Hello, I wonder if you can help. I've been trying out Windows 7 and its live Mail Program and from XP I imported my emails in there no problem. Now from Live Mail I've sucessfully imported all my emails from that program (Live Mail) and I wish to import my emails into outlook express 6 on XP. I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right dection. Thank You1 person needs an answerI do too

Assuming you are using two different machines for Win7 And XP, create folders on the Desktop of the Win7 machine and drag WLMail messages into these folders. Copy these folders with flash or CD to the XP's Desktop. Open the folders and drag the messages into OE folders. If you are going to continue to use two computers with different e-mail programs............. If both computers are using the same e-mail address, on both machines: Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: Leave a copy of messages on the server. On one machine only, check to Delete messages after X days to satisfy your allotted space you get from your server. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]

Hi When I using Windows Live Mail I used the "Export" Mail option so I have all the folders backed up and got 6 Folders now on my desktop can you explain in non jargon please on what to do from here? Outlook Express won't let me import the folders so what else do I need to do??

When you used the Export option, did you notice that it only exports to Microsoft Exchange and Windows Live Mail? OE does not have the ability to import the messages in this form. If you open one of the folders on the Desktop, do you see all the individual eml files? If you do, then simply highlight them all and drag them into an empty OE folder in OE's folder tree. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]

When you used the Export option, did you notice that it only exports to Microsoft Exchange and Windows Live Mail? OE does not have the ability to import the messages in this form. If you open one of the folders on the Desktop, do you see all the individual eml files? If you do, then simply highlight them all and drag them into an empty OE folder in OE's folder tree. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] ok What are eml files? Do I restore those in the Application Identities folder in the local settings??? These are the folders that I have: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4788/folderst.jpg

If you open any of these folders, do you see individual entries for each message? If you do, those are what you need to highlight and drag into an OE folder. (I would think the Outbox is empty and not needed). Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]

If you open any of these folders, do you see individual entries for each message? If you do, those are what you need to highlight and drag into an OE folder. (I would think the Outbox is empty and not needed). Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] What individual entries? Where would I actually copy these files???

I think I can see where your coming from now are you referring to these files http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2091/emailmessages.png

How about we start all over and do this like I suggested in my first reply. I am not so sure you actually have the WLMail files with the messages. Let's say you have a folder in WLMail named My Mail and you want to transfer all these messages to OE. Drag the WLMail screen to the right so you can see a part of the Desktop. Right click on the Desktop and create a new folder. Now open the My Mail folder in WLMail so you see all the message headers. Highlight one and Ctrl+A will highlight them all. Right click on them and drag them into the Desktop folder. You only copy here so the messages also remain in WLMail. Close WLMail. Open the Desktop folder. Open OE and drag that screen to the right so you can see the OE folder tree and the messages in the Desktop folder. Create a folder in OE called My Mail. Highlight all the Desktop folder messages and drag them into the OE folder. Done! Lather - Rinse - Repeat for the other WLMail folders. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]

I think I can see where your coming from now are you referring to these files http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2091/emailmessages.png Yes. Just highlight them all and drag them into an OE folder. My other recent reply shows more details of doing this. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]

Thanks that's done the trick cheers for your help.

You're welcome. Great to hear you got the messages moved. Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail]