Have a new a computer with Vista and Windows Mail.
Have an old computer with Windows XP and Out Look Express 6.
How do I get my email message files from the old computer to the new one?
So far all I have managed to do is get the files (.pst) copied to a thumb drive.

Hi,

In Windows Mail, go to File -> Import -> Messages -> Microsoft Outlook Express 6 -> select Import Mail from an OE6 Store Directory -> then you should get a Browse button

Also, see this

Migrate from Outlook Express to Windows Mail | Windows Vista for Beginners

Hope that helps

SIW2

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Outlook Express cannot produce .pst files.
Only Outlook can. Review what you've got before making
plans to migrate to a new platform.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"hfr46" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:32a97f5b9dcc3e0f9fa239c67cee36c8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

>
> Have a new a computer with Vista and Windows Mail.
> Have an old computer with Windows XP and Out Look Express 6.
> How do I get my email message files from the old computer to the new
> one?
> So far all I have managed to do is get the files (.pst) copied to a
> thumb drive.
>
>
> --
> hfr46

If you have a PST file you weren't using Outlook Express, you were using
the Office Outlook program.

If you really were using Outlook Express, you need to be looking for DBX
files.

Backing up Windows Mail and importing from Outlook Express to Windows
Mail
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
Import messages into Windows Mail from Outlook Express:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com:80/...7994f1033.mspx

Also, the Vista Windows Mail (WM) program is different than the Windows
Live Mail (WLM) program.

For help with the Vista Windows Mail (WM) program, use this Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail

You can also get to the newsgroup via this web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx
There select Windows Vista, then Windows Mail.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"hfr46" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:32a97f5b9dcc3e0f9fa239c67cee36c8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

>
> Have a new a computer with Vista and Windows Mail.
> Have an old computer with Windows XP and Out Look Express 6.
> How do I get my email message files from the old computer to the new
> one?
> So far all I have managed to do is get the files (.pst) copied to a
> thumb drive.
>
>
> --
> hfr46

Hi

If you both Outlook and Outlook express , transfer to Outlook Express first, and then to WM or WLM. see

Outlook to Windows Mail

SIW2

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:48:10 -0500, hfr46 wrote:

> Have a new a computer with Vista and Windows Mail.
> Have an old computer with Windows XP and Out Look Express 6.
> How do I get my email message files from the old computer to the new
> one?
> So far all I have managed to do is get the files (.pst) copied to a
> thumb drive.

Go back to bed. Get up, once more. Look carefully at what you are using,
*AND* where you are posting. You have .pst files, so you don't have MS
Outlook Express, but rather MS Outlook. You have Windows Mail, not Windows
Live Mail, so you *should* be asking in the appropriate group:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail

If I have missed something, it is because you failed to describe what you
are using with any degree of accuracy. But you are allowed to blame
Microsoft for this; they are the ones using such a screwball system of
application nomenclature.

MS Outlook Express != MS Outlook
Windows Live Mail != Windows Mail

MS Outlook will run under Windows Vista.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Thanks to all.
The 1st link SIW2 provided hit the nail on the head and I was able to transfer everything last night.

Thanks
hfr46

Hi hfr46,

Glad you got it sorted out

SIW2

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Same 2 computers but new transfer problem.
Using Windows Easy Transfer to transfer files from old to new via USB external hard drive. Old computer (Windows XP) stores the files on ehd as Files/USMT2.UNC however new computer (Vista) apparently is looking for files to be stored in a SavedData.MIG file.

Hi,

Did you put The Vista dvd in the Xp computer and click transfer files and settings etc ?

Then on the new i.e Vista computer, Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Windows Easy Transfer etc.

SIW2