My new computer has a Vista Home Premium OS. I wanted import my old email
messages, but the Mail program doesn't detect my OE6 files. How can I solve
this problem?

Thanks.

OE dbx files cannot be individually imported into Windows Mail.

Read the whole story he
Scroll down to the section
Importing from Outlook Express

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Report back on the outcome, good or bad so it assists others.

Regards,
Touch Base

"Peter Phillips" pfphillips wrote in message
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My new computer has a Vista Home Premium OS. I wanted import my old email
messages, but the Mail program doesn't detect my OE6 files. How can I solve
this problem?

Thanks.

See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx =includes info on Windows Mail in
Vista

The Vista Help article on this does NOT work!
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AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Peter Phillips wrote:
My new computer has a Vista Home Premium OS. I wanted import my old email
messages, but the Mail program doesn't detect my OE6 files. How can I
solve
this problem?

Thanks.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx =includes info on Windows Mail in
Vista

The Vista Help article on this does NOT work!
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Peter Phillips wrote:
My new computer has a Vista Home Premium OS. I wanted import my old email
messages, but the Mail program doesn't detect my OE6 files. How can I
solve
this problem?

Thanks.

Hi PA,
Long time no speak to.

That reference from oehelp.com is very similar but not identical to the
instructions given by MS in this link
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...7994f1033.mspx
For future reference what link should I look/use as I must admit I haven't
done any email transfers from XP to Vista and thought, having used oehelp
before in reference to OE that it would do the trick for the OP. I have done
plenty of XP OE imports from email directories when doing
repairs/re-installs and the like.

Regards,
Touch Base

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Touch Base wrote:
See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx =includes info on Windows Mail in
Vista

The Vista Help article on this does NOT [usually] work!

Peter Phillips wrote:
My new computer has a Vista Home Premium OS. I wanted import my old email
messages, but the Mail program doesn't detect my OE6 files. How can I
solve
this problem?

============================
Hi PA,
Long time no speak to.

That reference from oehelp.com is very similar but not identical to the
instructions given by MS in this link
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/53e5df86-5ffb-43cf-a0c8-164e3fe7994f1033.mspx
For future reference what link should I look/use as I must admit I haven't
done any email transfers from XP to Vista and thought, having used oehelp
before in reference to OE that it would do the trick for the OP. I have done
plenty of XP OE imports from email directories when doing
repairs/re-installs and the like.

QP
To import from the Outlook Express message store into the Windows Mail message store, do the following:

1. Create a [Vista] directory under the current user's Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible access permissions problems.

2. Copy all the dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.

3. Go to Edit | Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the [Read Only] attribute of the files is unchecked.

4. In Windows Mail go to File | Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.

5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory [so] that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.)

6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import.
/QP
Source: http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (middle to bottom of page)
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~Robear

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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[HTML FORMAT!]

Touch Base wrote:
See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx =includes info on Windows Mail in
Vista

The Vista Help article on this does NOT [usually] work!


Thanks, so I was on the right track

Regards,
Touch Base

Touch Base wrote:
See http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx =includes info on Windows Mail in
Vista

The Vista Help article on this does NOT [usually] work!

Thanks, so I was on the right track

Yes. This very serious bug (which is frequently discussed in Windows Mail
newsgroup) was reported and confirmed during Vista Beta testing. The bug
was marked "Closed - Will Not Fix" when all further Windows Mail (and OE)
development was stopped in June 2006...yes, ~6 months before Vista RTM was
released. The team responsible for Windows Mail (and OE) went on to further
develope Windows Live Mail (currently in Beta3).

It has been announced that Windows 7 will not have any default Mail Client:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10048142-56.html

How much do you wanna bet that all OEM machines come with the Windows Live
"all-in-one" installer preinstalled & with a desktop shortcut to it? eg
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