Troy, Rich ...
I'm testing on my own email now. There is a slight hesitation when it's
only me doing it that way. I can imagine what will happen if I get a bunch
of users' email on the server... in addition to the usual file traffic from
the engineers.
I think I made up my mind how it will go. I'll put the email in
standardized folders on the ws's and back them up via batch files each nite.
And be done with it.
The problem there is that I have approx 25 users to copy. The batch file
wants to reach a random point, then give me a message asking something along
the lines of "You have operations open -- do you want to close them... Y/N?"
I've tried a lot of batch file and xcopy switches and command-line
prompting, to get past the problem. My testing for this was interrupted a
week ago, but I think it will get all the way thru w/o stopping. Not sure
though. And I have no idea what the root cause of that is.
But the motto, like it or not, seems to be "Work around, be happy, and move
on". Thanks for the thoughts.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shafer [mailto:rshafer@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:01 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT-export and import of Outlook Express
address/folders/calendars
Gary,
This is just guessing, but I would think you would see some slow down given
the size of some of those files.
(You know the people who never delete their email and the Inbox file is 200+
MB)
Gosh knows how much of that file gets transported over the network everytime
OE is opened.
I'm testing on my own email now. There is a slight hesitation when it's
only me doing it that way. I can imagine what will happen if I get a bunch
of users' email on the server... in addition to the usual file traffic from
the engineers.
I think I made up my mind how it will go. I'll put the email in
standardized folders on the ws's and back them up via batch files each nite.
And be done with it.
The problem there is that I have approx 25 users to copy. The batch file
wants to reach a random point, then give me a message asking something along
the lines of "You have operations open -- do you want to close them... Y/N?"
I've tried a lot of batch file and xcopy switches and command-line
prompting, to get past the problem. My testing for this was interrupted a
week ago, but I think it will get all the way thru w/o stopping. Not sure
though. And I have no idea what the root cause of that is.
But the motto, like it or not, seems to be "Work around, be happy, and move
on". Thanks for the thoughts.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shafer [mailto:rshafer@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:01 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT-export and import of Outlook Express
address/folders/calendars
Gary,
This is just guessing, but I would think you would see some slow down given
the size of some of those files.
(You know the people who never delete their email and the Inbox file is 200+
MB)
Gosh knows how much of that file gets transported over the network everytime
OE is opened.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT-export and import of Outlook Express
address/folders/calendars
Ann,
I do it the same basic way as Rich. Except, I locate their "Outlook
Express" folder and copy everything in it to the new location's Outlook
Express folder. Works slick and quick, with nothing lost.
The Outlook Express folder tends to be in different locations, depending
on
whether W98 or W2K. And depending on who installed it and where they put
it, or how they answered the install questions, or whether someone moved
it
before... a lot of things affect it.
I'm currently in the process of moving my users to Outlook from Outlook
Express, and standardizing all the email folders into the same location.
That place, I think, will be on our server. That way we'll have tape
backups of the email. Curious... if anyone else has put their email files
on the server, have you noticed network slowdowns from doing that?
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
Milan OH
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shafer [mailto:rshafer@...]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:23 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT-export and import of Outlook Express
address/folders/calendars
Ann.
Do it the hard, but sure way.
Make sure the two email clients are either the same version or the new PC
has a newer client version.
1. Add a bogus email address to their address book.
2. Using Windows search function (by date modified. "in the last day") the
address book will be amongst the newest files (probably a .wab file)
copy the wab file to your network
3. Send a bogus email to this person and make sure it has been received
4. Repeat line two. This time you will see a file called inbox.dbx
5. Using Explorer, again, go to the folder where inbox.dbx is located.
6. copy ALL of the dbx files, found in the same folder as inbox.dbx, to
your
network
7. move to the new machine
8. find the existing wab and dbx files and copy your previously saved
files
on the network to those locations.
Yes its complicated but I tend to not have yelling and screaming
PS dont forget to also copy the deleted items file
People, no matter what you tell them, will "save" things in their deleted
bin.
----- Original Message -----
From: amfabllc <amfab@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: [Vantage] OT-export and import of Outlook Express
address/folders/calendars
This should be so simple, but it's not cooperating. A user is
swapping workstations, and I need to bring over his address book,
folders and all other calendars etc. from Outlook express. Any
suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you, Ann, AMFAB