You can't put an OE message store in a location and expect WinMail to pick
it up. To import the message store from OE to WinMail you have to copy the
dbx files (make sure you include folders.dbx) into a blank subdirectory on
the target machine. Then clear the read only attribute of the files. Then
in WinMail you use File | Import | Messages and point to that directory.
You do NOT put stuff into a directory and then use Tools | Options |
Maintenance | Store Folder to change to that directory. That will not work.
With Outlook 2007, I don't know how you get the messages from WinMail into
it, if File | Import (in Outlook) or File | Export in WinMail don't work.
steve
"Ken S." <Ken S.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:865809CB-3CBB-4FDD-BC7D-E97F9644A99E@microsoft.com...
>I have a similar issue. I am moving from OE on XP to Outlook 2007 on
>Vista.
> I followed the directions from the help article found in Outlook 2007
> called
> "Import your messages or account from Outlook Express to Outlook" in the
> section "When Outlook and Outlook Express are installed on different
> computers" and the subsections "Copy the Outlook Express folder" and
> "Import
> Outlook Express messages into Outlook", which says to move to Windows Mail
> (on the box you are moving to) first by changing the store folder and and
> I
> get the message "The directory you selected is not empty. Please select
> an
> empty directory for your new store location." None of the
> File/Import/Messages options seem to work either. Thanks for your help in
> advance!
>
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> Try File/Import/Messages pointing to the old OE store folder. Sounds
>> like
>> what you told it to do was change the message store folder to your old OE
>> location and that will not work since the databases are very different in
>> the two operating sytems. Just be thankful you did not instruct it to
>> proceed anyway, or you would have wiped out your old message store and
>> all
>> of its messages as Vista would have happily overwrote your old store.
>>
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
>>
>>
>> "-Bill Lancaster" <-Bill Lancaster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:E6E85462-047B-456E-BCA8-BB0066F10E82@microsoft.com...
>> >I installed Beta2 on my home system test partition and am trying to set
>> >it
>> > up. When I tried to point Windows Mail to my Outlook Express directoy
>> > on
>> > my
>> > datastore, I get an error that telles me that "the directoy selected is
>> > not
>> > empty". Will Windows Mail not work with existing OE stores? I have
>> > several
>> > years of mail and NG postings in that store and really don't want to
>> > have
>> > to
>> > start a new one if possible.
>> >
>> > The error text is:
>> >
>> > [Window Title]
>> > Windows Mail
>> >
>> > [Main Instruction]
>> > The directory you selected is not empty. Please select an empty
>> > directory
>> > for your new store location.
>> >
>> > [OK]
>> >
>>
>>
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