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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

Got my new Dell laptop (no honestly, that's not me trying a bit of placement, I actually did get a Dell -and it's, well, really OK, but then anything would look brilliant against the old Acer Travelmate vintage c. 1999) and I was keen to get my mail and web favourites transferred to the new environment. I use Outlook Express as my email interface so prospects looked good from that angle.

With two sons in IT - one working with Internet Firewalls and all things mystical 'below the floor' so to speak and the other into network support so an 'above the floor' maestro, I had everything covered. Thanks to their homely presence from time to time we have a network linking pcs and laptops in several rooms and also a 300 Gig shared external hard-drive. My task seemed, as aresult, extremely more complicated than mending a puncture in the rear wheel of my bike or changing the brake blocks to both wheels, so I left it up to one of them to do the business!

Hey, it all happened. My favourites are all there and in place. My Outlook Express has every folder I ever created and 'speaks' to the four main email addresses I use. Amazing. I even have virus software that seems to have a verey generous subscription period for some reason now...

But there had to be a catch.

And there was (still is)

I have all my email folders, but none of the emails that should be in them. They are still on the old Acer, and try as I may, I haven't found a way to transfer them over. Same goes for the Address Book.

So for now I have to duck and dive between the two PCs when I need to look at something that is from the period BD (OR AA) - I'm sure you can work that one out for yourselves.....

I can fix this for you. Interested?