Can I move emails from Microsoft Office to Outlook Express on a new laptop?

John_Gray

sunni wrote: »

How do I copy the pst file? Where do I find it? (who's embarrassed lol)

Err, you could do a Search for *.PST (showing hidden folders)!

Mine is in
C:\Documents and Settings\<MyUserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst
but as always the PST name may vary, and the MyUserName is your own!

You may have to Show Hidden Folders to find it..

debitcardmayhem

John_Gray wrote: »

Err, you could do a Search for *.PST (showing hidden folders)!

Mine is in
C:\Documents and Settings\<MyUserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst
but as always the PST name may vary, and the MyUserName is your own!

You may have to Show Hidden Folders to find it..

sunni wrote: »

How do I copy the pst file? Where do I find it? (who's embarassed lol)

Hi thanx to John for finding it for us you might need to copy the whole outlook folder too! I am not too compos mentis for now see bottom of my signature 29 years and still the forum wins I hope you can sort this but post us back if not, I will have access to an outlaw account tomorrow so I can test bits if not

omen666

You will just need the PST

sunni

John_Gray wrote: »

Err, you could do a Search for *.PST (showing hidden folders)!

Mine is in
C:\Documents and Settings\<MyUserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst
but as always the PST name may vary, and the MyUserName is your own!

You may have to Show Hidden Folders to find it..

Well I done this and can't find the .pst file - have ticked the hidden folders option - all is there is Office Data Files - ie archive, backup and outlook - when i right clicked on outlook and send to my pen drive it said cannot copy outlook - the process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file

omen666

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829971

move your mail into it and then close outlook and copy over

sunni

omen666 wrote: »

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829971

move your mail into it and then close outlook and copy over

Great, thanks for this, have managed to copy over the .pst file :-) However, I can't import it into Thunderbird as it only seems to import from Outlook. So I've opened Outlook Express and trying to import the file there but it won't allow me to select the file? When I click 'browse' to find the file it only shows me folders to open and no actually files in the folders? I then copied it to my desktop and tried importing it from there, but when I click 'browse' again it just brings up desktop but doesn't show any files in it?

In Outlook Express I've clicked import / messages/ then when I select Microsoft Outlook it says messages cannot be imported from the MAPI client? Should I be selecting another program to import from?

debitcardmayhem

:hello: Sunshine , ok lets try another tack, install TB on your old PC (where Outlook is) and see if you can import them in to it there. From there we should be able to copy them to the lappy.

sunni

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

:hello: Sunshine , ok lets try another tack, install TB on your old PC (where Outlook is) and see if you can import them in to it there. From there we should be able to copy them to the lappy.

I can't go online now on the old pc and it aint wireless like my new lappy? Can I copy TB via pen drive?

debitcardmayhem

sunni wrote: »

I can't go online now on the old pc and it aint wireless like my new lappy? Can I copy TB via pen drive?

yes no problem , is the old pc wired ethernet to your router you could set up sharing, but then again putting the tb download on a pen will be quicker;)

sunni

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

yes no problem , is the old pc wired ethernet to your router you could set up sharing, but then again putting the tb download on a pen will be quicker;)

ok will download via the pen now and try to import them into tb - watch this space lol