Also see my response to your post under the topic "Problems on Windows 10 - using Pmail 4.70.

Dear colleagues,

Out of sheer necessity, as my old laptop is giving signs of terminal senility[:'(], I have now to move to a new computer running under W7. Quite a change as I skipped Vista.

Until now, when movig from one machine to another, I normally installed PM, the copied the whole MAIL folder to the new machine. As a result, in the MAIL folder there are a number of very old files, some dating back to 2007 (when I last had to switch computers). Is there any other more reasonable way to transfer my mail folders, etc?

MTIA

Regards,

Janos

When you view the old Mail folder, sort the list by date, and select only the newer files for copying. You can hold the CTRL key down to select individual files, or hold the SHIFT key down to select files between the currently highlighted file and the one you subsequently click on.

When you paste the new files to your new installation, open up Pegasus and check that all seems fine.

Cheers

[quote user="Janos Fazakas"]

Dear colleagues,

Out of sheer necessity, as my old laptop is giving signs of terminal senility[:'(], I have now to move to a new computer running under W7. Quite a change as I skipped Vista.

Until now, when movig from one machine to another, I normally installed PM, the copied the whole MAIL folder to the new machine. As a result, in the MAIL folder there are a number of very old files, some dating back to 2007 (when I last had to switch computers). Is there any other more reasonable way to transfer my mail folders, etc?

[/quote]

The function of the files is more important than their age.

You need to establish that, inter alia from the filename and extension, and discard those that are no longer required.

I have read with interest the problems associated with trying to move/transfer Pegasus Mail from one computer to another. I have the same problem switching from my Windows XP desktop to a new Windows 7 laptop.

 Please can anyone offer a simple procedure for doing this ? I have tried simply installing a new Pegasus Mail in the laptop and then transferring all the previous ADMIN & MAIL files but without success.

Thanks

John W

I recently moved from a XP desktop to a Win7 desktop.

Firstly I installed Pegasus on the Win7 machine.

I then closed Pegasus and renamed the newly installed MAIL folder to MAILOLD.

I then copied the MAIL folder and sub folders (ADMIN etc) from the XP machine to the Win7 machine.

Started Pegasus and all was fine.

As long as the folder structure is copied as it was, you should be fine.

Cheers

I think the "official" way to move PMAIL was to copy program and data, and run PCONFIG.EXE to change the directory names. PCONFIG.EXE is a 16-bit program and doesn't run in 64-bit Windows. There may be better ways, but I moved two coexisting installations thusly: Copied the program directory, and data directory (default name MAIL; may or may not be a subdirectory of the program directory) to new locations; then used a hex file editor (Frhed) to edit PMAIL.CFG for each installation, in the program directory; in my case at least it had two identical entries like "D:\Pegasus\Personal\MAIL\~8", and was filled with NUL characters (hex 0). Changed these to where I'd moved the mail directory to, "c:\Program Files (x86)\Pegasus\Personal\MAIL\~8",being very careful to overwrite, not insert, so as not to change the offset position of the second entry.

HTH

[quote user="pol098"]Changed these to where I'd moved the mail directory to, "c:\Program Files (x86)\Pegasus\Personal\MAIL\~8",being very careful to overwrite, not insert, so as not to change the offset position of the second entry.[/quote]

I'm really surprised you got it working at all since absolutely no application is allowed to write its work data to any "Program files" (sub)directory if you don't turn off User Access Control on the respective system completely - which is strongly deprecated ...

Does anyone have a simple, user friendly, idiot's guide to transferring existing emails, mailboxes etc etc from an XP (SP3) machine to a Windows 10 64 bit machine.  I have posted a similar request elsewhere and hope that someone, somewhere in the pmail community can help.  I'm sure that I'm not the only one with this problem, but I can't find an answer anywhere.  Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place!!!

Much depends on how Pmail is currently configured.

Go to Help (toolbar) | About Pegasus Mail | Info and post the settings here for further assistance.