stupid question.

my desktop was having issues recently, and its now fixed.

In the meantime I've been working from my laptop for a few months and have 1000+ e-mails that I want to keep.

once i have installed outlook/thunderbird on dektop, whats the easiest way to get these e-mails on the new machine and accessible through my chosen e-mail software?

C:\Documents and Settings\j00rn4m3gowshear\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Copy the Outlook.pst from there into same location on desktop Thanks for playing

zing^

Skitza I'm not sure if that will work if going from outlook to thunderbird.


Otherwise, while in your Outlook inbox, Copy and paste all emails from the inbox of outlook into the inbox of thunderbird.

you can export to a few different formats, and im pretty sure thunderbird can import those

yeah dude thunderbird is pretty good

it should import a .pst file easy

update:

Now running Vista Ultimate.

I want this pesky outlook.pst on outlook in Vista, but can't for the life of me locate where to put it, this file system in vista is completely noob proof.

I didn't think thunderbird would import stuff like outlook, outlook express other than when it's already installed on the machine and imports the email directly from it. I actually find thunderbird pretty lame in that regard.

Go into Outlook an go Import, then choose your .pst, that should work. Might be different in Outlook 07 as I havent used it.

In vista C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders\Inbox actually has individual email files (not sure if xp has that) so not sure if dropping the .pst will work but import should ^

just jam it anywhere, open outlook and use the import feature. Then outlook can put it where it needs too, then open thunderbird and use ITS import utility and robert is your fathers brother.

eds for the win.

not quite, thunderbird ITS import utility?

i'm just going tools->import->outlook and it doesn't work

Whats the error message your getting?