Save Emails for Transfer

Hello Community,

I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop and
desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business version. I
have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista desktop.
How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the partition and
reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail with
me.

I am a PhD student so my email documents are extremely valuable and I cannot
take the risk of losing them. I've done this before when going from an older
XP machine to a newer one, but I've never done this trying to go from Vista
back to XP.

Any step by step help is appreciated.

Many Thanks,
Donneda

Donneda;700965 Wrote:
> I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop
> and
> desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business
> version. I
> have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
> desktop.
> How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the
> partition and
> reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
> with
> me.

Hello Donneda,

You can find your email store here.
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Mail\Local Folders

You can copy them to the flash drive for safe keeping.

Hope that's what you need.

Gary


--
garysgold

Vista Home Premiumx32 SP1
Q6600 Quad Core 2.40 GHz
4 GB Ram 800 MHz
Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB
500 GB HD
Exp. Index=5.5

I don't understand what you think going back to XP will do for you.
Depending on what you mean by syncing, Vista can do most anything that
XP can do.

Also, laptops manufactured for Vista are very difficult to retrofit to XP
because XP drivers are often not available for that newer hardware.
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Donneda" <> wrote in message news:78E3442D-ECD5-4D21-A6D8-...
> Hello Community,
>
> I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop and
> desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business version. I
> have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista desktop.
> How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the partition and
> reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail with
> me.
>
> I am a PhD student so my email documents are extremely valuable and I cannot
> take the risk of losing them. I've done this before when going from an older
> XP machine to a newer one, but I've never done this trying to go from Vista
> back to XP.
>
> Any step by step help is appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Donneda

Ok. When I go to C:\Users\(username)\ I don't have the option for
AppData. Is there any other link for this option? I have looked several
places. I can save my "recent emails" but that only covers the last couple of
weeks.

What else?

"garysgold" wrote:

>
> Donneda;700965 Wrote:
> > I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop
> > and
> > desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business
> > version. I
> > have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
> > desktop.
> > How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the
> > partition and
> > reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
> > with
> > me.
>
> Hello Donneda,
>
> You can find your email store here.
> C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Mail\Local Folders
>
> You can copy them to the flash drive for safe keeping.
>
> Hope that's what you need.
>
> Gary
>
>
> --
> garysgold
>
> Vista Home Premiumx32 SP1
> Q6600 Quad Core 2.40 GHz
> 4 GB Ram 800 MHz
> Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB
> 500 GB HD
> Exp. Index=5.5
>

Well, when I had XP on both my laptop and my desktop, I was able to use a
parallel cable to synchronize my files between the two. When I bought my new
desktop it came with Vista Home. I was informed that the synchronizing option
was only available if I purchased the near $200 Vista Business upgrade. So
for the last year, I've had to use a flash drive to keep my files updated on
both machines which is becoming very cumbersome and confusing.

My laptop has XP on it. Instead of upgrading both machines to Vista Business
for $400, I thought that it would be easier to downgrade my desktop to XP so
that I could get my synchronization working again. But, I don't want to do
that at the risk of losing my emails.

If you know of a way to synch my Windows XP laptop to my Vista Home Premium
desktop, please let me know. My bottom line challenge is that I do a lot of
work on my laptop and desktop independently and really need to be able to
have the files correspond.

I work full-time while finishing my PhD. So I use both machines and want my
files to all match.

Any help you can offer is appreciated.

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> I don't understand what you think going back to XP will do for you.
> Depending on what you mean by syncing, Vista can do most anything that
> XP can do.
>
> Also, laptops manufactured for Vista are very difficult to retrofit to XP
> because XP drivers are often not available for that newer hardware.
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
>
>
> "Donneda" <> wrote in message news:78E3442D-ECD5-4D21-A6D8-...
> > Hello Community,
> >
> > I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop and
> > desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business version. I
> > have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista desktop.
> > How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the partition and
> > reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail with
> > me.
> >
> > I am a PhD student so my email documents are extremely valuable and I cannot
> > take the risk of losing them. I've done this before when going from an older
> > XP machine to a newer one, but I've never done this trying to go from Vista
> > back to XP.
> >
> > Any step by step help is appreciated.
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Donneda
>
>
>

Windows by default will not display files or folders with the
'hidden' attribute. To change that, with Windows Explorer open,
press Alt to bring up the menu bar, then Tools, Folder Options,
View, click the button for "Show hidden files and folders."
While you're there, uncheck "Hide extensions..."
You should now be able to navigate to AppData.

Frankly, if all you want to do is backup your mail, I would do so
from within Windows Mail: File, Export, Messages.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Donneda" <> wrote in message news1CF6F07-D7B7-4BB9-A83C-...
> Ok. When I go to C:\Users\(username)\ I don't have the option for
> AppData. Is there any other link for this option? I have looked several
> places. I can save my "recent emails" but that only covers the last couple of
> weeks.
>
> What else?
>
> "garysgold" wrote:
>
>>
>> Donneda;700965 Wrote:
>> > I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop
>> > and
>> > desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business
>> > version. I
>> > have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
>> > desktop.
>> > How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the
>> > partition and
>> > reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
>> > with
>> > me.
>>
>> Hello Donneda,
>>
>> You can find your email store here.
>> C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Mail\Local Folders
>>
>> You can copy them to the flash drive for safe keeping.
>>
>> Hope that's what you need.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> --
>> garysgold
>>
>> Vista Home Premiumx32 SP1
>> Q6600 Quad Core 2.40 GHz
>> 4 GB Ram 800 MHz
>> Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB
>> 500 GB HD
>> Exp. Index=5.5
>>

Donneda;701032 Wrote:
> Ok. When I go to C:\Users\(username)\ I don't have the option for
> AppData. Is there any other link for this option? I have looked several
> places. I can save my "recent emails" but that only covers the last
> couple of
> weeks.
>
> What else?
>

In Windows explorer go to 'Organise'/Folder and Search Options. On the
view tab, check 'Show hidden folders and files'. OK. You may need to
close and reopen explorer (not sure).

Now you should see the folder AppData under your username.

Gary


--
garysgold

Vista Home Premiumx32 SP1
Q6600 Quad Core 2.40 GHz
4 GB Ram 800 MHz
Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB
500 GB HD
Exp. Index=5.5

Export only exports to Outlook and they have to have Outlook installed.

steve

"Gary VanderMolen" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Windows by default will not display files or folders with the
> 'hidden' attribute. To change that, with Windows Explorer open,
> press Alt to bring up the menu bar, then Tools, Folder Options,
> View, click the button for "Show hidden files and folders."
> While you're there, uncheck "Hide extensions..."
> You should now be able to navigate to AppData.
>
> Frankly, if all you want to do is backup your mail, I would do so
> from within Windows Mail: File, Export, Messages.
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
>
>
> "Donneda" <> wrote in message
> news1CF6F07-D7B7-4BB9-A83C-...
>> Ok. When I go to C:\Users\(username)\ I don't have the option for
>> AppData. Is there any other link for this option? I have looked several
>> places. I can save my "recent emails" but that only covers the last
>> couple of
>> weeks.
>>
>> What else?
>>
>> "garysgold" wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Donneda;700965 Wrote:
>>> > I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my
>>> > laptop
>>> > and
>>> > desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business
>>> > version. I
>>> > have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
>>> > desktop.
>>> > How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the
>>> > partition and
>>> > reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
>>> > with
>>> > me.
>>>
>>> Hello Donneda,
>>>
>>> You can find your email store here.
>>> C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Mail\Local Folders
>>>
>>> You can copy them to the flash drive for safe keeping.
>>>
>>> Hope that's what you need.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> garysgold
>>>
>>> Vista Home Premiumx32 SP1
>>> Q6600 Quad Core 2.40 GHz
>>> 4 GB Ram 800 MHz
>>> Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB
>>> 500 GB HD
>>> Exp. Index=5.5
>>>
>
>

See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm and the section on WinMail. Just save the
eml files from the various directories. Then you can create a new folder in
OE and drag the eml files from Explorer and drop them on top of the OE
message list for that folder and they will be incorporated into the OE
message store. Alternatively, my OEX program (www.oehelp.com/OEX/) will let
you import from a directory of eml files into an OE folder with a single
button click. It also works to import into WinMail from OE's dbx files.

steve

"Donneda" <> wrote in message
news:78E3442D-ECD5-4D21-A6D8-...
> Hello Community,
>
> I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop
> and
> desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business version.
> I
> have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
> desktop.
> How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the partition
> and
> reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
> with
> me.
>
> I am a PhD student so my email documents are extremely valuable and I
> cannot
> take the risk of losing them. I've done this before when going from an
> older
> XP machine to a newer one, but I've never done this trying to go from
> Vista
> back to XP.
>
> Any step by step help is appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Donneda

When I try Export, Messages, it gives me a choice of Microsoft Exchange
or Windows Mail. Are you saying that WM's message format can't work
with Outlook Express?

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Steve Cochran" <> wrote in message news:1C2F9567-3B04-4A52-B80D-...
> Export only exports to Outlook and they have to have Outlook installed.
>
> steve
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" <> wrote in message news:...
>> Windows by default will not display files or folders with the
>> 'hidden' attribute. To change that, with Windows Explorer open,
>> press Alt to bring up the menu bar, then Tools, Folder Options,
>> View, click the button for "Show hidden files and folders."
>> While you're there, uncheck "Hide extensions..."
>> You should now be able to navigate to AppData.
>>
>> Frankly, if all you want to do is backup your mail, I would do so
>> from within Windows Mail: File, Export, Messages.
>>
>> --
>> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
>>
>>
>> "Donneda" <> wrote in message news1CF6F07-D7B7-4BB9-A83C-...
>>> Ok. When I go to C:\Users\(username)\ I don't have the option for
>>> AppData. Is there any other link for this option? I have looked several
>>> places. I can save my "recent emails" but that only covers the last couple of
>>> weeks.
>>>
>>> What else?
>>>
>>> "garysgold" wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Donneda;700965 Wrote:
>>>> > I want to go back to XP from Vista only because I want to sync my laptop
>>>> > and
>>>> > desktop and don't have the money to upgrade Vista to the business
>>>> > version. I
>>>> > have several valuable emails, though, in Windows Mail on the Vista
>>>> > desktop.
>>>> > How can I save them to a flash drive so that I can wipe out the
>>>> > partition and
>>>> > reinstall XP? I will not do the switch if I cannot take my email trail
>>>> > with
>>>> > me.
>>>>
>>>> Hello Donneda,
>>>>
>>>> You can find your email store here.
>>>> C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Mail\Local Folders
>>>>
>>>> You can copy them to the flash drive for safe keeping.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that's what you need.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> garysgold