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[OT] OE help?
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New PC has old HD installed (yay). I haven't lost all my pictures and I didn't need to burn lots of disks. I even managed to retreive my old e-mails and the old e-mail folders I had. So far so good. Now, what I can't figure is how to retrieve and import / re-install all the mail accounts I had, and the mail rules I had because of all the accounts (because I used it to check Joel's e-mail addy, the shmoggleberry addy, the yowie addy , sort the yowie addy into Catslaves mail, other Yahoo group mail, etc etc) All the files are still on the old drive, I just need to know which ones I need to copy and where I need to put them in the new PC. The old PC was W98, the new one is WXP, if that helps. Its not a *major* tragedy if I can't do it, I got my address book, and my photos, and the rest of the crud in "My documents"... I may lose some applications, but on the pictures are the most important (Can't lose the precious Yowlet pics!), followed by the address book. Thanks, Yowie |
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OK, all of the things you are talking about are in files. The files
have names (duh). Assuming you are using the same program as before, the file names are the same as before, but they may be in a different location than in the original computer. Search the new computer for the file name and then copy the old file over the new file (which doesn't have your stuff in it yet). That is how you get the old files into the new computer program. Leastwise it is how I did it. Bridget Yowie wrote: OK, New PC has old HD installed (yay). I haven't lost all my pictures and I didn't need to burn lots of disks. I even managed to retreive my old e-mails and the old e-mail folders I had. So far so good. Now, what I can't figure is how to retrieve and import / re-install all the mail accounts I had, and the mail rules I had because of all the accounts (because I used it to check Joel's e-mail addy, the shmoggleberry addy, the yowie addy , sort the yowie addy into Catslaves mail, other Yahoo group mail, etc etc) All the files are still on the old drive, I just need to know which ones I need to copy and where I need to put them in the new PC. The old PC was W98, the new one is WXP, if that helps. Its not a *major* tragedy if I can't do it, I got my address book, and my photos, and the rest of the crud in "My documents"... I may lose some applications, but on the pictures are the most important (Can't lose the precious Yowlet pics!), followed by the address book. Thanks, Yowie |
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