And Russ is a respected Cardiologist - duelling degrees don't matter to
Outlook - it is just as ornery to uneducated folks as it is to those with
advanced degrees.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Brian asked:
| One may, but I prefer to rely on my PhD in IT.
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| One must wonder how you backed up your data.
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| My data drive is FAT32, but with no OS. And yes, I know
||| which files to copy - I've done this before, quite
||| successfully.
|||
||| The inbox repair tool confirms the presence of folders
||| but no items for each of the backups I have on my data
||| drive. I have also taken the most recent backup, moved
||| this to the outlook folder and renamed it to outlook.pst
||| so Outlook XP opens it, and I can see the folders but no
||| contacts, emails, etc.
|||
||| I guess this means I've lost it all?
|||
|||
||| Thanks,
|||
|||
||| Brian
|||
|||
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| Surely the data drive is formatted, though, or your OS wouldn't
|||| even see it. I suspect you mean you just don't have an OS on that
|||| drive. Are you sure you copied the right file?
|||| The Inbox Repair Tool should have an icon in Office Tools. If not,
|||| search for "scanpst.exe" and run it against the file.
||||
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|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| I just found and copied the pst file created by Outlook
||||| 2000 from the outlook location to my backup folder,
||||| nothing else. And I didn't format my data hard disk when
||||| I moved from 2000 to XP, so everything I put there should
||||| be the same as before. It's what I've done before when I
||||| needed to re-build my machine under 2000, so I assumed it
||||| would work this time as well.
|||||
||||| I haven't tried the inbox repair tool - didn't know there
||||| was one. How do I do it?
|||||
|||||
||||| Thanks,
|||||
||||| Brian
|||||
|||||| -----Original Message-----
|||||| Reinstalling Outlook 2000 won't help. PST files are perfectly
|||||| compatible between the versions. That is not the problem.
||||||
|||||| What do you mean your data drive isn't formatted? You still did
|||||| not tell me how you created this PST file. Have you tried
|||||| running the Inbox Repair Tool on this PST file?
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|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| I transferred it by copying it from my c drive to my d
||||||| drive (separate physical drives). I've only formatted my
||||||| c drive, my d drive is for data only.
|||||||
||||||| I've got other older backups, and the same thing is
||||||| happening with them, but I've restored them into Outlook
||||||| 2000 before, so I don't understand why they won't go into
||||||| Outlook 2002.
|||||||
||||||| If I could, I would uninstall Office XP and reinstall
||||||| Office 2000 to see if it will open there again, but I'm
||||||| not sure about being able to activate Office XP on the
||||||| same product number again afterwards. Is this possible?
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| Brian
|||||||| -----Original Message-----
|||||||| How did you transfer this PST file?
|||||||| If you open it and it has no data, it is either
| not
||||| the
||||||| correct file or it
|||||||| is corrupted.
|||||||| --
|||||||| Russ Valentine
|||||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||||| ||||||||| I want to import the email messages from my previous
||||||||| (Outlook 2000) pst into my new Outlook 2002 default
||||||||| folder - contacts, inbox, sent items, calendar, etc.
|||||||||
||||||||| I know where my old pst file is. I open Outlook 2002. I
||||||||| have tried using the import mechanism, the open data
||||||||| folder option, and the set up new default account. Each
||||||||| time, Outlook 2002 opens a Personal folder with the
||||||||| default folders, but no items.
|||||||||
||||||||| I have gone to the Tools -> Options -> Mail setup -> Data
||||||||| Files, and the file is there and the file location is
||||||||| correct. I know I have items in my old pst file (it's
||||||||| about 55Mb), so why can I not see them in Outlook 2002?
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||||| Brian
|||||||||
|||||||||| -----Original Message-----
|||||||||| You did not describe in sufficient detail
| what
||| you
||||| did
||||||||| and what happened.
|||||||||| When you opened this PST file, what happened?
||||||||||
|||||||||| To use another PST file (such as one from an earlier
|||||||||| installation) and set it to be the default for your current
||| installation
||||| of
||||||||| Outlook, you will
|||||||||| first need to know the location and name of
| the
||| PST
||||||| file
||||||||| you'd like to use
|||||||||| as your new default. Then use the following directions:
||||||||||
|||||||||| - Go to Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Data Files > Add...
|||||||||| - Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close
|||||||||| OK to exit the
|||||||||| Options dialog
|||||||||| - Go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > View or change existing
|||||||||| e-mail accounts
|||||||||| - Select the PST you just added in
| the "Deliver
||||| New e-
||||||||| mail to the following
|||||||||| location" dropdown (it will most likely
| appear
||| just
||||||||| below the current
|||||||||| default Personal Folders file) > Finish
|||||||||| - Exit and Restart Outlook
|||||||||| - You can now close the previous default PST
| (R-
||||| click
||||||| on
||||||||| that pst folder
|||||||||| while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername>
|||||||||| Folders"). If you have any information in your former PST
|||||||||| that you'd
||| like
||||| to
||||||||| transfer to your new
|||||||||| default PST, you can drag and drop from one
| to
||| the
||||||| other
||||||||| before you close
|||||||||| it.
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Russ Valentine
|||||||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||||||| |
[email protected]...
||||||||||| I have just upgraded from Win & Office 2000 to XP by
||||||||||| rebuilding my machine, rather than upgrade packages. I
||||||||||| have backed up my old Outlook 2000 pst, and need to
||||||||||| import the contacts, emails, etc into my new Outlook XP
||||||||||| (2002).
|||||||||||
||||||||||| I have tried creating a new account linked
| to
||| the
||||||| pst
||||||||||| file, I have tried the file import option, and the
||||||||||| file/open data file option. My PC is a standalone
||||||||||| machine, so I'm not linked to a network. Outlook XP
||||||||||| recognises the file and shows the Personal folder, but
||||||||||| there are no contacts or emails shown in it.
|||||||||||
||||||||||| This process always worked if I had to
| rebuild
||||| 2000,
||||||||| how
||||||||||| can I get it to work with XP? And I've read the
||||||||||| slipstick articles - they haven't solved
| the
||||||| problem.
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