Unable to export and import mails/data in AOL Desktop Gold?

It is not rare when you need to transfer your existing desktop gold data to a new desktop gold software/account. Having a secure backup of your personal account data is essential, as you never know when & how things can go wrong!

This guide tells you how to transfer data from:

• AOL Desktop gold to another Computer

• Previous desktop gold software version to New desktop gold.

• Steps to manually backup AOL desktop gold personal data

Important: The personal data includes your Mail, contacts, bookmarks, saved passwords, Favorites, usernames, Address Book, and tools settings.

So let’s start!

Before going into solutions, if you’re still using the older desktop gold software:

• Download AOL

• And learn how to - Install AOL desktop gold software

One of the core benefits you will get with Desktop Gold software is that it allows you to save your essentials data including emails, bookmarks, etc. So that you can easily transfer and use it on another computer whenever needed.

To export mails/data from your AOL desktop gold, you just need to follow the below steps:

1. To start with, launch your AOL desktop gold Download program and sign in using the authenticate username and password associated with your account. While punching your password DO NOT forget to use the shift button to enter capital letters. Otherwise, it will prompt an error.

2. Once you successfully get into your account, navigate to the Settings icon.

3. Under the Setting menu, search and locate the General Settings>>>now, click on the My Data option.

4. Next, you will see the Export tab, simply click on it to export mails.

5. You will be prompted to select the file location to save. Choose your preferred file location.

Note: If you did not specify a file location. By default, the file will be saved in My Documents folder labeled as ‘Desktop Backup’.

6. At last, hit the save button.

7. To add more security, you will be asked to set a password to your export file to prevent it from any unauthorized access. If you choose to set a password, you will be required to provide it while importing the file to another Computer.

Important: Do not close your Computer Window or export progress Window to avoid any interruption.

8. Once the exporting process is completed, store your export file to any secondary storage device such as a removable USB flash drive.

While performing the above-said steps, if your AOL desktop gold icon stops responding then you may try to restart your device.

After exporting the file, now you can import this file to any Computer.

1. Launch your other Computer into which you need to export your data.

2. Sign in to your AOL Desktop Gold account>>>>go to ‘Settings’ icon>>>>now choose ‘General Settings’>>>>and finally select ‘My Data’ tab.

3. Under this menu, click on the ‘Import’ icon.

4. You will be prompted to select the file you want to import>>>>choose the USB flash drive>>>>and then select the file you recently exported. Remember you need to insert the same password at this stage which you have created during import.

5. Finally, wait until the import completes.

Note: Follow the same sequence of steps if you want to transfer data from old AOL software to desktop gold.

For better user experience, AOL desktop gold Download keeps updating itself from time to time. If you’ve recently installed the latest desktop gold version and want to export the data from your earlier installed program, here is what you need to do:

1. Login to your desktop gold software. In case, login is not working, go ahead troubleshooting guide on AOL desktop gold login error

2. Next, search through the menu bar until you locate the ‘File’ option.

3. On to this option, pick ‘Import Wizard’

4. Now hit the OK tab to begin the export process.

5. Allow the confirmation message by simply clicking OK.

The above said all methods are applicable if you want to create a backup file for each and every data including Export & import mails/data of your AOL desktop gold account. In a scenario, you only want to access your email contacts, you should try the below steps :

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