creating a pst file and importing

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We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued
contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I
have exported the data as csv files and would like to import them into a
trial pst file to make sure it is all going to work. If it does, I would like
to substitute the existing pst file (pretty much empty) with the new one that
I have created, which will have their data.

I am playing around with this on my workstation and I can create a new pst
file, but it does not have a Contacts folder. If I manually create one, it is
treated as a mail folder, with the wrong fields when I go to import it.

How does one create a bona fide Contacts folder in a new pst file?
 
wyocowboy said:
We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued
contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I
have exported the data as csv files and would like to import them into a
trial pst file to make sure it is all going to work. If it does, I would like
to substitute the existing pst file (pretty much empty) with the new one that
I have created, which will have their data.

I am playing around with this on my workstation and I can create a new pst
file, but it does not have a Contacts folder. If I manually create one, it is
treated as a mail folder, with the wrong fields when I go to import it.

How does one create a bona fide Contacts folder in a new pst file?
Click to expand...

An update: I did manage to get to a point where I could create a new
Contacts folder in this new pst, but it wasn't pretty. I had to shut down
Outlook, move my personal pst file into another folder so that the new pst
file was the only one in the default folder location was the new pst file.
After the expected "can't find.... pst" and pointing it to the new one, it
came up and had an empty Contacts folder.

Is there a more elegant way to do it?
 
Whenever you create a new folder, the dialog box should have a dropdown box
that allows you what type of items should go in that folder -- you must have
chosen "Mail and Post Items" (the default) instead of "Contact Items".

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Jocelyn Fiorello said:
Whenever you create a new folder, the dialog box should have a dropdown box
that allows you what type of items should go in that folder -- you must have
chosen "Mail and Post Items" (the default) instead of "Contact Items".
Click to expand...

Already tried that - got an error message that basically says that Contact
Items cannot be used for that folder. When it was in this state, the only
folder that was displaying under the new pst parent folder was Deleted Items
- Contacts was not the only folder missing.

At any rate, it is working differently for some reason this morning - I can
now display both my default pst and the new one at the same time, and all of
the expected folders are showing under the new pst folder. Wierd.
 
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