Import of .pst files from one Outlook to another Outlook

[Morten]

I'm working in Outlook 2002 and my computer has been
reinstalled (formated etc.).
Now I want to import the old files from Outlook into the
exact same Outlook (just reinstalled on a new partition).
I can't do this.
It's possible to import from Outlook Express and other
programs but not form another Outlook!
I have the files backed up from earlier.
Personal Folders(1).pst
Outlook.pst
extend.dat
archive.pst

I can't believe it's not possible to import these files...

Please help me.

Morten

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Why are you trying to import a native Outlook file type? (BTW - you can
only use .pst files, not the rest).

Use File->Open to OPEN the .pst file after you have copied it back to the
hard drive and removed the read-only attribute.

Importing is for translating a non-Outlook file to a format that Outlook can
use.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Morten asked:

| I'm working in Outlook 2002 and my computer has been
| reinstalled (formated etc.).
| Now I want to import the old files from Outlook into the
| exact same Outlook (just reinstalled on a new partition).
| I can't do this.
| It's possible to import from Outlook Express and other
| programs but not form another Outlook!
| I have the files backed up from earlier.
| Personal Folders(1).pst
| Outlook.pst
| extend.dat
| archive.pst
|
| I can't believe it's not possible to import these files...
|
| Please help me.
|
| Morten

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Hi Morton,
maybe this could be a help,

http://home.arcor.de/andreas.roeder-privat/English Help.htm#18

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If the original poster follows your directions, he/she will lose:

1. Custom forms (kept when opening a .pst file)
2. Connections between contacts and activities (kept when opening a .pst
file)
3. Received dates on mail (kept when opening a .pst file)
4. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar (kept when opening a .pst file)
5. Journal connections (kept when opening a .pst file)
6. etc.

Do not advise people to import a native file into Outlook - opening the file
works just fine and avoids the previously listed problems.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Andreas Roeder
asked:

| Hi Morton,
| maybe this could be a help,
|
| http://home.arcor.de/andreas.roeder-privat/English Help.htm#18
|
|| I'm working in Outlook 2002 and my computer has been
|| reinstalled (formated etc.).
|| Now I want to import the old files from Outlook into the
|| exact same Outlook (just reinstalled on a new partition).
|| I can't do this.
|| It's possible to import from Outlook Express and other
|| programs but not form another Outlook!
|| I have the files backed up from earlier.
|| Personal Folders(1).pst
|| Outlook.pst
|| extend.dat
|| archive.pst
||
|| I can't believe it's not possible to import these files...
||
|| Please help me.
||
|| Morten

 

[ttturner]

file>import>import from another program or file>personal
folder file (pst) should do it

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Hi Milly,
okay you are right, you have to note the following files too,
*.pab (personal addressbook)
*.fav [Shortcuts on Outlookboard)
*.wab (Windows addressbook)
*.rtf (Rich-Text Signatures) (but not all rtf files are signatures);
*.htm (HTML Signatures); *.txt (Text Signatures)
*.rwz (Ruleassisten (our constructed rules)
Outlprnt Printproperties
outcmd.dat Symbolboards und Menueboard
Categories
HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Categories!^
Profiles HKEY_Current_Uswer\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

..pab and .wab are obsolete with the newer versions of Outlook (2002 and
2003) - just FYI.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Andreas Roeder
asked:

| Hi Milly,
| okay you are right, you have to note the following files too,
| *.pab (personal addressbook)
| *.fav [Shortcuts on Outlookboard)
| *.wab (Windows addressbook)
| *.rtf (Rich-Text Signatures) (but not all rtf files are signatures);
| *.htm (HTML Signatures); *.txt (Text Signatures)
| *.rwz (Ruleassisten (our constructed rules)
| Outlprnt Printproperties
| outcmd.dat Symbolboards und Menueboard
| Categories
| HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Categories!^
| Profiles HKEY_Current_Uswer\Software\Microsoft\Windows
| NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles
|
|| If the original poster follows your directions, he/she will lose:
||
|| 1. Custom forms (kept when opening a .pst file)
|| 2. Connections between contacts and activities (kept when opening a
|| .pst file)
|| 3. Received dates on mail (kept when opening a .pst file)
|| 4. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar (kept when opening a
|| .pst file)
|| 5. Journal connections (kept when opening a .pst file)
|| 6. etc.
||
|| Do not advise people to import a native file into Outlook - opening
|| the file works just fine and avoids the previously listed problems.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Andreas
|| Roeder asked:
||
||| Hi Morton,
||| maybe this could be a help,
|||
||| http://home.arcor.de/andreas.roeder-privat/English Help.htm#18
|||
|||| I'm working in Outlook 2002 and my computer has been
|||| reinstalled (formated etc.).
|||| Now I want to import the old files from Outlook into the
|||| exact same Outlook (just reinstalled on a new partition).
|||| I can't do this.
|||| It's possible to import from Outlook Express and other
|||| programs but not form another Outlook!
|||| I have the files backed up from earlier.
|||| Personal Folders(1).pst
|||| Outlook.pst
|||| extend.dat
|||| archive.pst
||||
|||| I can't believe it's not possible to import these files...
||||
|||| Please help me.
||||
|||| Morten