Re: Moving Opera Mail to a New Computer

["P.J.Berg" <BergRace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:50:27 +0200, Paul Bartlett <bartlett@xxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, P.J.Berg wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:57:14 +0200, Paul Bartlett <bartlett@xxxxxxxxx>  
> > wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
>
> > > I still have the setup executable for Opera 9.25.  All I really need to
> > > do is transfer my bookmarks (I have a lot) and mail.  At present Opera
> > > is a secondary mail agent for me, although I am using it more and  
> > > more. Unfortunately I am not a "heavy" computer person, and I am  
> > > unsure just
> > > how to get my mail transferred over to the new machine.  Would it be
> > > sufficient just to copy over the C:\Program Files\Opera\Mail\ directory
> > > and all its subdirectories, or do I need to do something else?
> >
> > If you run the same setup/version that should be all what is necessary.
>
> Yes, but how do I move all the mail from the existing machine over to
> the new machine?  Just running setup on the new machine won't move
> anything from one machine to another.

You backup your existing mail-directory, then replace the new directory in  
the fresh install with the old backup.

J.



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