Old PC is on XP with Outlook 2003, now have Laptop with Vista and I am
managing my emails using Outlook 2003 on that now. I really dont know a lot
about computers and transferring outlook files from one to the other is
causing me a nightmare.
Want to back up important outlook files from old PC to a portable hard drive
so I can retire the old thing. But need to be able to read the files I have
put on the portable hard drive from the new Laptop. Would also like to be
able to back up my outlook files on the laptop to the portable hard drive.
Can I do this, If not can I use the portable hard drive to transfer the
outlook files to the new laptop?
Many thanks for looking,
Peter.

You'll need to backup and restore the pst-file.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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"Retep" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:283CAB2E-8139-4CBC-BFCA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Old PC is on XP with Outlook 2003, now have Laptop with Vista and I am
> managing my emails using Outlook 2003 on that now. I really dont know a
> lot
> about computers and transferring outlook files from one to the other is
> causing me a nightmare.
> Want to back up important outlook files from old PC to a portable hard
> drive
> so I can retire the old thing. But need to be able to read the files I
> have
> put on the portable hard drive from the new Laptop. Would also like to be
> able to back up my outlook files on the laptop to the portable hard drive.
> Can I do this, If not can I use the portable hard drive to transfer the
> outlook files to the new laptop?
> Many thanks for looking,
> Peter.
>

"Retep" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Old PC is on XP with Outlook 2003, now have Laptop with Vista and I am
> managing my emails using Outlook 2003 on that now. I really dont know a lot
> about computers and transferring outlook files from one to the other is
> causing me a nightmare.
> Want to back up important outlook files from old PC to a portable hard drive
> so I can retire the old thing. But need to be able to read the files I have
> put on the portable hard drive from the new Laptop. Would also like to be
> able to back up my outlook files on the laptop to the portable hard drive.
> Can I do this, If not can I use the portable hard drive to transfer the
> outlook files to the new laptop?

See this: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

On 19 août, 16:09, "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]"
<tillman1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Retep" <Re...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:283CAB2E-8139-4CBC-BFCA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Old PC is on XP with Outlook 2003, now have Laptop with Vista and I am
> > managing my emails using Outlook 2003 on that now. I really dont know alot
> > about computers and transferring outlook files from one to the other is
> > causing me a nightmare.
> > Want to back up important outlook files from old PC to a portable hard drive
> > so I can retire the old thing. But need to be able to read the files I have
> > put on the portable hard drive from the new Laptop. Would also like to be
> > able to back up my outlook files on the laptop to the portable hard drive.
> > Can I do this, If not can I use the portable hard drive to transfer the
> > outlook files to the new laptop?
>
> See this:http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Hello

I just have a look to the last version of BackupMyFolder! (http://
www.addonmail.com) that have a new feature to backup the PST file on
demand and allow you to select the directory (and the drive) of the
backup.
With this product I am able to backup every day all my PST file to my
USB disk very quick, because, as it is an incremental backup, only new
messages are copied.

Regards
Gilles

"g1mail" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> With this product I am able to backup every day all my PST file to my
> USB disk very quick, because, as it is an incremental backup, only new
> messages are copied.

I'm somewhat dubious of this. Does it use MAPI calls to move subsets of the
Outlook data?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]