I'm installing a brandnew Vista Home machine and like to import all e-mails from the old Vista Home computer (both on Windows Mail). The old computer has gone south, but there is an image (on an external hard-drive) of drive C: and on mounting that image, I'm having access to all files. Don't know where to search and how to proceed that "import" of all e-mails and all addresses (no newsgroups).
When I select Outlook in the import wizard a message box opens staitng that "e-mail cannot be imported from a MAPI client. MAPI is not installed or there was an error starting MAPI" What's the problem here? Do I need to install MAPI for indowsVista / Windows Mail and if so how? Or is there some other way to import the Outlook.pst file that I exported from WinXP/Outlook?
Motherboard fried, upgraded computer with Vista and installed old hard drive. Installed Outlook and trying to import all old e-mails from OE on hard drive from old computer.
I want to import my address book in Outlook Express from my computer to my Windows Mail on my laptop. Is this possible? And if it is mayby someone can tell me how.
When I initially downloaded itunes, my cd drive disappeared. I found a link to a fix online, and it did fix it. Well I have installed an update to itunes, and now it shows it is there, but it will not import or rip cds. I have windows vista 32 bit.
Is it possible to import directly from an Outlook data file (.pst)? The wizard seems to only work if you have an active installation, which I do not after upgrading from XP to Vista 64 (along with a new motherboard, processor and memory). I had the older version of Office Home and Student that came with Outlook, but Office 2007 Home & Student does not.
My old PC had Outlook (or Outlook Express) and I saved off the emails by selecting them all and dragging them to a folder on my network. Doing this creates an msg file for each email. Now, like I've done many times in the past, I would like to import them into the emailprogram of a new laptop. So I dragged the msg files into Vista Windows Mail and instead of importing the messages it creates a brand new email with these msg files as attachments! The only reason I save email in this manner is because Microsoft really dropped the ball when it came to transferring email from one PC to another. I forget which it was but either Outlook or Outlook Express was so bad it was a disaster. This method always worked so this is what I've decided to do. Now it looks like Microsoft's found a way to f*** this up too.
I have a problem with Windows Movie Maker. I can import audio and pictures but somehow I can't import videos. I have the correct codecs. Here's a screenshot
Running Outlook 2003 on Vista Business. Have copied outlook express folder from old PC to C: on Vista. Import says "Cannot open mail folder". I imported into Windows Mail so it isn't a security problem, as the folder and all subfolders/files are owned by the user who has full control of the folder and files. What can the problem be? Is it because there is no email acount set up as yet?
I'm running Vista home premium 64bit. New computer, new operating system I wanted to import some pics from my camera (nikon D300) and noticed that there is no longer a "camera, photo, scanner wizard" like XP had. I decided to try and use the windows live photo gallery. I picked the groups I wanted to copy off of my camera. Gave them a name or tag. Went to import options and choose my writable drive to import them to. I get this box: options/import options: you cannot import to this folder. Choose another location. I have tried both a CD / DVD, and I know there is room. I went into windows explorer and manually copied the pics to the writable drive so I know its working. So my question is: Why wont Windows live photo gallery let me save my photo's off of my camera to my writable drive?
I'm trying to import bookmarks (favorites) from Firefox into IE8. The option to import from another browser is grayed out, and when I try to import from a file, I only get the last few bookmarks.
I just set up window mail and it works fine, but the question is why all email from yahoo (Transfer from) imported to window mail and left none in yahoo it self. I would like to know if I can transfer back to original or safe all the mail from window mail, so I can use them in other computer.
I recently had my main laptop "crap" out and had the hard drive put onto an external hard drive. I have many contacts, folders and e-mails that I need to put into Windows Mail on my backup laptop but for some reason I can't import them due to permission access?
I have noticed that one newsgroup consistently shows the list of headers starting several rows down from the top, while all others work correctly. This is just a minor annoyance, but any ideas why this is happening and how to correct it?
I was using Outlook Express on my XP machine until it died, so I switched everything to my Vista laptop which has Microsoft Mail. It seems just about the same, but all the emails and contacts are now separate files rather than the old MDX format. I found some software that can be purchased that will extract the emails into the new EML format, but I would think Microsoft would have a built-in or freely available utility to do this, since both are their products and included in the OS. Can I also install OE on my Vista computer and then save emails as EML?
I am trying to import some folders into Windows mail and keep getting 'not responding' even after waiting. I get the selection for Windows Mail 7, then Browse to get my files but then 'next' doesn't proceed. I have Vista.
I have windows xp pro and vista on my computer. I find I like OE 6.0 on my xp pro to be much faster than windows mail, and I need to switch to windows mail. Unfortunately, i have several accounts on windows mail, and I have forgotten their passwords. So I exported each account in windows mail, and have saved the internet account settings (in *.iaf files). When I use the import function in OE 6.0 (Tools->accounts->Import), it won't let me import any account settings. I don't remember the passwords of a few of those accounts (which currently work with windows mail), but I need to create such accounts in OE 6.0. Is there a way I can migrate account settings in windows mail to OE 6.0?
i can not import videos into my movie maker and some of the videos i play on windows media player do not have a picture just the sound. i have windows xp professional and can someone explain what is wrong and how to fix it?
Im trying to import my mail folders/messages from Window Mail to Outlook. In Outlook, I choose, File, Import, Import from another file/program, Windows mail. Outlook finds old mail files (from Outlook express) and imports them perfectly. Problem is they are not my windows mail files. I dont know where outlook is looking for the files or how to find the outlook files to delete them and move the windows mail files to where Outlook is looking.
I am trying to import my Outlook Contacts into the Vista Contacts folder. Many of the Outlook Contacts have extended characters, e.g. ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc. The CSV file that I created from Outlook correctly displays the accented letters and the Spanish "?" but when I import the contacts into Vista Contacts, they display as gibberish.
Importing a vCard works but I have hundreds of contacts and I haven't been able to save all of them as a single file. Saving and importing them one at a time would take hours. How does one import contacts with Spanish and French names?
I don't even know which thread to post it in. My computer's motherboard died so I was forced to buy a new machine. The new machine runs Vista. The old machine ran XP. I've added the old hard drive with the XP O/S to the new computer as a secondary drive. I'm trying to get all my old settings, desktop, favorites, etc. to the Vista environment. How do I do this? Here's what I've tried to do and failed:
1) Boot from old drive. Get's BSOD. 2) Add old drive to working XP machine on network in order to transfer settings and file. Drive won't boot computer. Gets hung up on AGP driver that temp machine doesn't use. 3) Copied old XP OS to new partition on new machine to run a repair XP install. XP disks won't install on newer version.
Here's what I have to work with: Vista OS on main HDD, XP OS on old drive installed on new machine, XP OS copied onto new drive partition within same machine, and a newly formatted external hard drive. I understand the need to reinstall the programs. What can I do to save all that information that was hidden in the XP registry?
Our new computer vista home premium, I use windows mail as e-mail (no outlook avaible because I only have Office home/studend edition). On old computer (windows xp) I used Outlook, I copied al my e-mails to an external harddisk, so now I try to open the mail (on ex. harddisk) and can't open them because they are all msg files (?) I searched every where if it is possible to open these files. If I change the extension to open them (e.g. word etc.) it is still abacadabra for me. Maybe I had to change the extension of the e-mails before I copied them to ex.harddisk??? Old computer is gone already so I have a "problem" now. I don't know I this is the right communitie
I tried to import my favorites from one PC to another. I got multiple Favorites folders. Then I delete everything in the Favorites folder and tried importing again. Now when I add to favorites, I see something totally different in the drop down box than what is left on my screen. The two are no the same. What do I need to do to make them the same? Does the export/import not work correctly?
I backed up firefox and thunderbird profiles. Ive managed to import his favorites to IE and his old emails to windows mail. But ive not been able to find out how to import/convert thunderbird .mab files to windows mail or windows contact format.
I have recently started using a new computer with vista. I had a number of emails saved in outlook on my old computer running xp, which I saved to a CD using the export feature. I cannot 'find' these files using the import feature in windows mail in vista,
My questions are does Vista need to have a User name/ documents / favorites folder? And a User name/ favorites folder?
I had a problem importing favorites from my win XP IE 7 via a flash drive,( not a valid bookmark file error ) and after upgrading to IE 8, uninstalling IE 8 and reverting back to IE 7 I got my favorites into the User Name non documents folder.
I deleted the favs folder in documents which showed it as empty. Now I cannot re import my favs again from the flash drive.
I am trying to avoid the whole process of installing IE 8 and reverting to 7 again and I think I did some stupid deleting.
Can I just create a documents /folder name favorites and hope that IE will import form there? If so I tried it and got an error ( incomplete URL ).