Arcive and Import

[Knows just enough to be dangerous]

I have bought a new PC and loaded my Office 2003 software onto it. I then
archived my Microsoft Outlook e-mail on my old PC, which has around 5 years
of mail and atttachments in a file structure. I'm pretty sure I selected 'do
not import duplicates' but when I went to copy the archive pst file, I found
it was 9GB !!!. So I thought I would reverse the archive, then archive in
manageable bites and transfer to the new PC. I think it then created more
dupe's when importing, up to 20 times on some e-mails, tasks and diary
entries (it has been pretty 'buggy' for some time, including ignoring junk
mail and spam preferences). Is ther any program that can identify duplicates
and remove them? If not it will take me months to maually identify and erase
dupe's.

 

[DL]

There was no need to archive the old data files, nor does it serve any
useful purpose
If the old pc is still available, with outlook closed, copy the pst file(s)
to your new pc and locate them in your Documents folder
Using the Mail Applet in the Control Panel, of the new PC, configure a New
Profile - dont copy - add the data file by browsing to the main data file
you copied to Documents, add the accounts & test

If you had browsed this group prior to starting you would see the process of
transfering data is answered daily, and that niether Import or Export is
reccomended
Importing loses data and settings and often corrupts the Profile

"Knows just enough to be dangerous"