Can't import contacts or appointments from old hard drive.

[Guest]

Question/details/images of situation at www.daymented.com/outlook.ht
This is driving me batty - all of the contacts and appointments are *somewhere* on my hard drive but I can't find them/access them
Please respond in comments on that page (above
Thanks SO much
scd
(P.S. Yes yes YES I imported my .pst folder.)

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Don't mess with import - find the old pst and use file, open, outlook data
file.

 

[Guest]

Um, what am I opening
My choices in F:.../Outlook are
extend (no file type
Microsoft Outlook Internet Setting
Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings.NIC
Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings.RW
outcm

Are any of those my contacts or calendar items

----- Diane Poremsky wrote: ----

Don't mess with import - find the old pst and use file, open, outlook data
file

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hour
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide

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[Tina Jaworski]

what if on trying to open the pst file, it says read only. When I change
the ro attribute, it won't let me due to the CD rom? Any thoughts? Also,
when trying to open the file in outlook, it says access denied...is this
related to the read only? Any advice?

Thanks!
tina

Don't mess with import - find the old pst and use file, open, outlook data
file.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Question/details/images of situation at www.daymented.com/outlook.htm
This is driving me batty - all of the contacts and appointments are
*somewhere* on my hard drive but I can't find them/access them!
Please respond in comments on that page (above)
Thanks SO much.
scd.
(P.S. Yes yes YES I imported my .pst folder.)