HELP! Can't get contacts, calendar

[Guest]

I have the following files in a backup and want to copy them to Outlook on my
new hard drive. I do not use Outlook E-Mail at present. I want my schedule,
my contact list, and my tasks. I have as follows:
outcmd - a DAT file
Outlook - an Office Data File
Outlook - an XML Document
Outlook.srs - an SRS file
and outlprnt - type just says "file"

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks, Bob

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

If the Office Data File is actually Outlook.PST you should be fine since the
PST file contains your calendar, contacts, etc. More info here:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[Guest]

Thank you Vince - I think I've not backed up correctly as I see no .pst file.
Major problem, but the article will help for the future. Have a new problem
- Tried to open Outlook with Business Contact Manager and got an error
message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." This causes
contacts to crash when I am trying to repopulate. I have checked to be sure
that everything is up to date. Any thoughts on this one???

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Not sure but did you do a full reinstall of Office since it seems like some
part of BCM isn't installed or registered.

 

[Guest]

I think I did a full reinstall - also did Office updates. What do you think
of uninstalling BCM? Maybe both that and Outlook and then doing a custom
reinstall? My fear is that with the office updates already there it would
cause confusion.
Bob

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You can try uninstalling BCM but I'm not sure if that would help or hurt at
the moment