reminders missing after restoring a pst

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Adam Raff

Good Morning,

I have a simple problem that has been bugging me for years. Everytime I
wipe my system, I backup my PST file. After I restore my contacts I look
and see if all my birthdays or anniversary's are in place and they are. But
when it's time to remind me about them nothing happens.

I have to delete the days (in the spot where you put the dates) and then
recreate them and sometimes when I do that I get doubles. I have tried
using the same PST file and I have tried just importing the contacts with
the same results. I can't even find the location of the reminder in my
contact page. I think that perhaps I need to check something off on the
reminder but I can't find the date or reminder to look for anything.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2003 SP1

Any help would be appreciated

Adam Raff
 
How do you "restore" your PST file?
Importing is never the correct way. Reminders are among a host of data you
lose that way.
You should configure Outlook to use your old PST file.
 
Hi Russ

I have done that do. What I have done in the past was just open Outlook and
point it to my PST file but the same thing happened. So this time around I
copied the contents into the new PST file such as my Contacts.

Can I delete the dates and then recreate them again with out any issues?

Thanks
Adam


Russ Valentine said:
How do you "restore" your PST file?
Importing is never the correct way. Reminders are among a host of data you
lose that way.
You should configure Outlook to use your old PST file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Adam Raff said:
Good Morning,

I have a simple problem that has been bugging me for years. Everytime I
wipe my system, I backup my PST file. After I restore my contacts I look
and see if all my birthdays or anniversary's are in place and they are.
But when it's time to remind me about them nothing happens.

I have to delete the days (in the spot where you put the dates) and then
recreate them and sometimes when I do that I get doubles. I have tried
using the same PST file and I have tried just importing the contacts with
the same results. I can't even find the location of the reminder in my
contact page. I think that perhaps I need to check something off on the
reminder but I can't find the date or reminder to look for anything.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2003 SP1

Any help would be appreciated

Adam Raff
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Yes.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Adam Raff said:
Hi Russ

I have done that do. What I have done in the past was just open Outlook
and point it to my PST file but the same thing happened. So this time
around I copied the contents into the new PST file such as my Contacts.

Can I delete the dates and then recreate them again with out any issues?

Thanks
Adam


Russ Valentine said:
How do you "restore" your PST file?
Importing is never the correct way. Reminders are among a host of data
you lose that way.
You should configure Outlook to use your old PST file.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Adam Raff said:
Good Morning,

I have a simple problem that has been bugging me for years. Everytime I
wipe my system, I backup my PST file. After I restore my contacts I
look and see if all my birthdays or anniversary's are in place and they
are. But when it's time to remind me about them nothing happens.

I have to delete the days (in the spot where you put the dates) and then
recreate them and sometimes when I do that I get doubles. I have tried
using the same PST file and I have tried just importing the contacts
with the same results. I can't even find the location of the reminder
in my contact page. I think that perhaps I need to check something off
on the reminder but I can't find the date or reminder to look for
anything.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2003 SP1

Any help would be appreciated

Adam Raff
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