email file conversion - help please

[slimtim]

anyone know how I can convert outlook express .dbx files to outlook .pst files?

Thanks!

[codprawn]

Why what are you trying to do?

[roycruse]

As far as I know you cant.

But you can import all the settings, mail, and addressbook entries from outlook express into outlook.

[benc]

try this?

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Appl..._21208051.html

[roycruse]

You have to pay

[benc]

Originally Posted by roycruse

You have to pay

I must say I havent tried it, but experts exchange is normally good for answers... had a quick look through, all seems simple enough...

Below i've copy and pasted what was on the link I sent


FROM http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;257499

1.Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.

2.In the Named box, type *.dbx, and then click Find Now. Note the path of the file name and location of your mail folders. These are the files that end in *.dbx.

NOTE: If you use identities, each user has their own mail folder.

3.Copy or back up the mail folders to your backup media by using your own backup program or Microsoft Backup (MSbackup) that is included with the operating system.

NOTE: If the size of the mail folders are less than 1.4 megabytes (MB), copy them to a disk one at a time, and then move them to the second computer.

4.Create a folder called "Mail" (without quotation marks) on the computer that is receiving the transported mail folders.

5.Restore or paste the mail folders into the Mail folder that you created. Note to include the Folders.dbx file when you copy from the first computer. This file is necessary for the import functions in Outlook Express.

6.After you have moved all the mail folders, including the Folder.dbx file, to the second computer, use the import function in Outlook Express 5.

7.Start Outlook Express 5.

8.On the File menu, click Import, and then click Messages.

9.Click Microsoft Outlook Express 5.

10.Click Import mail from OE5 store directory, and then locate the mail folder that you created.

11.When you are receive the prompt to select the mail folder that you want to import, click Import all of the Mail Folders listed. This merges e-mail messages into any of the default folders and creates all other folders that are not default on this computer.



Then from the second reply on: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Appl..._21208051.html

Lets say you have one pst already in your OL
You can import the emails from outlook express to get the second PST.
Now you should see 2 PSTs in your Outlook.
Just copy the emails (select all or CTRL + A) from one PST and paste in another or just drag and drop.. Now you would have one PST with all emails and other data..

Remove the other PST and now you got one big PST..

[roycruse]

Thays importing which is what I said in post #3 but wuith the clkick by click instructions

[slimtim]

thanks for the replies chaps.

I will have a look at those techniques when i get round to it. I think i will have to install outlook express as well, read the emails then export to outlook.

I have just changed PCs with outlook express on my old one and outlook on my new one which was the reason for my question.

Thanks

tim

[Pete7]

What stops you e mailing them to a second e mail address (perhaps hotmail) and then back to your outlook account ?

Pete

[slimtim]

theres about 2000 of them and i have now taken the hard drive out of the old computer and put it in the new one!

[Mark Halliday]

Originally Posted by slimtim

i have now taken the hard drive out of the old computer and put it in the new one!

Tim
Stick it back, call it D:\ (set the jumpers to "slave") and transfer them from there. (Unless its bust of course).

[slimtim]

not sure what you're getting at mark but this is what my situation is:

My old computer had two hard drives in. The 20gig original and an 80gig I had installed. Windows was running off the 80gig so that is what had the outlook express dbx files on.

I have now bought a spangly new mesh computer which has a 250gig hdd in as the master and I have put my old 80 gig in as the slave. Trouble is, I now use outlook as my email proggy on the master drive which as far as I know can't read dbx files!

I think the best way around the problem is to install outlook express on the master drive, use it to read the old dbx files, then import the emails into outlook.

Thanks for all the help guys.

Tim

[roycruse]

Originally Posted by slimtim

I think the best way around the problem is to install outlook express on the master drive, use it to read the old dbx files, then import the emails into outlook.

Correct - that is your simplest option - that's what I would do anyway.

Other way you could have done it was to use the file and settings transfer wizard on the old machine to export the emails and then import them on the new one - but you probably would still have needed to install outlook express.

[MikeCC]

I moved a number of email files from Outlook Express to Outlook a while ago with multiple identites etc - from one computer to another. Just copied the files onto CD and then imported into Outlook on the new one. so you don't need Outlook, just access to the files.

I found out how to do it from the Microsoft website. I don't have a link but I searched for something like "import outlook express files" in the Outlook section.

Incredibly for a Microsoft migration, it all went without a hitch.

Good luck.

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by slimtim

I think the best way around the problem is to install outlook express on the master drive, use it to read the old dbx files, then import the emails into outlook

That's exactly what to do. Outlook Express is probably installed already along with IE. Once you configure Outlook Express to use your old email files, the new Outlook will know where to import them from. I've just run through the process on my new PC, imported about 11,000 emails from outlook Express 6 to Outlook 2002, so let me know if you need any more info.

Originally Posted by MikeCC

...Incredibly for a Microsoft migration, it all went without a hitch.

It's supposed to! If it doesn't, you're doing it wrong