From: Randall Parker 

Gary,

You are telling me to fire up OE on the new machine.

The old NT machine has its C: drive mapped as X: on the new machine. I'm trying to
find the directories you are talking about.

Note that the machine I'm trying to migrate is a few thousand miles away from me.
Using my own NT machine (which has OE 5.5 but I haven't used it in years)
as an example I see by searching on *.dbx files (which is a file type OE
uses according to
pages Geo pointed me to):

C:\winnt\profiles\\"Application
Data"\Identities\\"Outlook
Express"\

As the place whihc has a bunch of dbx files for news groups as well as Folders.dbx
and Inbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, Offline.dbx. Outbox.dbx, and Pop3uidl.dbx.

So is one of them the address book? Or is that somewhere else entirely?

I want to move their in and out boxes and their address book and basic settings.

Do I need to import one file at a time?

I most want to move the address book.

I do not find a "share" or "shared" directory. Do you
mean either of those names
literally?

Are you telling me to physically move files over to the new machine with Explorer or
do everything from within OE?

Gary Britt wrote:
> Fire up OE and do a file import on the file store in the share directory.
> Move the OE DBX directories to the shared directory if it isn't directly
> shared.  In looking quickly at file import on OE 6 I don't see an option for
> OE 5 import.  Just OE 4 and OE 6.  So either OE 5 file format is the same as
> 6 or you will have to do one of several alternative workarounds.
>
> Workarounds would be on the OE 5 machine fire up outlook (not express) and
> import the  OE files into outlook.  Then on the new machine import the
> outlook files into OE 6.  Another would be to upgrade the OE 5 machine to OE
> 6, and it will convert the OE 5 dbx files to OE 6.  You can then file import
> these messages to the new machine with OE 6 on the new machine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gary
>
> "Randall Parker"
 wrote
> in message news:40fb2d9d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>I finally got a connection between XP Home and NT established. How can I
>
> transfer all
>
>>the OE v5 email address book and old email stuff over to the new machine?
>>
>>Keep in mind the machine is a few thousand miles away from me.
>>
>
>
>

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