Hi, Steve.

When I go to File | Import | Messages and choose the OE6 format, everything
works as expected until I get to the Location of Messages screen. Then I
click Browse, and get to navigate to E:\oestore, the location where I've
stored years of email and newsgroup messages in dozens of .dbx files.

But that's where the fun stops abruptly! The next explorer-like screen
shows no files at all in that oestore folder; the only thing I see is one
line: "No items match your search." There are two buttons below: "Select
Folder" and "Cancel". Cancel exits the wizard, of course. But Select
Folder does nothing! Which leaves me no choice but to Cancel - or use the
red X to go back to the Location screen. If I type in "oestore", the folder
name in the Browse window becomes "E:\oestore\oestore" - with the folder
name repeated, as if it were a subfolder, and the pathname is not editable
so I can't eliminate the extra oestore. To make a long story short, I
haven't found any trick that works from here. :( Previous builds hit the
same dead end. So, many Vista builds later, I've never been able to Import
my bit message store from OE6.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 build 5536)

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Go to File | Import | Messages and choose OE6 format.

steve

"Eulises H. Martinez C." wrote in message
...
hi to all

I want to import email of OE 6 to microsoft mail.
some one can help me.
thank in avance.

Eulises

Hi RC,

You definitely need to bug this then.

steve

"R. C. White" wrote in message
...
Hi, Steve.

When I go to File | Import | Messages and choose the OE6 format,
everything works as expected until I get to the Location of Messages
screen. Then I click Browse, and get to navigate to E:\oestore, the
location where I've stored years of email and newsgroup messages in dozens
of .dbx files.

But that's where the fun stops abruptly! The next explorer-like screen
shows no files at all in that oestore folder; the only thing I see is one
line: "No items match your search." There are two buttons below:
"Select Folder" and "Cancel". Cancel exits the wizard, of course. But
Select Folder does nothing! Which leaves me no choice but to Cancel - or
use the red X to go back to the Location screen. If I type in "oestore",
the folder name in the Browse window becomes "E:\oestore\oestore" - with
the folder name repeated, as if it were a subfolder, and the pathname is
not editable so I can't eliminate the extra oestore. To make a long story
short, I haven't found any trick that works from here. :( Previous
builds hit the same dead end. So, many Vista builds later, I've never
been able to Import my bit message store from OE6.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x86 build 5536)

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Go to File | Import | Messages and choose OE6 format.

steve

"Eulises H. Martinez C." wrote in message
...
hi to all

I want to import email of OE 6 to microsoft mail.
some one can help me.
thank in avance.

Eulises

Hi, Steve.

A very late reply to this old thread to report:

It works! After many failed attempts, I finally realized that the problem
is the User Access Controls in Vista. As soon as I gave myself permission
to access the OE folder, it worked. I now have all my OE6 messages imported
into Vista x86 Build 5728. ;)

The process of giving my user account Full Control over the old message
store was not as simple and easy as it should have been, and the import took
a long time, but it was a one-time job (until the next Vista build), so it
was worth the effort.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA [RC]
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(currently running Windows Mail 7 in Vista x86 RC1 Build 5728)

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Hi RC,

You definitely need to bug this then.

steve

"R. C. White" wrote in message
...
Hi, Steve.

When I go to File | Import | Messages and choose the OE6 format,
everything works as expected until I get to the Location of Messages
screen. Then I click Browse, and get to navigate to E:\oestore, the
location where I've stored years of email and newsgroup messages in
dozens of .dbx files.

But that's where the fun stops abruptly! The next explorer-like screen
shows no files at all in that oestore folder; the only thing I see is one
line: "No items match your search." There are two buttons below:
"Select Folder" and "Cancel". Cancel exits the wizard, of course. But
Select Folder does nothing! Which leaves me no choice but to Cancel - or
use the red X to go back to the Location screen. If I type in "oestore",
the folder name in the Browse window becomes "E:\oestore\oestore" - with
the folder name repeated, as if it were a subfolder, and the pathname is
not editable so I can't eliminate the extra oestore. To make a long
story short, I haven't found any trick that works from here. :(
Previous builds hit the same dead end. So, many Vista builds later, I've
never been able to Import my bit message store from OE6.

RC

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Go to File | Import | Messages and choose OE6 format.

steve

"Eulises H. Martinez C." wrote in message
...
hi to all

I want to import email of OE 6 to microsoft mail.
some one can help me.
thank in avance.

Eulises

Hi RC,

So it imported all the messages? Some reported it only would import some of
them.

I guess this UAC is going to be a real pain, and the solution is everyone is
going to turn it off to fix problems such as this, so why bother to have it?

cheers,

steve

"R. C. White, MVP" wrote in message
...
Hi, Steve.

A very late reply to this old thread to report:

It works! After many failed attempts, I finally realized that the problem
is the User Access Controls in Vista. As soon as I gave myself permission
to access the OE folder, it worked. I now have all my OE6 messages
imported into Vista x86 Build 5728. ;)

The process of giving my user account Full Control over the old message
store was not as simple and easy as it should have been, and the import
took a long time, but it was a one-time job (until the next Vista build),
so it was worth the effort.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA [RC]
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(currently running Windows Mail 7 in Vista x86 RC1 Build 5728)

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Hi RC,

You definitely need to bug this then.

steve

"R. C. White" wrote in message
...
Hi, Steve.

When I go to File | Import | Messages and choose the OE6 format,
everything works as expected until I get to the Location of Messages
screen. Then I click Browse, and get to navigate to E:\oestore, the
location where I've stored years of email and newsgroup messages in
dozens of .dbx files.

But that's where the fun stops abruptly! The next explorer-like screen
shows no files at all in that oestore folder; the only thing I see is
one line: "No items match your search." There are two buttons below:
"Select Folder" and "Cancel". Cancel exits the wizard, of course. But
Select Folder does nothing! Which leaves me no choice but to Cancel -
or use the red X to go back to the Location screen. If I type in
"oestore", the folder name in the Browse window becomes
"E:\oestore\oestore" - with the folder name repeated, as if it were a
subfolder, and the pathname is not editable so I can't eliminate the
extra oestore. To make a long story short, I haven't found any trick
that works from here. :( Previous builds hit the same dead end. So,
many Vista builds later, I've never been able to Import my bit message
store from OE6.

RC

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Go to File | Import | Messages and choose OE6 format.

steve

"Eulises H. Martinez C." wrote in message
...
hi to all

I want to import email of OE 6 to microsoft mail.
some one can help me.
thank in avance.

Eulises