{"id":41,"date":"2013-03-21T06:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldtek.ca\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:05:55","slug":"moving-mail-across-windows-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Moving Mail Across Windows Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was helping a client move their data from their old Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 unit.\u00a0 They were concerned about changes in the mail program that Windows 7 provides compared to their old Outlook Express.\u00a0 They asked if Mozilla Thunderbird would be a good equivalent mail client, which I assured them it would be.\u00a0 Better in fact.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever tried to get your new installation of Thunderbird in your new computer to pickup all account settings, mail and address books from the old Outlook Express on the old hard drive, you know that can be problematic.\u00a0 An easy solution is to install Thunderbird first on the old computer, and have it import all account settings, mail, address books, etc. from Outlook Express.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when i connect the old hard drive to the new computer to copy the users documents and other data, I simply replace the Thunderbird folder in the new computer located at C:\\Users\\UserName\\AppData\\Roaming with the Thunderbird folder from the old C: drive, which in XP is located in C:\\Documents and Settings\\UserName\\Application Data.<\/p>\n<p>Works like a charm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was helping a client move their data from their old Windows XP machine to a new Windows 7 unit.\u00a0 They were concerned about changes in the mail program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtek.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}