Copy To Application Data Folders

[Bilbo]

I have a user whose PC crashed. The hard drive was corrupted but I
was able to salvage most of the data including the Windows XP Profile.

On Vista, when I try to copy default.nk2 to the Microsoft\Outlook
folder in Application Data, I'm denied access even though I have an
administrator account. This makes it kind'a tough to support my users
who've moved to Vista for various and sundry reasons.

I can import the .PST files but I can't restore the .NK2 files. This
doesn't make a heckuva lotta sense to me.

How can I solve this problem? Buy another XP before June 30?

Frustrated,

 

[DL]

You would'nt be doing your users any favours by Importing/Exporting native
OL data, the process loses both settings & data

 

[Bilbo]

If you don't have an answer, suggest it's a bad idea? Is that it?

I think you're dead wrong. The user would LOVE to have all their
AUTOCOMPLETE data back in Outlook.

These precious "settings" you allude to can be re-created but only
someone with a photographic memory could re-type all the autocomplete
data.

 

[Dave]

In Vista, "Application Data" is a junction point, not a folder.
It has been replaced with "AppData", located under the users folder.
ie. C:\Users\(login)\AppData

I'm not familiar with the NK2 file, but I have Outlook installed (but I only
use the calendar). I do have a .NK2 file (0 KB) in
C:\Users\(login)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook

 

[DL]

The inability to copy the nk2 file is likely a Vista file protection
problem, you have renamed the current nk2?

I was refering to the Import/Export of native OL data which you stated you
were going to do, and as such is the wrong method of moving OL data. A quick
search of any of the OL groups would have confirmed this.
The sttings I refer to are those in the pst file, Exporting/Importing loses
these, together with rules They are *not* the autocomplete data.

 

[Bilbo]

Thanks. That's what I was looking for.
The AutoComplete data is stored in the .NK2 file. I know of no other
settings there. I've had to move it from PC to PC in the past and it
always worked as desired. Vista threw a monkey-wrench into the mix.
Bilbo