Downgrading back to XP and OE

After nearly one year of trying to become a "fan," I have given up on Vista
and have bought a new disk for my laptop and installed XP on it. I need to
bring back all the emails from WLM Beta on my Vista hard disk. I assume it
will be an import into OE on the XP disk.

When I locate my email data files on the Vista disk (mounted externally via
USB), the filenames are not evident unless I double click on each file. An
example of a single message is a file named 00107FF2-0000014.eml. This might
make it difficult to manage importing my various files and folders in OE?
Should I just trust that I can import them and they will show up with
readable message info?

Also, all my contacts reside in a Contacts folder with *.Contract files.
Will I be able to import them into a .WAB?

If anyone has any tips as to how to do this, I would appreciate hearing from
you.

TIA.

Tom

I think the eml messages can be dropped into OE.
The name will be changed from a number to a name.
If you have updated to the latest WLM, you can export the contacts as a csv
file and import into OE.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Tom Brown" <TomBrown@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You do realise that Windows Live Mail works on XP as well as Vista
don't you? By the way, WLMail is out of beta now (12.0.1606).
--
Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"Tom Brown" <TomBrown@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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No, I did not realize that WLM would work on XP. I'll give that a try
because I have had no luck importing the WLM emails into OE. I can't export
the emails because the Vista drive will no longer boot. It works fine as a
USB external drive so my data is intact.

I am wondering what the advantage of WLM over OE is?

Tom


"Peter.R" wrote:

"Tom Brown" <TomBrown@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6806AD6A-33E3-4E32-A1A5-3B2FB519E18F@xxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NONE that I have found so far.

Doug W.
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Well, I can offer a couple of observations.

The first thing I notice is that WLM takes a lot longer to begin than OE.
OE was nearly instantaneous but WLM definitely takes quite a few seconds on
the same machine.

One big advantage for someone downgrading from Vista to XP, if you have
already trashed the Vista disk (that's why I changed) you can copy the email
data files directly from the Vista disk to the XP disk but OE will not read
the WLM/Vista files or allow them to be inported but WLM/XP directly reads
them.

I think I am back in business on WLM/XP.

Tom


"Roy" wrote: