<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 June 2010 15:17, Alan Lord (News) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com">alanslists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 23/06/10 14:56, Andrew Bryant wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> In order to transfer Outlock Express data (both the emails and the<br>
> address list) do we need to get the windows system repaired first, or<br>
> can we copy the relevant folders across and work some magic in Ubuntu?<br>
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</div>IIRC when trying to import mail from Outlook to Thunderbird, you needed<br>
a working Outlook as the mail file is proprietary to MS and Thunderbird<br>
basically used API calls to outlook to extract the data (please note<br>
however that recently Microsoft have opened up information on the file<br>
structure so this might change in the future).<br>
<br>
I am not sure if this is the same for Outlook Express.<br>
<br>
If you can Windows to boot, install Thunderbird on Windows first, import<br>
the mail data, then copy the Thunderbird profile over to Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
Al<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>Just to add to the comments, I believe OE Files are actually .IDX files and are found in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "></span>Again not sure how well it imports them, pretty sure Thunderbird can handle them but not 100%</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andy </div></div>