How To Convert Outlook Express To Outlook

Facing problems in moving your files from Outlook Express to Outlook?

Want to convert your files from DBX to PST format?

Or looking for a DBX To PST Converter?

If you have all these questions, in your mind then trust you are reading the best article for this.

With the help of this article, you will understand the ways or manual techniques to convert all of your files from Outlook Express to Outlook email client. Both these email client from Microsoft are different in nature and working type but are one of the most sought after email clients by most of us.

To understand the procedure to convert DBX to PST files, you need to understand what is DBX and PST files.

DBX: .dbx file extensions are used by Microsoft Outlook Express to store its data. OE stores all its data like emails, contacts and all in .dbx format

PST: Whereas .pst file is a different type of file. This files extension is used by Microsoft Outlook to store its data.

So .dbx is for OE and .pst is for Microsoft Outlook.

Hope the difference between these two files is clear now to you.

It mostly happens, when you were earlier using Microsoft Outlook Express for your day to day work but you have been assigned a new email client named Microsoft Outlook for your next project. So the biggest issue with this is that to transfer all your earlier files and messages from Outlook Express to Outlook or to convert all your files from DBX to PST format.

It can be done manually but it is not an easy task as this process takes time plus there is a good chance that it will not able to convert all your files from DBX to PST format. So there are guys, who do lookout for good DBX to PST converters. As these converters are quite effective and reliable but do keep n mind that they have a price tag too.

So let’s not get into the price tags or DBX to PST Converters.

And let’s see how much efficient we are to move Outlook Express files to Outlook.

For this manual procedure you have to download Windows Live Mail.

To convert DBX to PST format, we first have to find a copy of the entire database of your Microsoft Outlook Express. As Without this data, it would be hard to import it to Outlook. To find out the location you may follow this step by step process.

• Go to Outlook Express’s Tools
• Then click on Options
• Then select Maintenance Tab
• And finally click onStore Folder button.

Copy this location and paste this location in Windows Explorer’s address bar.

I hope you have downloaded and installed Windows Live Mail from the above link.

If yes, then do it now.

So after downloading and installing it in your system, we would follow these steps to import Outlook Express files to Live Mail. And this is our second step to convert files from Outlook Express to Outlook.

• Open Windows Live
• Click on File
• Now Select Import Messages

• Now choose Microsoft Outlook Express in Select the format you want to import email from
  

• Now browse the location of the saved .dbx files
  

• Now select the folders you are looking to import and click Next
  

• And you importing is done.
  

Now in the final part to convert Outlook Express To Outlook, we would need both outlook and Live Mail.

For that, we would open both of these email clients simultaneously.

• Now i

  n Windows Live mail, go to File
• Click on Export Email
• Then select Email Messages

• Now choose Microsoft Exchange in Select the format you want to export email to
  

• Click Ok as soon as this message will pop-up This will export messages from Windows Live Mail to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange
  

• Then select the folders that you would like to export
  

• Click Ok and your conversion of DBX to PST is complete.
  

So finally we are done with the migration process and completed our Outlook Express To Outlook files conversion. But wait, there is a small note which you have to keep in mind and that is, these manual techniques are good but don’t work as per our plan all the time. There are many cases where this technique has corrupted the user’s .dbx files.

If you are looking for a good DBX to PST converter, then I would suggest you to go for

DBX To PST Converter from SysInfoTools.

I have tested their tool and found it amazing. It has some awesome features, which I couldn’t find in any other tools.

Hope you liked this article on conversion of files of Outlook Express to Outlook.