Outlook express to Outlook 03
Senteno@discussions.microsoft.com Michael Senteno
way to import all my settings and address book and such automatically to
2003. Or will this be a manual process?
Brian Tillman
When you install OL 2003, I believe the installation process will ask you if
you want to transfer your data from OE. I believe that's not the optimum
choice, for the reason I'll state below.
To transfer your account settings, in Outlook click File>Import and
Export>Import Internet Mail Account Settings>Next. To transfer your address
book to Outlook, in Outlook, click File>Import and Export>Import Internet
Mail and Addresses. Select Outlook Express and UNCHECK "Import Mail" (do
that in the next step). Click Next. Select the duplicate handling you want
and click FInish.
To transfer your messages, in Outlook Express click File>Export>Messages.
Click OK to the warning popup. Select the folders you wish to transfer (or
leave the "All folders" default selected) and click OK. I suggest this
approach (exporting messages from OE to Outlook) because it leaves the
Received time stamp intact. Importing from OE using Outlook would change
the Received time stamp to be the date and time of import instead of the
original.
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Brian Tillman
tokyojim
I read your answer to Michael Senteno, but it didn't work for me. I
copied my address book from Outlook Express to a disk. My old computer is now
dead and I cannot access it, but the copy of my address book won't open. I
asked Outlook to import it, but it tells me that it is in use by another
program and that it cannot open the file. I can't figure what other program
is using it since it is stored on a rewritable disk that I just inserted. I
tried copying the fil to my computer and then accessing it and got the same
message. I have two copies of my address book on the disk. One is named
Administrator and the other is Jim May(my name). So I"m not sure what to do.
Even if I can just print out that file, that would be great, but of course
transferring them electronically is first choice. Any suggestions?
Jim
tokyojim
it, I'm told that it has been locked by another application so I guess this
is the problem. I have no idea how to get around this or even what
application locked it.
Jim
Brian Tillman
> I copied my address book from Outlook Express to a disk.
Exactly what file did you copy and how?
> My old
> computer is now dead and I cannot access it, but the copy of my
> address book won't open.
With what application are you trying to open it? What steps are you using
to open it?
> I asked Outlook to import it, but it tells
> me that it is in use by another program and that it cannot open the
> file.
Outlook can't import a Windows Address Book directly, if that's the address
book to which you refer.
> I can't figure what other program is using it since it is
> stored on a rewritable disk that I just inserted.
Copy it to your hard drive first and remove the read-only attribute. I
believe that what you're seeing is because the file is read-only and so the
application attempting to open it believes it is write-locked by another
program.
> I tried copying the
> fil to my computer and then accessing it and got the same message.
Remove the read-only attribute.
> I have two copies of my address book on the disk. One is named
> Administrator and the other is Jim May(my name). So I"m not sure
> what to do. Even if I can just print out that file, that would be
> great, but of course transferring them electronically is first
> choice. Any suggestions?
Assuming you have WAB files, after following the above instructions for
each, open each in turn with the Windows Address Book application and see
what they contain. Keep the one you want.
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Brian Tillman
tokyojim
> > I copied my address book from Outlook Express to a disk.
>
> Exactly what file did you copy and how?
I guess I copied the address book file. I did a search for ".wab" files.
> With what application are you trying to open it? What steps are you using
> to open it?
I followed the steps in your last e-mail. I tried to use Outlook 2003 to
import the files I had copied to a disk.
> > I asked Outlook to import it, but it tells me that it is in use by another program and that it cannot open the file.
> Outlook can't import a Windows Address Book directly, if that's the address
> book to which you refer.
Oh. No wonder it didn't work.
> > I can't figure what other program is using it since it is stored on a rewritable disk that I just inserted.
>
> Copy it to your hard drive first and remove the read-only attribute. I
> believe that what you're seeing is because the file is read-only and so the
> application attempting to open it believes it is write-locked by another
> program.
I already tried that and that didn't work. I even removed the read only
attribute as you said but still got the same message.
> > I have two copies of my address book on the disk. One is named
> > Administrator and the other is Jim May(my name). So I"m not sure
> > what to do. Even if I can just print out that file, that would be
> > great, but of course transferring them electronically is first
> > choice. Any suggestions?
>
> Assuming you have WAB files, after following the above instructions for
> each, open each in turn with the Windows Address Book application and see
> what they contain. Keep the one you want.
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> Brian Tillman
OK, opening it with the Windows Address book application worked. When I
first tried to do that, I was told that it was not the default vcard viewer.
So after I made it the default vcard viewer it worked. Now I can open it,
but am still not sure how to import it into Outlook. I'll go back to the
last e-mail and try to follow the instructions once again. I thought I just
tried that with no success, but maybe I did something wrong. Thanks Brian.
At the very least I have access to the old addresses. Hopefully I won't have
to re-enter them by hand, but it is not impossible.
tj
>
tokyojim
I followed the instructions below. I highlighted the folder which
contains my address book, but when I tell it to import the addresses it just
tells me that 0 addresses have been transferred. For some reason it doesn't
seem to do it.
I recently purchased on old used compuuter - a duplicate of the old one I
had - and I plan to put the old hard drive in it and I should be able to
access everything again when I get the computer. I'll try the export process
when I get it and can access Outlook Express.
Jim
Brian Tillman
> OK, opening it with the Windows Address book application worked.
> When I first tried to do that, I was told that it was not the default
> vcard viewer. So after I made it the default vcard viewer it worked.
> Now I can open it, but am still not sure how to import it into
> Outlook.
Open Outlook and click File>Import and Export>Internet Mail and
Addresses>Next. Select Outlook Express, uncheck Import Mail and Import
Rules and click Next. Select the duplicate handling you want and click
Finish.
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Brian Tillman
Stew
I read your answer to Michael Senteno's question, on how to transfer mails,
address books etc, from OE 6 to Outloom 2003. I have been trying to do the
same thing myself. I have tried exporting from OE6, and importing from
Outlook 2003. It works, however I'm only getting a small percentage of the
emails. for example my inbox in OE6 has over 2000 mails in it, and it's onlt
transferring 37 of them, and a similar ratio of my sent box. Why won't
either program allow the whole transfer from OE6 to Out 2003? Any ideas?
Stewart
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Brian Tillman
Are the messages all within the same identity?
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Brian Tillman