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Easy way to import OE6 files to Windows 7?
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DanS wrote: I don't have any real disagreement with what you say. I think he should try WLM, but he should also try others before making up his mind. I've tried WLM, and also thought it was OK, but I don't like it as much as I like others. Does WLM still keep all messages in one giant database like file, including attachments and such ? Is there still a corruption problem ? And a 2Gig limit ? Those are what turned me away from OE a long, long time ago. You're confusing Outlook with OE. OE has .dbx files for each folder. Outlook has one .pst file for everything. OE has a 100MB limit per .dbx file and Outlook 03 and 07 are only limited in size by your hard drive. Thanks. And WLM ? |
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Easy way to import OE6 files to Windows 7?
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C wrote in : DanS wrote: I don't have any real disagreement with what you say. I think he should try WLM, but he should also try others before making up his mind. I've tried WLM, and also thought it was OK, but I don't like it as much as I like others. Does WLM still keep all messages in one giant database like file, including attachments and such ? Is there still a corruption problem ? And a 2Gig limit ? Those are what turned me away from OE a long, long time ago. You're confusing Outlook with OE. OE has .dbx files for each folder. Outlook has one .pst file for everything. OE has a 100MB limit per .dbx file and Outlook 03 and 07 are only limited in size by your hard drive. Thanks. And WLM ? No idea. I ditched Outlook Express years ago and use T-Bird and Outlook 03 now. I looked at Windows Live Mail once but didn't look into its innards or research it. C |
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Easy way to import OE6 files to Windows 7?
Hi, Dan.
Does WLM still keep all messages in one giant database like file, including attachments and such ? Is there still a corruption problem ? OE kept all messages in a few .dbx files, which it called Folders. If you got 1000 emails from your Mom of 1 KB each, you might have a Mom.dbx folder of about 1 MB holding al those messages. If one byte in one of those messages was corrupted, you probably would lose all 1,000 of them. In addition to your probably several folders, there was on called Folders.dbx which acted as an Index for all the others. As I'm sure you know, OE was an integral part of Windows XP and prior. Windows Mail (note the TWO-word name) is an integral part of Vista (and won't even run on WinXP, or on Win7 without some unsupported tweaking). It changed the storage system to keep each of those 1,000 emails from Mom in a separate .eml file; since the cluster size is 4 GB on an NTFS drive, those emails would take up 4 MB of space. But a single bad message would lose only that message, not the whole 1,000. Windows Live Mail (note the THREE-word name) is not a part of any Windows version, but it will run on WinXP, Vista and Win7. You can download it from http://download.live.com, along with any of the other Windows Live Essentials that you might want, such as the Calendar or Contacts. It uses almost the same file system as WM, so corruption in a single message does not cost us the whole Message Store. And a 2Gig limit ? I don't know anything about a 2 GB limit in any of these applications. Perhaps you are thinking of the file size or volume size limits that were imposed by earlier file systems, such as FAT(16). RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "DanS" wrote in message . 97.131... I don't have any real disagreement with what you say. I think he should try WLM, but he should also try others before making up his mind. I've tried WLM, and also thought it was OK, but I don't like it as much as I like others. Does WLM still keep all messages in one giant database like file, including attachments and such ? Is there still a corruption problem ? And a 2Gig limit ? Those are what turned me away from OE a long, long time ago. |
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Easy way to import OE6 files to Windows 7?
"R. C. White" wrote in
ecom: Hi, Dan. Does WLM still keep all messages in one giant database like file, including attachments and such ? Is there still a corruption problem ? OE kept all messages in a few .dbx files, which it called Folders. If you got 1000 emails from your Mom of 1 KB each, you might have a Mom.dbx folder of about 1 MB holding al those messages. If one byte in one of those messages was corrupted, you probably would lose all 1,000 of them. In addition to your probably several folders, there was on called Folders.dbx which acted as an Index for all the others. As I'm sure you know, OE was an integral part of Windows XP and prior. Windows Mail (note the TWO-word name) is an integral part of Vista (and won't even run on WinXP, or on Win7 without some unsupported tweaking). It changed the storage system to keep each of those 1,000 emails from Mom in a separate .eml file; since the cluster size is 4 GB on an NTFS drive, those emails would take up 4 MB of space. But a single bad message would lose only that message, not the whole 1,000. Windows Live Mail (note the THREE-word name) is not a part of any Windows version, but it will run on WinXP, Vista and Win7. You can download it from http://download.live.com, along with any of the other Windows Live Essentials that you might want, such as the Calendar or Contacts. It uses almost the same file system as WM, so corruption in a single message does not cost us the whole Message Store. And a 2Gig limit ? I don't know anything about a 2 GB limit in any of these applications. Perhaps you are thinking of the file size or volume size limits that were imposed by earlier file systems, such as FAT(16). RC Wow....that's a lot of info....and *does* answer the question !!! Thanks |
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