The all new Netbook as Main Computer series is a log of the trails and tribulations of going from powerful Core i5, 14″ notebook to a puny, weak and underpowered 10.1″ netbook with half the power. Can Tiff survive?
Windows Live Mail having PMS and not exporting your emails? CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
What happens when you try to use Windows Easy Transfer on a 64-bit computer to transfer your data to a 32-bit computer? That’s right, it totally doesn’t work. And guess when would you find out?
Only after wasting all your time transferring the data.
Getting Mail Off Manually
If there was one thing you really needed to do when you migrated from one computer to another – it’s to copy all your email. The problem with Windows Live Mail is that Export didn’t seem to work for me since it only created a folder of 13mb or so, when all my email weight out at 800mb.
Therefore, I had to get my hands dirty… again by manually transferring all email from the old computer to my netbook. But the transfer was quite simple, you just needed to copy all the .eml files from your old computer to the new one. In Windows 7,
Head to…
C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
You can access this by copying this into your address bar. Change [user name] to whatever yours is.
Once you are here, you will find the folders of your email accounts. If yours is Netbookist, for example, you will find a folder called Netbookist ***, where *** are some random numbers.
Inside the folder, you will find a few folders corresponding with the type of email that is stored inside. If you want your inbox, click the Inbox folder and copy all the eml files inside it. Then paste it in the new computer’s Windows Live Mail (or whatever email client you want to use) folder which is located in the same place on your new computer’s hard drive.
Load up Windows Live Mail and you’ll see these items appear in your inbox as unread items. Simply highlight everyone and click Mark as Read to get rid of the false alarm.
Done!
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