New Computer

[parkie]

Can anyone help please? I have just bought a new Acer all in one. I re-registered both of my email accounts onto it, (Windows 8), but although all of one of the accounts has transferred including the contacts etc, the main google account on which we have our bank account details and other account details has not transferred. Only the gmail page.
Any suggestions please?

[Buenchico]

I'm lost!

There are two ways of receiving email. One is to use a proper email client (such as Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird). The other is to use web-based access.

If you use an email client (with the default settings) then any email you access is downloaded onto your computer and no longer exists anywhere else. So if you get rid of your computer, you've lost you Inbox and everything else held within your email client (unless you exported all of the relevant files to external media first, and then import them to the new computer's email client).

If you use web-based access then your emails are stored on the server of your email supplier, so that they can be viewed from any computer. You don't need to do anything at all when you change computers.

Gmail can be viewed either via an email client, or using web-based access, so how are you trying to do it?

[smurfchops]

Chris, could I ask a similar question -- I use Mozilla Firefox and have BT broadband with btinternet. If I buy a new laptop, will all my btinternet emails remain? I suppose I will lose all my Mozilla bookmarks?? Thanks

[smurfchops]

Hope you don't mind me butting in on your question parkie !!

[Buenchico]

[With apologies to Parkie]

Smurfchops:
If you view your email by going to a web page (in Firefox, for example), it doesn't matter which computer you're using. (You could visit a friend in Australia and use their computer. You'd still be logging into the same web page).

If you use an email client (such as Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird) you'd need to export your emails to a USB stick (or other external media) and then re-import them into the email client on your new computer. [I'd need to know which email client you're using to be able to provide you with specific instructions].

To transfer your Firefox bookmarks from one computer to another, export them from the 'old' computer as an HTML file, which you can store on a USB memory stick. Instructions here:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
Then plug the memory stick into the 'New'computer, open Firefox and repeat the above procedure but using the 'Import Bookmarks from HTML' option.

[parkie]

Thanks very much both of you. Sorry about the delay. Had to go out.
The e-mails don't appear to be the problem really. They exported ok but the contacts I have, didn't. There's about 180 of them and they are in different groups. At the moment I am dealing with that part of it via my old laptop so there's problem in that respect. It's just that I don't want to keep jumping from one to the other.
I am receiving emails ok on the new computer which are also still going through to my lap top. They are both on wireless.