Installing old mail files

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Daniel

Hi

I have Office XP, my PC crashed and I had to format and reinstall
everything, I had a copy of most of the hard drive, is there a way I can
bring the mail from the copy to the new install?

Where is the mail kept?

thanks

Daniel
 
Copy your .pst file and open it in Outlook. Do NOT import.

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After furious head scratching, Daniel asked:

| Hi
|
| I have Office XP, my PC crashed and I had to format and reinstall
| everything, I had a copy of most of the hard drive, is there a way I
| can bring the mail from the copy to the new install?
|
| Where is the mail kept?
|
| thanks
|
| Daniel
 
Thanks

will that combine the old pst and the new pst data, as I've used the new
install of Outlook for a few days.

thanks

Daniel
Copy your .pst file and open it in Outlook. Do NOT import.

--
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, Daniel asked:

| Hi
|
| I have Office XP, my PC crashed and I had to format and reinstall
| everything, I had a copy of most of the hard drive, is there a way I
| can bring the mail from the copy to the new install?
|
| Where is the mail kept?
|
| thanks
|
| Daniel
 
Daniel said:
Hi

I have Office XP, my PC crashed and I had to format and reinstall
everything, I had a copy of most of the hard drive, is there a way I can
bring the mail from the copy to the new install?

Where is the mail kept?

thanks

Daniel
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Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express,

1) for OE, open OE, check "Tools"->"Options"->"Maintenance" in the
middle, there is "Store Folder". Just copy the dbx files, restart OE.
2) for Outlook, open Outlook, check "File"->"Data File Management", also
copy pst files out. In new Outlook, after first open, close it, delete
the original pst file created, re-open Outlook, it said pst missing,
then you give a new path, restart Outlook, it should be ok.


Regard, Dennis
 
Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express,

1) for OE, open OE, check "Tools"->"Options"->"Maintenance" in the middle,
there is "Store Folder". Just copy the dbx files, restart OE.
2) for Outlook, open Outlook, check "File"->"Data File Management", also
copy pst files out. In new Outlook, after first open, close it, delete the
original pst file created, re-open Outlook, it said pst missing, then you
give a new path, restart Outlook, it should be ok.


Regard, Dennis
Click to expand...

Thanks Dennis, I have Outlook,
will I lose any dasta from the new PST?

thanks

Daniel
 
Daniel said:
Thanks

will that combine the old pst and the new pst data, as I've used the new
install of Outlook for a few days.
Click to expand...

No - it will open a new personal folders file in your older list. If the
file contains a lot of data, then copy the items from the NEW file to the
old, and in Control panel-Mail-Data Files set the OLD file as the default
delivery location. You can then close the NEW file.

HTH
 
Yes, unless you copy that data to the old .pst file.

--
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, Daniel asked:

| || Daniel wrote:
||| Hi
|||
||| I have Office XP, my PC crashed and I had to format and reinstall
||| everything, I had a copy of most of the hard drive, is there a way
||| I can bring the mail from the copy to the new install?
|||
||| Where is the mail kept?
|||
||| thanks
|||
||| Daniel
|| Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express,
||
|| 1) for OE, open OE, check "Tools"->"Options"->"Maintenance" in the
|| middle, there is "Store Folder". Just copy the dbx files, restart OE.
|| 2) for Outlook, open Outlook, check "File"->"Data File Management",
|| also copy pst files out. In new Outlook, after first open, close it,
|| delete the original pst file created, re-open Outlook, it said pst
|| missing, then you give a new path, restart Outlook, it should be ok.
||
||
|| Regard, Dennis
|
| Thanks Dennis, I have Outlook,
| will I lose any dasta from the new PST?
|
| thanks
|
| Daniel
 
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