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[Closed] IT help - copying e-mail personal folders

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So I've bought a new laptop and have got everything over that I need to from my old one except my e-mail personal folders.

Old laptop has Outlook 2007 so the folders are a .pst file. New laptop has Windows Mail (Vista) which can't import .pst

Is there a way around this at all?


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:40 pm
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i'd suggest that the best way around it would be to downgrade your new laptop OS to XP from vista!
but that's probably not practical for you; one way of doing it is to install a 30 day trial version of outlook on your vista machine, copy the pst file over, open it with outlook and then import it in windows mail...


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:47 pm
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That's the problem though, I've copied the .pst file over and that's fine, it's just that Windows Mail cannot recognise the .pst format (bizarrely!).


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:53 pm
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That's why he suggested installing Outlook
Then Vista mail [or whatever it's called] will be able to import from outlook


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:55 pm
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if you install outlook as well though, then use that to open the pst file first, you can go [i]file>import>messages>ms outlook[/i] in windows mail and it apparently works.
never done it myself though...


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:58 pm
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Ah I see, thanks!!
STW comes up trumps again 🙂


 
Posted : 07/02/2009 3:59 pm

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