I have recently got a new laptop. Downloaded emclient and it obviously askes for the password lined to the email address. I go back to my old computer to find this and the password is ****** out so I can`t read it.
Where do I find my password to my account?
Why is this so complicated?!!
Best option is to transfer eM Client from your old laptop to your new laptop using the builtin Backup & restore built-in. That transfers everything exactly as it is now from the old one to the new laptop.
See either of the below links.
Is the backup and restore the best way to do it if you are going from a single computer license to a three computer license?
Is the backup and restore the best way to do it if you are going from a single computer license to a three computer license?
if you are not resetting up eM Client on your current computer or not changing to a new computer and just wanting to change to a new Personal licence", then go to “Menu / Help / Licence” and deactivate your old licence. Then enter your new licence key and activate again.
However if you are changing to a new computer I would reccomend doing the backup and restore, as it keeps all the current account settings, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, rules, blacklists, tags, search folders, local cache as well as also keep any data in Local Folders if you used that. So saves you setting all up again from scratch.
Then if you now have a new personal license, “after you restore the backup on your new computer”, go to “Menu / Help / Licence” and deactivate it. Then enter your new Personal licence and activate it again. It’s then ready to go straight away.
However if you don’t have anything stored in Local Folders and are not worried about loosing any current settings etc as I mentioned above, then yes you can then not do the backup and restore and just setup as brand new again, where then if you have an IMAP, Exchange, Office 365 or iCloud account, all your mail, contacts, calendar, tasks etc will come back from the server.
Note: If you have a POP mail account where all your mail is (by default) downloaded to eM Client and removed from the server, then if you don’t do the backup and restore, you will normally loose all your mail, unless you have exported it to your computer via either .eml msg files or stored it in a .emdf external data file on your computer.
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