Easy way to import OE6 files to Windows 7?

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 ?

DanS wrote:
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

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
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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.

"R. C. White" wrote in
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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