Vista - Windows easy transfer and importing e-mail?????????

Hi you all

Hi really hope someone can help me out.

I used Windows easy transfer in Vista, to save my settings and files,
formatted my HDD, and installed WIN 7.
I then used easy transfer to restore my files.
After that I realised Win 7 don't have an e-mail program, so I installed
Windows Live mail (2007 IIRC, not the new version)

But now I don't have any of my e-mails restored, and I cant find a way to
get them.

Can anyone please help me to get them back. I cannot afford to lose these
mails, and I did not export it as I assumed all would be well with easy
transfer.

Thanks in advance

I don't understand why you did not install the latest version of Windows Live Mail.

This sounds more like a Windows 7/ Easy Transfer issue. As such, you
may be better helped here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/VanderMolen


"boerriaan" <boerriaan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A98D928E-F29E-4CE9-A864-EC66C6F467A7@xxxxxx

If you were using pop3 and formatted the hard drive without having backed up the messages in your prior email client(Windows Mail
?) to a different location than the hard drive that was formatted, then they are gone.

If you 'easy transerred' your Windows files to an external device(external drive or cd/dvd) using Easy Transfer...search for the
root folder containing Local folders, Inbox, etc and *.eml files. Copy the files to the Win7 machine and browse to those folders to
import the messages.


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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"boerriaan" <boerriaan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A98D928E-F29E-4CE9-A864-EC66C6F467A7@xxxxxx

Yip, used pop3 on windows mail.

I did "easy transfer" all files and settings to an external hard drive. It
is then saved as a .MIG file.

I'm sorry, but I'm not very clued up, winston. can you maybe acces the root
folder you're mentioning.
The only file on the ext drive is the .mig file created by easy transfer.

Thanks for all the help guys

"...winston" wrote:

uhm, I mean - can you maybe tell me how to access the root folder -
sorry - typo...

"boerriaan" wrote:

Unless I have not understood the help files for easy transfer, the easy
transfer only works to move files and settings to a Vista computer.
If you want your emails, you need to easy transfer to a Vista computer.
--
Ron Sommer
MVP-Mail

"boerriaan" <boerriaan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7BE69DF5-5625-4123-8AD4-F938CB422A5E@xxxxxx

Sorry...I am not sure one can access the contents of the mig file from Windows or an email client import 'browse' function.

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"boerriaan" <boerriaan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2EAB764B-F311-4827-87C8-42E23A634240@xxxxxx

Hi,

I don't know waht will be in the .mig , but you could use this to try and get at the contents:

DOWNLOAD : Microsoft SaveData MIG Extraction Tool for Windows Easy Transfer Torrent

Hope it helps

SIW2

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u6Ygey6HKHA.5256@xxxxxxOh isn't that just awfully useful!

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Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
remember the darn question

Just a thought. What e mail programme were you using before WLM? If you were
using Outlook Express on a previous computer that message store may be
intact and you may be able to salvage and re import some of those older
messages.

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Kind Regards

Chris

"boerriaan" <boerriaan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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