Most of the time, the email is stored on the server, and thus you don't need to move anything, just "reconnect" with the new machine. But, if you have created "local" folders in Outlook Express, you need to follow some very careful steps to import the email to the new machine. How do you know if you have "local folders" - well, first, YOU would have created them! (Or moved files to existing local folders). They show up on the left side of Outlook Express, under the heading {ready for it ...} "Local Folders". There are some standard ones {Inbox, Drafts, etc.} - if you have some that you created, then this page is for you! (Actually, it should cause no harm to do this, even if you don't have local folders .. better safe than sorry!)
Note : This assumes you will have your Outlook Express working properly (the first time you run it on the new machine, you may find the "Internet Connection Wizard" popping up. Follow the steps to connect Outlook Express to the LTU server if possible before you do this procedure. Once that is done, you don't need to be "online" to do this, all changes are made locally.
| Backup the Outlook Express email
folder
The first step of importing the stored email is to make a copy of the email folder. Finding it is another matter - ha! Take a look at the image to the right .. this shows a sample directory tree showing the location of the Outlook Express mail folder (your machine will obviously have YOUR username, and it will have a DIFFERENT weird letter/number folder name. Copy that entire Outlook Express folder to a DIFFERENT (temporary) location on the new machine. Then follow the import directions below. |
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| Importing Local Email
messages
A) Start OUTLOOK EXPRESS |
You do NOT need to be online to do this .. we are just pulling in the locally stored messages. |
| B) Go to the FILE menu, then to IMPORT, and then MESSAGES. |
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| C) Select Outlook Express 6. |
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| D) Choose the OE6 STORE DIRECTORY.
(That folder we copied above is called the "store folder" for Outlook Express - we will point to the "new" location of the temporary folder you put on the new machine.) |
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| E) Now we have to go find the location of the copied folder from the old machine. This example shows that I had put the files {from that folder in the first image above} in a folder called oe_email, underneath the folder @move. When you get this dialog box, click the browse button to go find the copied folder .. then click OK. |
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| F) You probably want to choose ALL FOLDERS. (But, notice that you could pick which individual folders you needed.) |
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| G) That should be it .. you'll see the "import
messages" box, with the progress.
Note - be sure you only do this Import method ONCE .. if you try to import again, you'll get a duplicate of every message - yikes! (You would have to delete the messages in each local folder, then reimport.) |
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| H) How do I reconnect to the LTU server to connect to
the server-stored email?
Follow the link to the right to connect the Outlook Express from the new laptop to the server. |
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