Thanks for the info, but the import was successful. No data lost (email,
calendar, contacts) as far as I can determine, and my mail profile is
correct.
Distribution lists and the links between contacts and calendar entries are two
examples of data that rarely, if ever, survive an export ot import. You did
lose data. It may be data you don't need, but that doesn't mean it wasn;t
lost.
If importing is a bad idea, why is it an option on the Import and Export
Wizard?
Importing and exporting is intended to move data between disparate
applications. You don't import doc files into Word or xls files into Excel.
you also don't import PSTs into Outlook.
Wish I had gotten an answer to my original question as quickly.........
You were answered (with a question asking for additional information and
suggesting something to try) 15 minutes after posting you posted originally
and then you didn't respond to that for six more days. Granted, after that,
you didn't get a response for another eight days, and then you were the
respondent, but if you didn't show any interest in clarifying or stating the
outcome of the first suggestion you were given, it's possible others didn't
have that interest, either.
The other reasons people might not answer are multifold. First, this is a
peer-to-peer newsgroup. People answer when the can and if they have a
suggestion or need clarification. Second, it's fairly easy to search the
newsgroup (using Google Groups) for prior postings of the same or a similar
issue and you could use the intervening time to do that. Other reasons exist
as well.
We still don't know if you tried a new mail profile. Uninstalling and
reinstalling doesn't do that.