Cannot import calendar.pst

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Karl

I exported my calendar.pst to a USB drive prior to removing Office 2003 due
to mail problems. After re-installing and getting mail to work properly I
tried to import the calendar from the USB drive. When I get to the Select
the folder to import from the only option is Personal Folder, not the E drive
which I selected in the previous screen. How can I get to the E drive?
Thanks,
Karl
 
Do not import.

Copy the .pst file to your hard drive and from Outlook, use
File->Open->Outlook Data File and open that .pst file. Display your
calendar in a by category view, select all and right click and drag to the
new Calendar FOLDER. Select either copy or move.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Karl asked:

| I exported my calendar.pst to a USB drive prior to removing Office
| 2003 due to mail problems. After re-installing and getting mail to
| work properly I tried to import the calendar from the USB drive.
| When I get to the Select the folder to import from the only option is
| Personal Folder, not the E drive which I selected in the previous
| screen. How can I get to the E drive? Thanks,
| Karl
 
Milly,
Nothing happens when I open the .pst from File>Open>Outlook Data File.
Where did I go wrong?

Thanks,
Karl
 
Can you open the file from your USB stick? If not, then it seems that your saved .pst file is corrupt.

Again, copy it to your hard drive and then run scanpst.exe against that file. Report back what happens (although I have a bad feeling about it)

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Karl asked:

| Milly,
| Nothing happens when I open the .pst from File>Open>Outlook Data File.
| Where did I go wrong?
|
| Thanks,
| Karl
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Do not import.
||
|| Copy the .pst file to your hard drive and from Outlook, use
|| File->Open->Outlook Data File and open that .pst file. Display your
|| calendar in a by category view, select all and right click and drag
|| to the new Calendar FOLDER. Select either copy or move.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Karl asked:
||
||| I exported my calendar.pst to a USB drive prior to removing Office
||| 2003 due to mail problems. After re-installing and getting mail to
||| work properly I tried to import the calendar from the USB drive.
||| When I get to the Select the folder to import from the only option
||| is Personal Folder, not the E drive which I selected in the previous
||| screen. How can I get to the E drive? Thanks,
||| Karl
 
I exported my calendar.pst to a USB drive prior to removing Office 2003 due
to mail problems.
Click to expand...

Didn't you want your other Outlook data as well, like your contacts, tasks,
and as much mail as you could save? Outlook keeps all of its data in the
same file; there's no separate "calendar pst". Exporting is never the way
to transfer data Outlook-to-Outlook and it loses data. Moreover,
uninstalling and reinstalling is rarely the correct solution to getting
Outlook to work.

Go back to the original PST, simply open that, and copy the data to your new
PST.
 
Milly,
I ran scanpst.exe against both the calendar.pst on the USB drive and the
copy I moved to the hard drive. No errors were found on either. What do you
think? By the way, in response to Brian... I was able to restore all my
other .pst folders, i.e. mail, contacts, etc. It is only the calendar.pst
that I am having trouble with!
Thanks,
Karl
 
By the way, in response to Brian... I was able to restore all my
other .pst folders, i.e. mail, contacts, etc. It is only the calendar.pst
that I am having trouble with!
Click to expand...

This doesn't make any sense because all of Outlook's folders are in the same
file. If you have one of them, you have all of them. Just OPEN the
ORIGINAL PST (forget you ever heard the words "export" and "import") and
you'll have access to all of the data it contains. Naturally, if you're
using the Mail view of the Nav Pane, you won't see any non-mail folders
(like Calendar, Contacts, etc.), so switch to the Folder List view with the
button at the bottom of the Nav Pane or by pressing Ctrl-6.
 
Brian,

I don't have an original pst as I deleted everything off my notebook after
exporting individual pst folders to a USB drive. The individual folders are
all that I have and everything but the calendar pst imported fine.
Thanks,
Karl
 
I don't have an original pst as I deleted everything off my notebook after
exporting individual pst folders to a USB drive. The individual folders
are
all that I have and everything but the calendar pst imported fine.
Click to expand...

And when you said "nothing happens" when you tried to follow Milly's advice,
exactly what does that mean? Does it mean the PST wouldn't open? It did
open but appears empty? It opened, there's a calendar folder in it, but the
calendar folder it empty? Please be precise in describing exactly what you
do and what happens when you do it.
 
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