Vista- Outlook signatures didn't copy

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I copied and pasted my Outlook pst folder to my new laptop with Vista.
Everything copied except for my signatures....any suggestions?
to do this i went to c:/user/local settings/ application data/ miscrosoft/
outlook/ copied outlook pst.
 
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FYI: using outlook 2007

I manually copied and pasted my Outlook pst folder to my new laptop with
Vista.
Everything copied except for my signatures....any suggestions?

To do this, I went to c:/user/local settings/ application data/ miscrosoft/
outlook/ copied outlook pst. and pasted in similar fashion to new vista
laptop.
 
ritzput said:
:
FYI: using outlook 2007

I manually copied and pasted my Outlook pst folder to my new laptop
with Vista.
Everything copied except for my signatures....any suggestions?

To do this, I went to c:/user/local settings/ application data/
miscrosoft/ outlook/ copied outlook pst. and pasted in similar
fashion to new vista laptop.
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Signatures are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures, not in the PST.
 
are you sure you know what i mean....i saw in a similar question your
response was it wasn't possible to transfer outlokk files to vista without an
ouside program???

I am using XP on computer transfering FROM not to: If i'm understanding
your BRIEF response to mean the path i should go is:
Docs & settings/ user name/ local settings/ appl.data/ miscrosoft/......then
you said to click on SIGNATURES......that DOESN'T EXIST......
I only have :
CD Burning, Credentials, Desktop Search, Feeds, Forms, Help Ctr, Media
player, Money, Office, One Note, Outlook, Port Devices, WIndows, Windows
Media, Works........
should i be clicking on any of these to get to "SIGNATURES"?
 
i do see an archive pst if i go into:
local settings/ appl data/ miscrosoft/ outlook/ archives pst

why wouldn't i expect the sinatures in outlook to be in outlook????
 
ritzput said:
are you sure you know what i mean....i saw in a similar question your
response was it wasn't possible to transfer outlokk files to vista
without an ouside program???

I am using XP on computer transfering FROM not to: If i'm
understanding your BRIEF response to mean the path i should go is:
Docs & settings/ user name/ local settings/ appl.data/
miscrosoft/......then you said to click on SIGNATURES......that
DOESN'T EXIST......
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The problem with what you typed is that's not where I said to look.
%AppData% is C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data, NOT \Local
Settings\Application Data. Just enter the path I types into the Address bar
of Windows Explorer.
 
ritzput said:
i do see an archive pst if i go into:
local settings/ appl data/ miscrosoft/ outlook/ archives pst

why wouldn't i expect the sinatures in outlook to be in outlook????
Click to expand...

Because Outlook simply doesn't keep them in the PST, that's why.
 
OMG...now i get it......thanks!

FYI, may i suggest you be slightly more specific in your responses....had
you typed that path to begin with there wouldn't have been this
misunderstanding. All you had typed originally was:
Signatures are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures, not in the PST....

I thought you were picking up where i left off.....
c:/user/ local settings/ app data/ microsoft/ signatures

Hope can you appreciate that.....

thanks for responding again.....
 
ritzput said:
OMG...now i get it......thanks!

FYI, may i suggest you be slightly more specific in your
responses....had you typed that path to begin with there wouldn't
have been this misunderstanding. All you had typed originally was:
Signatures are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures, not in the PST....
Click to expand...

%AppData% is as specific as you can get. It is an environment variable
whose value is "C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data". If you
had used the environment variable in Windows Explorer you would have gotten
to exactly where you should have been.
I thought you were picking up where i left off.....
c:/user/ local settings/ app data/ microsoft/ signatures

Hope can you appreciate that.....
Click to expand...

Nope. Familiarize yourself with the various envornment variables Windows
defines. Open a command prompt window and type "set", then press Enter to
see them.
 
Hey Brian:
you had answered this for me before when i had HP laptop but i am now using
Toshiba laptop\ Vista/ Outlook 2007:

when i click on c:\documents and settings
It has arrow and won't give me access and then i get into a mess with
authorizing security........

Any suggeestions?
 
ritzput said:
when i click on c:\documents and settings
It has arrow and won't give me access and then i get into a mess with
authorizing security........
Click to expand...

Use %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures as the path. It will apply both to
Windows XP and Vista.
 
I am having the same problem. Using Outlook 2003 under Vista and using Word
as email editor.

Copied the signature file from old computer and pasted it in the new
location path ( %AppData% etc ) you provided below ) in Vista on new
computer. But the file pasted, so I guess I need to open it, and copy and
paste each individual signature.

But even the signature that I created in Vista does not show up when I
create a new email message. I only have one email account.

In XP the default signature thatn you chose would show up on each new email
message and you could right click it to change signatures.
 
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