Having problems exporting messages from Windows Mail.....help please!!

StevieP · 3 May 2012 at 19:01

I'm in the process of migrating my mum from an old Vista machine to a new Windows 7 machine and of course she wants to keep all of her e-mails.

It's a Gmail account so the one's held on the server are obviously no problem as they will re-download - the trouble is she has a lot of local folders that need transplanting too!

Anyway, I set to work exporting them as csv files (at first tried saving to an external drive but remembered having issues before with that so made a folder on her desktop and saved them there)

My problem has arisen whilst trying to copy the desktop folder to a USB hard drive - the transfer rate is as low as 9 bytes per second! :eek:

(yes, you read that right, not KB but B!)

It's not the drive or the USB port I'm using because if I copy anything else to it, it goes at the usual USB 2.0 speeds (around 2MB/Sec??)

Anyway, the file size is around 800MB in total so it will take a while at 9b/sec!!

Has anyone got any idea why this is happening and know how to fix it????

Thanks for any help guys.....

j6m · 3 May 2012 at 23:19

Try TeraCopy.

StevieP · 4 May 2012 at 09:17

j6m said:
Try TeraCopy.

Thanks for the reply - I'll most definitely give it a go!

The question remains though, why is the copying so slow!?!?!? I mean it's still "x" amount of data so why would it take any more time to copy across to an external drive than any other data??? :confused:

j6m · 4 May 2012 at 11:31

Small files generally take longer to copy; if you zip them up I believe they'll transfer somewhat quicker.

Dano · 4 May 2012 at 13:39

Why on earth are you exporting them as .csv? Locate the store folder and just copy it to the external drive, then import it into live mail on the new machine.

StevieP · 4 May 2012 at 20:28

Dano said:
Why on earth are you exporting them as .csv? Locate the store folder and just copy it to the external drive, then import it into live mail on the new machine.

Because I had no idea you could do it any other way!

Besides, why would copying the physical folders in question take less time than copying the .csv files??

Dano · 4 May 2012 at 20:54

Because the program isn't having to convert it all into a different format, if it is still taking as long then it's more likely that the drive itself is failing.