How do I get my calendar off of a slave drive (old primary)?

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My old computer crashed, so I have slaved the drive to the new comp. Before
I did, however I was able to archive, although I am not sure I did this
correctly. In any case, the archives and the origanl Outlook data are on
this slave drive. How do I get it off of there and into the Outlook on my
new comp? All I care about is the calendar.

Office Professional on Windows 98 to Office Professional on XP. The file
architecture is different, although I have located the .pst files.
 
First of all, does your computer recognize the slave? On My Computer, does a
drive D: appear?

Wendy S. Hill
 
Yes, of course. Here is the current situation:

Slave has multiple archives which I made before I removed the drive from the
old comp. This drive also has the Data File.

How can I get New Outlook to be exactly like Old Outlook? That's probably
the best way to put it. If you are familiar with this, you may call me
865.300.5049

I'm really desperate to get this done as it is a Law Firm's computer and the
calendar has all it's billing information for the last year. This needs to
be done ASAP.
 
You need Milly's help. See if you can understand the reply to the previous
thread, "Importing caendar from Outlook XP..." She explains how to do it
there.
 
Try this:

Locate your old .pst file on the slave drive using Windows Search and ensure
you have ticked the advance option to search hidden files.

Once located, remember the location, you may want to write it down. Or just
move it to your new drive, your choice. If you do move it to your new
drive, do not overwrite the new .pst file. Put it in My Documents or
someplace easy to remember.

Open Outlook and in File->Open->Outlook Data file, browse to your saved file
(My Documents if you used my suggestion.) Open the new .pst file that
appears in your folder tree using the + arrow to expand the folders.

Open the calendar and change the view to By Category. Select all, right
click and drag all of the entries to the calendar FOLDER where you want
them.

Of course, the easiest way is to just re-use your old .pst file and skip all
of the above.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, The Naz asked:

| Yes, of course. Here is the current situation:
|
| Slave has multiple archives which I made before I removed the drive
| from the old comp. This drive also has the Data File.
|
| How can I get New Outlook to be exactly like Old Outlook? That's
| probably the best way to put it. If you are familiar with this, you
| may call me 865.300.5049
|
| I'm really desperate to get this done as it is a Law Firm's computer
| and the calendar has all it's billing information for the last year.
| This needs to be done ASAP.
|
| "Wendy Hill" wrote:
|
|| First of all, does your computer recognize the slave? On My
|| Computer, does a drive D: appear?
||
|| Wendy S. Hill
||
||
|| "The Naz" wrote:
||
||| My old computer crashed, so I have slaved the drive to the new
||| comp. Before I did, however I was able to archive, although I am
||| not sure I did this correctly. In any case, the archives and the
||| origanl Outlook data are on this slave drive. How do I get it off
||| of there and into the Outlook on my new comp? All I care about is
||| the calendar.
|||
||| Office Professional on Windows 98 to Office Professional on XP.
||| The file architecture is different, although I have located the
||| .pst files.
 
It appears to me that the drag and drop would require the old calendar to be
open. Thoughts?
 
According to Microsoft Outlook Help, here is where the file should be saved to:

drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Good luck!

Wendy S. Hill
 
This is from "Help" documentation for Outlook 2003, "Outlook File Locations"
under "Backing Up Files"

Yours may be different for Outlook 2002/XP.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Outlook data files (.pst)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Offline Folders file (.ost)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Personal Address Book (.pab)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Offline Address Books (.oab)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Command bar and menu customizations (.dat)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Navigation Pane settings (.xml)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.xml
This file includes Shortcuts, Calendar, and Contact links.

Registered Microsoft Exchange extensions (.dat)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Outlook contacts nicknames (.nk2)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Rules (.rwz)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

If you upgraded from a version of Outlook prior to Outlook 2002, you may
have a .rwz file on your computer hard disk drive. The file is no longer
needed and the rules information is now kept on the server for Microsoft
Exchange e-mail accounts, and within the personal folders file (.pst)
(Personal Folders file (.pst): Data file that stores your messages and other
items on your computer. You can assign a .pst file to be the default delivery
location for e-mail messages. You can use a .pst to organize and back up
items for safekeeping.) for POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts. You can delete the
file.

If you use the rules import or export feature, the default location for .rwz
files is drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents.
Print styles (Outlprnt with no extension)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Signatures (.rtf, .txt, .htm)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

Stationary (.htm)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Stationary

Custom forms
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Forms

Dictionary (.dic)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof

Templates (.oft)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

Send/Receive settings (.srs)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Message (.msg, .htm, .rtf)
drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents
 
On second thought, just configure Outlook to use your old .pst file unless
the calendar is all you want.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, The Naz asked:

| It appears to me that the drag and drop would require the old
| calendar to be open. Thoughts?
|
| "Wendy Hill" wrote:
|
|| You need Milly's help. See if you can understand the reply to the
|| previous thread, "Importing caendar from Outlook XP..." She explains
|| how to do it there.
||
|| "The Naz" wrote:
||
||| Yes, of course. Here is the current situation:
|||
||| Slave has multiple archives which I made before I removed the drive
||| from the old comp. This drive also has the Data File.
|||
||| How can I get New Outlook to be exactly like Old Outlook? That's
||| probably the best way to put it. If you are familiar with this,
||| you may call me 865.300.5049
|||
||| I'm really desperate to get this done as it is a Law Firm's
||| computer and the calendar has all it's billing information for the
||| last year. This needs to be done ASAP.
|||
||| "Wendy Hill" wrote:
|||
|||| First of all, does your computer recognize the slave? On My
|||| Computer, does a drive D: appear?
||||
|||| Wendy S. Hill
||||
||||
|||| "The Naz" wrote:
||||
||||| My old computer crashed, so I have slaved the drive to the new
||||| comp. Before I did, however I was able to archive, although I am
||||| not sure I did this correctly. In any case, the archives and the
||||| origanl Outlook data are on this slave drive. How do I get it
||||| off of there and into the Outlook on my new comp? All I care
||||| about is the calendar.
|||||
||||| Office Professional on Windows 98 to Office Professional on XP.
||||| The file architecture is different, although I have located the
||||| .pst files.
 
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