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i bought a new pc that has ist and outlook 2007 i am not able transfer my
contacts from the ol pc with xp and outlook 2003 HELP!
contacts from the ol pc with xp and outlook 2003 HELP!
lwiznitzer said:i bought a new pc that has ist and outlook 2007 i am not able transfer my
contacts from the ol pc with xp and outlook 2003 HELP!
Gordon said:How do you mean "I'm not able to transfer...."? How have you tried to do it?
I saved the contacts to a dvd disk as a pst file in outlook 2003 and then copied it to my hardrive on the new pc with vista /outlook 2007. I the opened outlook 2007 and clicked file tab, clicked import, cliced browse, found the file, clicked it and it said acces denied.
Gordon said:Good! You should never import native Outlook data. Why?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])
Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a
ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists
Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not
advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.
As to your problem, first make sure that the file has any read-Only
attribute removed, then in Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File and
navigate to where you copied it to. If you still get "Access denied" then
I would presume it's a Vista permissions problem, which unfortunately I
know nothing about!