Vista - not all messages were imported

Hi,

I was trying to move my mesages from old laptop with Ms Outlook into new
computer with Vista Mail. I transferred them into OE on the old comp first
with no problems and then moved the whole folder to a location on the laptop
with Windows Mail and imported them from this folder using Import from OE6.
Everything would be great if not the fact that only approximately 10% of all
messages were imported (1300 messages in all folders). I repeated importing
and the results was the same. The problem is mainly with Inbox where the
smallest no of emails was imported. Does WM have some capacity limits in
terms of no of emals it can store or where could be the problem and how can I
fix so I have all of my old emails in WM?
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/daissy

Hi Daissy,

You might take a look at this site to see if it will help you on this.

backup

Shawn

Hi Brink,

That's exactly the website I used for guidance when I was importing the
messages and the problem occured anyway.
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/daissy


"brink" wrote:

Daissy,

I'm not sure why it didn't. Did you check the "(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.)" from the site?

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Yes, I did, otherwise none of messages would be imported I guess. Definitely
there must be the reason behind why WM chose to import only a part out of all
messages, I hope to find with your help
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/daissy


"brink" wrote:

Daissy,

It is hard to say with Windows Mail. It's message store is so sensitive. You might try importing them again to see if they will come over this time. One possibility is that there may be some corruption in the DBX files, or that all of the "Read only" attributes have not been unchecked in the DBX file's Properties. Wish I new more about OE to help better.

Shawn

All read only attributes have been removed. I'll try to do the whole
exporting-importing process again to see if it helps. What WM does now when
importing from dbx files, it says it copies 1,2, ...up to 20 messages out of
200 and then it says it has finished although the remaining 180 were not
copied. I remember that when I was importing for the first time I cancelled
the operation at the beginning, maybe it somewhow corrupted the files, so
I'll transfer them again from the outlook. Hope it will help. I'll let you
know in 3 days once I have access to my old computer.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
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/daissy


"brink" wrote:

Daissy,

That sounds possible. Hope it works for you.

Shawn

"daissy" <daissy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If that doesn't work you can use DBXtract to extract the messages from the
DBX files as individual EML messages. They can then be dragged into a
folder in an open Windows Mail.

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
www.fjsmjs.com
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"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" <franksaunders@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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DBXtract ($7): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
There is also a free alternative to DBXtract, though not for DBXpress:
http://www.insideoe.com/resources/tools.htm#macallan

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
www.fjsmjs.com
Do not send email