OEx, Yahoo & Win 7

Had XP, no longer supported, and constant problems, went to Win 7 as OP.
Lost OEx, not supported. Yahoo mail, which also had my email, closed my account due to "inactivity."

All email lost? :mad

 

Sarge I know this loss of your OEX emails has been a massive blow for you but I cannot now remember just where we are hardwarewise. If you do still have the old XP machine, or its hard drive, those emails are still stored in a set of files each having the file extension .dbx, and there are ways and means with which they can be recovered into Win 7 even though Win 7 does not have OEX.

It all depends on whether you still have that old machine or its hard drive. Can't help with Yahoo at all.

 

Affirmative, it is this one
Tnx all.
Sarge

 

Sarge I was trying to edit my post when the doorbell rang and I've only just got free rolleyes But what I wanted to add was that if you have installed 7 to the old XP machine then the chances of recovering anything are distinctly remote. However there are programs that can scan a disk for old files but a successful recovery depends on them not having been overwritten by the new install. If you want to try this then install and run Recuva and see what it produces. As I said, the files - five or six of them from memory - all have the extension .dbx

 

Running Recuva.
Initial scan found nothing, running deep scan on HD which clues me that even this is not promising.

Yahoo: I publish an in-house newsletter for a Rottweiler rescue group I belong to, and all on-line communications are through Yahoo. Puzzling that Yahoo shows more than one year inactivity
Sarge

 

If you guys don't hear from me after a few days, send help
Decided on T'bird for email to replace OEx.
It asked for previous email addy. Furnished that, and now I have 8074 messages to read/edit/delete from Oct 2013

Wonder if Pizza Hut can get through the piles to deliver?

Sarge

 

That could be great news Sarge. If your account in OEX was set up as an IMAP account then these will be at least some of the messages you have lost. It's more likely though that your account was a POP account, in which case the messages you lost in OEX will not be among the new messages unless you had previously opted to always leave a copy on the server. That could mean these are 8074 messages you have never seen before :eek

This has to be a heck of a lot better than the fix you were previously in. Hope it works for you.

 

It was a POP 3.
8000 + is better than 0.
T'Bird seems to be missing some features of OEx, so I am trying to figure how to save some messages in a separate folder.
I'll move some to a flash drive if I can figure out how
.This is tiresome and harsh on nerves
Tomorrow is another day. Starts at 0:dark30 for me, so I better ready for the rack
Thanks

Sarge

 

If you want a new folder at the first level, i.e. same level as Inbox, right click the account name at the top of the left pane and a sub-menu will appear which includes New Folder.

If you want your Inbox to have sub-folders then right click Inbox and follow the same procedure.

Moving just some of your messages to a different location isn't anywhere near as straightforward. I'm a longtime TBird user and know it pretty well but I'll have to do a bit of research on that one.

 

@JoeRay - What I believe Sarge is wanting to do is actually move to a flash drive rather than copy some of the 8000 emails he has suddenly picked up. Mozbackup won't help with that and creating new subfolders in Local Folders won't either. I'm still scratching my head on this one and avoiding getting into creating new profiles as that would floor Sarge completely I'm afraid.

 

He wants to move SOME of his emails to a flash drive, either to reduce Inbox congestion or to save space, we don't know. Rather than a flash drive, Inbox sub-folders are the obvious way to ease the congestion problem, but God knows where you get the idea that that may cause data corruption. It's rubbish.

The OP is still struggling with having had to abandon XP and OEX, losing years worth of valuable emails in the process, and getting used to Win 7 and TBird. I don't think advising him at this point to change horses yet again and go on the cloud is at all appropriate. Let the poor man settle down a bit first for God's sake.

 

You remind me of a famous advert from pre-internet days in which a woman advertised an entire set of Encyclopaedia Britannica with the words ' No longer needed as husband knows everything' :-D

Sorry, couldn't resist it.