Contact List from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003

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Gary Lindgren

I'm upgrading from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and also from Win2000 Pro to
WinXP Pro. I copied the old outlook.pst to the new location. All my old
e-mail is there, but I can't get the Contact list. Is it possible to import
the old contact list from Office2000 to Office2003. I get messages about
unicode etc.
Gary
 
Why import?
Just open the PST file.
If your Contacts aren't there, you copied the wrong file.
 
After assistance from Microsoft, I have the solution. Outlook2000 and
Outlook2003 do not use the exactly same file definition. Outlook2003 uses
Unicode. The problem that I had was that outlook.pst file was corrupted. So
I started with a new profile (generates the Outlook.pst file). I then
Imported my old Outlook.pst file from Outlook2000. Everything OK now. All
the information is there now.
Thank you,
 
Just so no one misunderstands your misinterpretation here: All previous
Outlook version PST files are perfectly compatible with Outlook 2003. Only a
newly created PST files in Outlook 2003 would be incompatible with earlier
versions.
Your problem was that your PST file was corrupted--quite another matter
entirely. The solution had nothing to do with your creating a new PST file
in Outlook 2003.
 
Russ,
I think the important thing to do when moving from Outlook2000 to
Outlook2003 is to first start with the default Outlook.pst file with the all
the profile information entered. Then use the Import Wizard to get the data
from the former outlook file. Doing this you have a matrix which Outlook2003
readily understands.




Russ Valentine said:
Just so no one misunderstands your misinterpretation here: All previous
Outlook version PST files are perfectly compatible with Outlook 2003. Only a
newly created PST files in Outlook 2003 would be incompatible with earlier
versions.
Your problem was that your PST file was corrupted--quite another matter
entirely. The solution had nothing to do with your creating a new PST file
in Outlook 2003.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Gary Lindgren said:
After assistance from Microsoft, I have the solution. Outlook2000 and
Outlook2003 do not use the exactly same file definition. Outlook2003 uses
Unicode. The problem that I had was that outlook.pst file was corrupted. So
I started with a new profile (generates the Outlook.pst file). I then
Imported my old Outlook.pst file from Outlook2000. Everything OK now. All
the information is there now.
Thank you,
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Not really.
Importing a PST always loses some data.
You can readily reuse a PST from an earlier installation. The only reason to
import a PST and to move to the new format is if you think you might need to
exceed the 2 GB limit, which few users ever do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Gary Lindgren said:
Russ,
I think the important thing to do when moving from Outlook2000 to
Outlook2003 is to first start with the default Outlook.pst file with the all
the profile information entered. Then use the Import Wizard to get the data
from the former outlook file. Doing this you have a matrix which Outlook2003
readily understands.




Russ Valentine said:
Just so no one misunderstands your misinterpretation here: All previous
Outlook version PST files are perfectly compatible with Outlook 2003.
Click to expand...
Only
a
newly created PST files in Outlook 2003 would be incompatible with earlier
versions.
Your problem was that your PST file was corrupted--quite another matter
entirely. The solution had nothing to do with your creating a new PST file
in Outlook 2003.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Gary Lindgren said:
After assistance from Microsoft, I have the solution. Outlook2000 and
Outlook2003 do not use the exactly same file definition. Outlook2003 uses
Unicode. The problem that I had was that outlook.pst file was
Click to expand...
corrupted.
So
I started with a new profile (generates the Outlook.pst file). I then
Imported my old Outlook.pst file from Outlook2000. Everything OK now. All
the information is there now.
Thank you,


I'm upgrading from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and also from Win2000
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Pro
to
WinXP Pro. I copied the old outlook.pst to the new location. All my old
e-mail is there, but I can't get the Contact list. Is it possible to
import
the old contact list from Office2000 to Office2003. I get messages about
unicode etc.
Gary
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I think the important thing to do when moving from Outlook2000 to
Outlook2003 is to first start with the default Outlook.pst file with the all
the profile information entered. Then use the Import Wizard to get the data
from the former outlook file.
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Ummm, no. The best thing is to use your old PST if at all possible. If your
old file was in some way corrupted and could not be fixed with the Inbox
Repair Tool, then creating a new one was the only way. For most people
though, that should be the method of last resort.
 
The old file was not corrupted because I used it to Import the data into the
Outlook2003 profile. The problem occurred when I tried to just use a copy
from the Outlook2000 .pst. The address book data was not there.
 
Then you were opening the wrong file. Importing is never preferable to
simply reusing or opening a previous PST file. Importing can never reclaim
more data than reusing or opening a previous PST file can. By definition,
importing can only return less data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Gary Lindgren said:
The old file was not corrupted because I used it to Import the data into the
Outlook2003 profile. The problem occurred when I tried to just use a copy
from the Outlook2000 .pst. The address book data was not there.


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