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« on: March 21, 2006, 09:44:01 AM »
So I'm leaving this job in a few days, but I've been here for five years.  That's five years worth of crap on this computer that I have to burn to disk.  I'm not worried about the files as much, they're in a few places.  I'm worried about my emails.  Are they all stored someplace?  Can I take them with me?
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2006, 09:55:43 AM »
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So I'm leaving this job in a few days, but I've been here for five years.  That's five years worth of crap on this computer that I have to burn to disk.  I'm not worried about the files as much, they're in a few places.  I'm worried about my emails.  Are they all stored someplace?  Can I take them with me?

What's the email program you're using?
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2006, 10:00:13 AM »
The internet.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2006, 10:00:32 AM »
JUST KIDDING!

Thunderbird.
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2006, 10:22:59 AM »
Ugh.  Thunderbird.  The email client in which the basic functionality of being able to export mail is conspicuously absent.

If I remember right, it will be in C:\Documents and Settings\$username\Application Data\Thunderbird .

You'll want to grab and zip up that entire directory.  If you install Thunderbird fresh on another machine and unzip that file in that location, you should in theory have all your stuff.

You might be appalled by the size of that zip file, however.  Just so you know.
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2006, 10:28:03 AM »
Netscape 7.x: In Netscape 7 there are multiple things that you might need to export and move. For this reason, rather than doing each of them separately, it's best to move your entire profile (or profiles), rather than the individual parts. Using the upcoming method, your Bookmarks, addressbook, server settings, mail accounts, Local Mail folders, etc. will all transfer, and there will be nothing else that you need to configure or do.  So let's assume for now that you are going to move your entire "default" profile from an old computer and put it on the Desktop of your new computer. (If you have more than one profile, after doing "default" you would want to repeat steps 2-7 for each of them.)

Step 1: If you have not already done so, download and install Netscape just as you did on your old computer. If you use more than one profile, set up each of them in the Profile Manager, preferably with the same name(s) that you had on the old computer. Just for good measure, go ahead and launch Netscape 7 once under each profile, just to make sure it's working. It's probably best at this point not to do anything else until you bring in your old data, just in case important changes (new Bookmarks, new Local Mail, etc.) get replaced. In fact, you DO NOT need to set up your BU mail settings, since those settings will get transferred in too.

Step 2: Quit/Exit entirely out of Netscape.

Step 3: Find the .slt folder for the "default" Netscape profile on your new computer. The path toward finding it should look something like this C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default. (If you cannot see all of the files within the Documents and Settings directory, go to Tools->Folder Options->View and indicate that you want to Show Hidden Files and Folders.) Note that In Mac OS X the path to these files is Macintosh HD->Documents->Mozilla->Profiles. ALSO NOTE: If you have more than one Documents and Settings username folder, make sure that you follow the upcoming instructions using the one that you were logged into when you installed Netscape. If the upcoming instructions don't work, you should revisit this alert as a possible source of the problem and contact the PCSC for more help.

Step 4: Find the .slt folder in the "default" Netscape profile (from your old computer) that's now sitting on your Desktop. It might not have the same name, and that's okay. Just in case it doesn't have the same name, we'll have you only copy its contents, and not the folder itself.

Step 5: So open that old .slt folder and do Edit-Select All and Edit-Copy.

Step 6: Next, open the new .slt folder and choose Edit-Paste. Replace All if prompted (which you should be).

Step 7: Cross your fingers, launch Netscape and, hopefully, everything will display just as it did on your old computer! If it does, you can go ahead and delete the old default folder from your Desktop.

If you have any problems, we'd suggest consulting our own source information at http://ilias.ca/netscape/profilefaq/#transferring or http://help.netscape.com/netscape7/moving_profiles.html.
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2006, 10:29:02 AM »
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Ugh.  Thunderbird.  The email client in which the basic functionality of being able to export mail is conspicuously absent.

If I remember right, it will be in C:\Documents and Settings\$username\Application Data\Thunderbird .

You'll want to grab and zip up that entire directory.  If you install Thunderbird fresh on another machine and unzip that file in that location, you should in theory have all your stuff.

You might be appalled by the size of that zip file, however.  Just so you know.


Yeh. What he said.
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2006, 10:29:13 AM »
I guess I will be.  I don't delete alot of emails.  I'm a "get to it later" kind of gal.  Now there is no later.

Maybe I should just try to find the ones that are important and forward them to myself.
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2006, 10:30:41 AM »
Thats what Ive always done.
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2006, 10:36:59 AM »
That's probably the easiest route.  Personally, I'm of the opinion that a mail client should not even be released without some basic functions, and exporting mail is one of those functions.

Thunderbird is an okay mail client (I used it for about a year, up until a couple months ago), but that one thing pissed me off to no end, and there doesn't seem to be any rush among the main developers in fixing that.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2006, 10:45:45 AM »
Thanks.

So what do you use now?
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2006, 11:28:26 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2006, 11:30:46 AM »
I don't believe in evolution or gnomes, so that won't work for me.
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2006, 11:37:21 AM »
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I don't believe in evolution or gnomes, so that won't work for me.


Well, they don't have a Windows version out yet.  But they're working on one.

It's a pretty good mail client.  It's like Outlook, except it doesn't suck.
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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2006, 02:32:15 PM »
I actually like Outlook.  We've finally set up an exchange server though so I'll have to tone down the emails since they have more accessibility now.
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« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2006, 04:12:54 PM »
Just pull the hard drive out of the desktop and take it with you.
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