PUNCTUATION SAVES LIVES

I have Googled madly for the solution to my issue, and I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer, so I think this may be more complicated than I would have hoped, BUT there must be a way to do it.

I used Outlook Express for ten years. I have ten years' worth of e-mails in .DBX files.

Windows 7 does not support Outlook Express. Instead, it has Windows Live Mail. I may use Windows Live Mail. I may use Thunderbird. People like Thunderbird, right? I may use Outlook, I don't know.

Nearly all import solutions I have seen involve having OE installed on the same computer. How can I import all my e-mails with just the files?

Okay, according to this page, Windows Live Mail should be able to import my files with no problem? I hope that's true. And, ah, then I can export to Outlook (when I tried to import to Outlook years ago, it reset the Received date and time to the time of the import, which was stupid, so I never used it, but now that I use Outlook at work, maybe I want to use it at home, I don't know?). If Windows Live Mail will take my damn e-mails with no problem, I may just use it. Anyone have an opinion on it? I like that it apparently has an optional conversation view. Thunderbird can do things as well and is more customizable, but after years of OE, I don't really ask for much from a mail program, you know? I don't know what I want/need. Windows Live Mail also has a calendar (as does Outlook), but can they sync with my Google Calendar? I don't need more calendars.

back up your OE files first and put them on an external hard drive.

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you might need to do OE --> Outlook before you can import your email files.

Oh, my files are already backed up. For Outlook, actually, I would have to import to Windows Live Mail and then export to Outlook, but I may just use Outlook to keep my personal work e-mails. I think that was the issue I was having, actually, when I thought maybe I couldn't get Outlook. But I think I will have it.

I think also maybe that Thunderbird can't easily take my .dbx files, and I was considering using that program. But Windows Live Mail appears to be able to import my mail directly, so I can't remember what I was so worried about. I just hope it works correctly.

I had this problem, and apparently it's because I had bought stuff with two different IDs (although I'm not sure how), and I could never fix it, although I didn't go so far as to contact Apple about it. I think megan walker had a similar issue.

I only have the one ID. If it would just tell me which apps I'll lose, I could make a more informed decision.

I've been using Thunderbird as my backup, but with any setting I can find it has one flaw - it is find as a picture of Gmail's current state, but useless for archiving. If I delete something in gmail, thunderbird deletes it on the local client.

So I decided to give Gmail Backup a try. Only, it turns out Gmail backup backs up each email as a seperate file. I have 2 Gigabytes of gmail data. Understandably by the time all that was downloaded as separate files it slowed down by computer something awful. I uninstalled gmail backup and delete those files and deleted the restore point that help a copy of those 100,000 files or whatever in a single directory.

So I guess the next step is to backup thunderbird by copying to mbox file as a form of archiving, then start purging the absurd number of emails I have on gmail.

Huh. That's weird. Is that a Gmail thing? Because I have a Yahoo email address and use Thunderbird and it doesn't delete items in the inbox once I've deleted them from the server...

Maybe I just have a setting wrong on Thunderbird.

OK. I have an IMAP connection, not a pop connection. I already used 2 gig of my 250 gig download with Gmail backup, so I won't mess with it at the moment. But next month I'll change to Pop, and see if I can keep it from deleting when downloading.

I'm certain it is possible to change to POP without redownloading everything, but in case I mess something up, and need to redownload, I'll wait.

TB,

did you see this link?

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