Pegasus Mail & Mercury

My old PC died and I have mounted the old hard drive in a caddy and I can access it from my new PC.  I can see all the folders but I don't know which ones to move or where to move them to.  Can you give me a step by step instruction?  I have downloaded the latest Pegasus mail to the new PC.

 

Thanks, John

> My old PC died and I have mounted the old hard drive in a caddy and I
> can access it from my new PC.  I can see all the folders but I don't
> know which ones to move or where to move them to.  Can you give me a
> step by step instruction?  I have downloaded the latest Pegasus mail
> to the new PC.

Here's how you move Pegasus Mail from one system to another.  

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info and note all the
    directories.  This is the directory structure you want to
    backup.

2.  Use the Windows backup program to backup the entire
    structure. In the multiuser made this means you'll have to
    backup the top level structure to get all the user
    directories. You can simply ZIP these directories to a
    CDROM and restore on the other end as well.

3.  Restore this to the new computer.  


Note:

A.  If you are using a CDROM for backup make sure that the
    files did not get marked read only.  Use Explorer and check
    the file properties.

B.  If you changed drive letters then run pconfig.exe and
    change the drive letter of the home and new mail directory
    to match the new location. You also should check the
    Mailbox: line in the *.PND files and make sure it's blank.

C.  If you want to upgrade in the process do it after you transfer
    the files and install it over the old installation using exactly
    the same directory structure and options.

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

Thank you for your advice.  I will try to do as you suggest but as the files are on the old drive which is in a seperate caddy, they are simply visible in windows explorer, so I'm not sure exactly if it will be possible to actually back them up - and would this be necessary since they are, in a way, backed up already on the old hard drive. 

How can I go to 'help' in the old version of Pegaus as I can't open it, because its in the caddy?  Or did you mean go to 'help' in the new PC's Pegasus?

Sorry but I'm only averagely computer literate.  :-)

 John

Copy the Pegasus Mail installation from the old hard drive to the new hard drive maintaining the original drive and directory settings of the old system if possible.  That is, if you had installed it to c:\pmail on the old system make sure it's c:\pmail on the new system. 

You can then create a shortcut to the  winpm-32.exe program file and run the program.  If you cannot maintain the drive and directory then go to the ..\pmail\programs directory and run pconfig.exe and reset to home and new mail directory spec to match the new location.

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

a good way to move pmail is installing the program from the setup file on your computer in the same directory as on your old computer. then simply copy the old files over the new installed one. this works pretty well. i use it to synchronize up to three notebooks that way. to make it faster i use a sync tool called viceversa, but it should work with any tool you can get. synctoy is a free tool available from microsoft, working with vista.

Thanks for the advice guys.  I'll see how I get on and report back

 

John

Hi Thomas, I've copied the files to the new C drive but how do I make a short cut to winpm-32.exe?

 

John

Right click your desktop, select New > Shortcut, browse to c:\pmail\winpm-32.exe (or wherever it is on your system)

 

I seem to be having problems doing what seems to be a simple operation!!  I made the short cut as suggested but when I click it, it tries to run setup pegasus again.  What am I doing wrong here? 

 

John

 

 

I assume you installed to c:\pmail.  The shortcut should be pointing to c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.exe.  When running pconfig.exe from the programs directory it should show c:\pmail\mail\~8 for the HOME and NEW mail directory. 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

You've got the patience of a saint Thomas! 

I can't find c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.exe.

Only the same without the exe, except for

c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.exe.manifest and

c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.dat. 

Hang on I've short cutted to  c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.  It's opened but is asking me for my 'user name' but I haven't given it one yet.  Now what do I do?

 John

You are probably set to hide file extensions, I really do not know why MS does this.  If it's asking for a user name then the path is probably wrong in pconfig.exe.  I assume that the mail directory is c:\pmail\mail and in this directory you have only the file pmail.usr and a subdirectory called admin.  If so the program should not be asking for a user name. Check to see if you have c:\pmail\mail\~8 in the HOME and NEW mail directory spec.

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

OK, you were right, I've unhidden the files but there is no sign of a home file, nor the exe file and yet Pegasus opens when I click the icon on desktop. 

Should I uninstall Pegasus and reinstall or won't that make any difference.  I have used Pegasus for years and have never had any problems with it until now.  How difficult can it be to simply transfer the Pegasus files from an old hard drive mounted in a caddy to the new hard drive?

If I right click on the icon and open file location it shows winpm-32  - application in the programs under pmail.  That is what I short cutted to and that produced the user name request.  But if that icon opens Pegasus that must be right so why does it want a username?

I don't want to give up on Pegasus its got all my files from 2000 and I need them all, but I don't know where to go next, and further suggestions would be much appreciated. 

John

It's not hard at all, it's a simple copy IF you maintain the same drive letter and directory.  Even if you do not all you have to do is reset them using pconfig.exe.  All you have to do after that is create a shortcut to run the program.

This also assumes that your new system does not block access to the files and folders.

  If I right click on the icon and open file location it shows winpm-32  - application in the programs under pmail.  That is what I short cutted to and that produced the user name request.  But if that icon opens Pegasus that must be right so why does it want a username?

If the path that is shown in the setup does not result in Pegasus Mail finding a pmail.usr at then it's lost and will ask for a username. 

FWIW, the reason your system does not show a winpm-32.exe is that it is set to hide the file extensions of registered file types.

 

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

One last try.  Under C:\ I have currently PMAIL and PMAIL2.  PMAIL subfolders include MAIL and Programs.
PMAIL 2 has DEFAULTS, MAIL and RESOURCE

PMAIL 2 was in the old PC.  

 

John