AOL Saved PFC--transfer to new computer?

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Hello:

I have an old desktop that I need to "restore", but before I do, I'd like to save my "AOL Saved PFC" (saved emails) off of it and put on my new computer (genealogy research and correspondence). Can someone give me directions, please? On the old desktop, I see a file icon named "AOL Saved PFC", but the folders within don't mean anything to me and can't be opened and read.....but I'm assuming this is what I need to save to CD and then load on the new computer. Once there, though, how do I access it?

Thank you for any help you can provide!
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[BedstorfromAP]

What version are you using? And what version is on your New PC?

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[Noviciate]

The .pfc extension is AOHell's Personal Filing Cabinet extension. It's almost unreadable outside of AOHell. I tried a while ago to find a solution but only found one web site professing to have an application that would do the job but didn't risk downloading it.

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Both computers are using AOL 9.0 Optimized.

Desktop is running with Win98, while Notebook is on WinXP.....if that makes a difference.

Thank you,
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[BedstorfromAP]

You'll find that the mail waiting in the Inbox is held on the Server
and you can access it on any terminal plus your address book is held there.
The Old Mail is a different matter which you want transferring
which is easy to do with AOL 9
First open your Mail box click on the Manage Email tab
In the left hand pane move down the "Tree" until you come to the label "Saved on my PC"
This is the area where all the saved mail /old mail ect. is stored
And if you go back to the "Saved on my PC" it is the only item that can be "Right clicked" for a menu OK?
And on that menu it says "Save as..." also "Open Saved Folder" [img]/images/forums/icons/wink.gif[/img]
By default it will make a file called Email.pfc which will be small enough to email to yourself or copy to floppy (in my case it was 288k) and I am a heavy user of the AOL email service
Note if you save your Mail as "Saved on AOL" it is saved wholly on AOL's server and you can access it from anywhere[img]/images/forums/icons/cool.gif[/img]. The other option saves the current 7 days mail plus any personal folder(s) which you have saved a mail for later reading(this stops the auto delete sequence) Remember that trick![img]/images/forums/icons/wink.gif[/img] I have an email stored here from well before last Xmas!(still works like new)
PS This trick works on ALL email Programs




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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! That was exactly what I needed. I guess I just didn't look around hard enough in the email area for what to do. I've never needed to do this before, but the old computer is slowly deteriorating and needs to be "recovered", but just couldn't do it til I found a way to save my genealogy research emails. You've saved me! Thanks again!

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[BedstorfromAP]

You're welcome[img]/images/forums/icons/smile.gif[/img]

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[KLP0822]

OMG I cannot tell you what a GODSEND you are with this post...I did a search online trying to find out how to do this and no one not even AOL itself could tell me how and IF it could be done..actually I spoke to aol live technical help and they pretty much told me that if I didn't save it on AOL that when I put my aol acct on my new puter I would LOSE all those old emails...this is AMAZING!! THank you again a MILLION times over...

Kimberly

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Sounds like a candidate for £25 to me. There must be a lot of grateful people out there who have used this tip. It might be worth telling AOL how to do it as well!!

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[Hello_There]

I think Mike should be the big boss of AOL.......from all his AOL advice, he seems to be the only person who knows and understands how to use it properly!! [img]/images/forums/icons/smile.gif[/img]

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