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Thu May 08 11:29:40 PDT 2008
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Big Al Mintaka wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Guess I wasn't too clear in my first post.
>
> Duplicate messages aren't the problem. OE has an old message store. The
> message store in Thunderbird is all newer messages. Even before the
> import,
> there were no duplicate messages in the two folder structures.
>
> The folders, not their contents, are where the duplication occurs. Both
> email programs have an identical folder structure containing hundreds of
> subfolders. After the import operation, all of the Thunderbird folders
> wound up in a "Thunderbird Import Folder". What I'd like to do now is
> move
> all the subfolders out of the "Import Folder" and merge them with the
> folders in the OE store.
>
> Unfortunately if I try to do this by dragging the entire Thunderbird
> folder
> structure and dropping it on the OE structure, the two sets of folders and
> their contents don't get merged. Instead the Thunderbird folders get
> their
> names appended by "(1)" and get added to the structure alongside the OE
> folders. That's where the duplicates get created.
>
> It would take me forever to open every Thunderbird folder, select all its
> messages, drag them to the corresponding OE folder, and delete the empty
> Thunderbird folder. This is why I want to do the drag-drop operation
> instead.
>
> I mentioned Windows Explorer in this context because if one file folder
> structure is dragged and dropped on another, folders with the same names
> get
> merged. No duplicates with "(1)" appended to their names are created. In
> the event of identical files, Explorer prompts the user for overwrite or
> ignore preferences. This is what does not happen in OE.
>
> If it can't be done, I guess I'll just have to maintain redundant folder
> structures and look in both to find any archived messages I need. There
> must be a better way!
>
> Thanks for your response,
> Big Al Mintaka
>
>
>
>
> "Michael Santovec" wrote:
>
>> If Thunderbird has all the messages that you want, would start by
>> deleting all the messages in OE. That way you won't get duplicates. An
>> alternate means if you stopped using OE on a given date would be to sort
>> the Thunderbird messages by date and only copy the ones that you want.
>>
>> In any case, if you have both folders in the same instances of OE you
>> can drag-and-drop messages between folders, then delete the unneeded
>> folders.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> "Big Al Mintaka" <BigAlMintaka@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:28220BFA-003D-46BF-A5FE-168298F6F9FB@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> I've just returned to using Outlook Express 6 after using Thunderbird
>>> for
>>> about a year. In that time I accumulated a large number of new
>>> messages in
>>> Thunderbird and used the same folder structure I had in OE6.
>>>
>>> Eventually I managed to get all of my Thunderbird message folders into
>>> an
>>> Outlook Express folder named "Thunderbird Import".
>>>
>>> (BTW I did this by exporting from Thunderbird to Outlook, then from
>>> Outlook
>>> to Outlook Express)
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do now is re-merge the subfolders in the ThunderBird
>>> Import
>>> folder back into my personal folder store in Outlook Express.
>>>
>>> However I can't figure how to do this without winding up with
>>> duplicate
>>> subfolders having names appended by "(1)", "(2)", etc. i.e. instead
>>> of
>>> merging a subfolder named "SW Receipts", I get "SW Receipts" and "SW
>>> Receipts
>>> (1)".
>>>
>>> If I did this to file folders in Windows Explorer, the folders would
>>> be
>>> merged into one folder with the same name, and duplicate contents
>>> would be
>>> overwritten while new ones would be added.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do this in Outlook Express, either in OE itself or
>>> using
>>> a 3rd party utility?
>>>
>>> Thanks to all who take the time to read this,
>>> Big Al Mintaka