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September 21st 06, 08:55 AM
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Windows Mail not able to use existing mail store?
Is there any way you can merge with the old mails?
Cheers Dino "Jim Pickering" wrote: Try File/Import/Messages pointing to the old OE store folder. Sounds like what you told it to do was change the message store folder to your old OE location and that will not work since the databases are very different in the two operating sytems. Just be thankful you did not instruct it to proceed anyway, or you would have wiped out your old message store and all of its messages as Vista would have happily overwrote your old store. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. "-Bill Lancaster" -Bill wrote in message ... I installed Beta2 on my home system test partition and am trying to set it up. When I tried to point Windows Mail to my Outlook Express directoy on my datastore, I get an error that telles me that "the directoy selected is not empty". Will Windows Mail not work with existing OE stores? I have several years of mail and NG postings in that store and really don't want to have to start a new one if possible. The error text is: [Window Title] Windows Mail [Main Instruction] The directory you selected is not empty. Please select an empty directory for your new store location. [OK] 
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September 21st 06, 12:30 PM
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Windows Mail not able to use existing mail store?
Just find the eml files and you can drag them from Explorer into a WinMail
folder. steve "Dyno" wrote in message ... Is there any way you can merge with the old mails? Cheers Dino "Jim Pickering" wrote: Try File/Import/Messages pointing to the old OE store folder. Sounds like what you told it to do was change the message store folder to your old OE location and that will not work since the databases are very different in the two operating sytems. Just be thankful you did not instruct it to proceed anyway, or you would have wiped out your old message store and all of its messages as Vista would have happily overwrote your old store. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. "-Bill Lancaster" -Bill wrote in message ... I installed Beta2 on my home system test partition and am trying to set it up. When I tried to point Windows Mail to my Outlook Express directoy on my datastore, I get an error that telles me that "the directoy selected is not empty". Will Windows Mail not work with existing OE stores? I have several years of mail and NG postings in that store and really don't want to have to start a new one if possible. The error text is: [Window Title] Windows Mail [Main Instruction] The directory you selected is not empty. Please select an empty directory for your new store location. [OK]
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