> All of this information was helpful to me too, except that when I try to
> import the .dbx files into Windows Mail, I receive a message that "no
> items
> match your search". When I look at the folder in Explorer, it contains a
> number of .dbx files. However, when when I open the folder to do the
> import,
> none of those files is showning. The folder is on a backup drive.
> Thank you for any help you cna provide me!
>
> "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> "Rick" <Rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:456DC580-DB8F-47C4-BD8B-BE53C7865A66@microsoft.com...
>>
>> >I must be missing something here. I am trying to move messages from an
>> >old
>> > computer with outlook express and windows xp, to a new machine with
>> > office
>> > outlook 2007 and windows vista. I have been able to migrate the
>> > address
>> > book, but am not able to move the messages. I can get them from the
>> > old
>> > computer with OE, but not into the new computer with outlook 2007.
>> >
>> > One of the suggestions is to open them to OE in the new computer then
>> > move
>> > them, but I do not have OE on the new computer...and if I did I
>> > wouldn't
>> > have
>> > paid the money to buy the outlook 2007 program.
>> >
>> > I have copied the dbx files into the new computer where I can access
>> > them...now how do I get them to Office Outlook 2007 so I can read them?
>>
>> You import them to Windows Mail and then from there export the messages
>> to
>> Outlook. For your address book, again, load it into Windows Mail, then
>> use
>> Outlook to import the addresses from Windows Mail.
>> --
>> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>>
>>