Loading Outlook 2000 e-malis, contacts, calendar, etc on a new computer running Octlook 2007

[Brian Tillman]

I used the information provided by DL at
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
In short I copied the OL 2000.pst file to a CD using my 'old'
comuter. I then opened the copied file on OL 2000 to verify it was a
good copy. Everything was there as it had been prior to the file copy
so I took the CD and copied the .pst file onto the Desktop of the
'new' computer running OL 2007 and opened that file with OL 2007.
Everything is there except the Calendar and Contacts.

My wild guess is that you're looking at the old data with the Mail view of
the Navigation Pane. That view won't show any non-mail folders. You must
use the Contacts view to see the contacts folders and the Calendar view to
see the calendar folders. Alternatively, you can use the Folder List view
to see all folders at one time.

I have a secondary issue which should probably be addressed after I
have secured the Calendar and Contacts on OL 2007, but I will mention
it now. I had 2 Personal Folders on OL 2000. All the 'working
folders' (Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Drafts & Deleted Items) were in
one of the Personal Folders along with a three other folders that I
used to store incoming e-mail for 3 e-mail accounts that were
business related. And that was all that was in that folder. The
other Personal Folder was much larger and held all other folders, but
did not contain any 'working folders'. Now the smaller Personal
Folder has a non-functioning set of 'working folders' AND the second,
larger, Personal Folder also contains a set of 'working folders' that
OL 2007 is using. And they are not easily accessed because they are
spread from top the bottom. amongest many folders. I'd really like
OL 2007 to use the 'working folders' in the smaller Personal Folder. Is
that possible?

Set your delivery location to be the PST where you want your default folders
(i.e., the "working" folders) on Tools>Account Settings>Data Files.

 

[Brian Tillman]

PS: OL 2000 Calendar and Contacts folders were in the smaller
Personal Folder along with what I have been calling the 'working
folders' - Inbox, Drafts, etc. Everything else came along but those
peskey Contacts and Calendar files.

You do NOT want to set your delivery location to be the OL 2000 PST (what
you're calling the "working folders"). That PST has a 2GB size limit that
the native OL 2007 PST doesn't have.

 

[DL]

A pst file can be located allmost anywhere on the HD.
Search to include hidden for *.pst

And where might this second .pst file be found. It is not in the
Outlook folder that contains the .pst file I did migrate.

Outlook 2000 never used a PAB file. It only retained backwards
compatibility with them. The hint here is that the OP was using 2 PST
files and appears only to have migrated one of them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

In short I copied the OL 2000.pst file to a CD using my 'old' comuter.
I then opened the copied file on OL 2000 to verify it was a good copy.

Were you using a PAB (Personal Address Book) in outlook 2000? If so, and
I think that O2000 used a PAB by default in one of its modes. then that
is NOT contained in the pst file. It's a separate file AFAIK.

 

[Sue Montague]

I sincerely appreciate everyone's advice and attention to my issues!
Everything I need has been transferred to OL2007!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!