Re: If I copy the files, can I import selectively?
From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:25:57 -0400
Peter, will you please stick to one of your many threads here? You risk
being igonored.
-- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spyware.mspx anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote: > I guess I can go to identity Wife, export/copy all the > mail message files into a directory like C:\Wife > messages\ where I can find the things, then import them > into the Husband identity, right? > > At that point, can I selectively import the messages -- > only importing messages after a certain date? (Or could I > selectively export them?) > > Once I've consolidated them into a single identity, can I > then delete the other identity? (That's an XP question, > not an OE question, I guess, but do you know the answer?) > Can I then rename the Husband identity to Wife? If so, > how do I delete identities, and how do I rename identities? > > Thanks, > > Peter Jordan > peterjordan@mindspring.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> OK. First determine the location of your existing > message store folder for >> the identity you wish to continue using. Now do a File/Search for all >> files ending with DBX. Those that are located in some other folder >> other than your default message store are the ones you want to import. >> (in Windows 2000 and XP, the DBX files are marked Hidden by the >> operating system so you will have to modify the Search criteria to >> include searching for Hidden files) >> >> You should be able to do so by opening Outlook Express, click >> File/Import/Messages and select From a Message Store and point to the >> location of the folder where the older (i.e., your wife's messages) are >> located. >> -- >> Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express >> Please reply only to newsgroup. >> >> >> "Peter Jordan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> > wrote in message >> news:097701c46e68$69b3ed30$a301280a@phx.gbl... >>> Hello -- I mistakenly set up two identities in XP and >>> have discovered that the Outlook Express accounts are >>> different for the two identities -- so I have some >>> messages under one identity and some messages under the >>> other. If I log on under my name, I get one set of OE >>> inbox/sentmail messages; if I log on under my wife' name, >>> I get another set of them (dating back to early in June >>> when I backed up the whole OE account from another PC and >>> restored them onto the laptop my wife is currently using). >>> >>> I want to delete one of the identities and consolidate >>> all of the OE messages into one account/ one identity. >>> >>> On July 12, Jim Pickering suggested that I "import the >>> messages uing OE's File/Import/Messages and select from >>> an identity." But when I go to File/Import/Messages, >>> then choose "Import Mail from an OE6 identity," all I see >>> is "Main identity" -- how do I import OE messages from >>> another identity? What am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Peter Jordan >>> peterjordan@mindspring.com >> >> .
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