other mail programs on my system.
|||
||| I'm assuming this is because I only have OE set up as my
||| newsreader, so, my question is, does anyone from either OE or
||| Outlook know if that's the only problem or might it be something to
||| do with the fact that I'm trying to export from OE to the beta
||| Outlook which didn't exist when OE's export utility was written?
|||
||| Thanks,
||| Tim