HELP !!! OE 5.5 messages scrambled in xfer to new XP/OE6 system !!!
From: John Zanath (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04
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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 21:09:13 -0800
Gentlepeople:
HELP !!! HELP !!! HELP !!! I desperately need to know --
in detail! -- how to move mail messages from OE 5.5 under
W-95 (on an old laptop that's close to dying, and having
NO CD writer!) to OE 6 on my new XP machine -- WITHOUT
getting the mail from the like-named folders (e.g., "in
box", "sent items") in all 4 of my mailboxes merged into a
single folder.
I know I have to move them through Outlook as a middle-man
(whose "help" materials are not very helpful, or the
system is just too enormous to make it easy to learn
enough of the right stuff). And I did export the messages
from OE 5.5, and paid to have the huge single resulting
file piped over to the XP machine. BUT, I only used
one "profile" or whatever Outlook calls it (I just now
tried to export/import to see what that identity is
called, but it wouldn't come up - maybe only under
OE5.5?). I gather now that I should maybe have specified
4 different ones, to create four separate files, somewhere
along the line.
Anyway - I sense that there's no way to easily unscramble
the messages, because I can't get Outlook to show a "to:"
column in the imported files list for the various
folders. Nor do I know if it would be easy to bulk
cut/paste by sorted "To:' field even if it can be made to
show.
I'm a financially struggling post-9/11 aerospace
unemployment case, and would be happy to save the extra
consultant's fees for piping yet more data over (or
burning a CD-ROM) via the four separate files which I
probably should have created via separate exports. SO,
Question 1: Can I get Outlook to show the "to:" names for
each message, so I can sort on this column, and do a mass
delete of those I don't want to move - or would I be
better advised to try something like this in OE6.0, where
I find I can call up the "to:" field as a new column? (I
did a test move of one folder from the smallest of the
mailboxes, by moving the file via cassette, and found that
extra column capability by accident).
But if I have to, or if it would involve saving many hours
of work,
Question 2): what exact steps would I have to take to get
separate export files made for each mailbox, and import
them into 4 separate "profiles", or areas, or whatever, in
Outlook, so that I could then import them into their
corresponding mailboxes on the new system (OE 6)? I have
several thousand emails among the largest three of the
four accounts (involving eBay and Amazon sales records),
all jumbled together and not all immediately evident, by
recipient name, as to where they belong.
Thanks, many thanks for anyone kind enough to list out the
main steps, or at least make clear the requisite concepts
and their associated menus, wizards, etc., so that I can
wrap this nightmare up and get on with my survival-level
professional activities.
Sincerely,
John J. Zanath
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