Getting emails from old laptop to new windows 8 latop

[R2D2]

My daughter has just bought a new Windows 8 laptop and has tasked dad with getting her 1000 emails and settings from her old XP laptop to the new one. The old laptop has Outlook Express the new one Outlook. Any tips more than welcome!!

 

[flango]

Outlook Express uses a dbx file to store mail as where Outlook uses a pst file, so I think some conversion may be necessary THIS may help. If theres an easier way I'm sure one of the IT gurus will be along shortly

 

[balge]

Move an Outlook data file from one computer to another - Outlook - Office.com

Should do it

 

[danieljames]

Another one that might help .....

How to upgrade from Outlook Express to Outlook 2010, to Outlook 2007, to Outlook 2003, or to Outlook 2002

 

[R2D2]

Right. Progress so far: I'm using microsoft's easy transfer software. It claims it will move email, favourites, documents, photos etc. I've started it running but it says it'll take 9 hours!

 

[modfather]

Right. Progress so far: I'm using microsoft's easy transfer software. It claims it will move email, favourites, documents, photos etc. I've started it running but it says it'll take 9 hours!

i suspect 2 things. You have the laptops connected to a wireless connection and the old laptop has lots of files on it in her documents / downloads?

The only way to speed up the process would be to connect the laptops with ethernet cables or stick the easy transfer file on a usb drive perhaps

 

[Noneleft]

Found this :

If you are moving from XP or Vista, start your Windows 8 PC. Run Windows Easy Transfer, choose ‘An external hard drive’, ‘This is my new PC’, ‘No’, and then ‘My old PC is running XP or Vista’. Copy the software to a USB drive. Afterwards, plug the USB drive into the old PC to install Windows Easy Transfer.

Read more: Move files to a new Windows 8 PC with Windows Easy Transfer - Step by step guide - Computeractive
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Seems you are already doing it - and from memory, when I did it from xp to Win 7 it took hours and hours...

I remember that if the mail file size was over 20Gib it would run for hours, then fail.......

in the end I did a dir transfer using a usb (copy/paste) and told the new machine that there was a mail box data in dir xx

Then had new mail as per defaults and legacy mail via a second mail box (under the inbox folder) pointing to the 'old' mail dir

Good luck

 

[Simon_M]

Right. Progress so far: I'm using microsoft's easy transfer software. It claims it will move email, favourites, documents, photos etc. I've started it running but it says it'll take 9 hours!

I have used it - surprisingly good tool.

S