import contacts from another computer failing

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I'm running Outlook 2003 on both machines. Trying to copy the contacts from
one machine to the other by saving the pst with only the contacts (tried
with/without compression and all the other options). Then going to the new
machine and opening up the pst file. It keeps saying "file name.pst is not
a personal folders file."


any ideas? This used to work for me, but not any more. Any other ideas?
I'd also like to add all the other computer's contacts into the new
computer's outlook file. Can't seem to do that either.

thank you
 
Mix Head said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 on both machines. Trying to copy the contacts
from one machine to the other by saving the pst with only the contacts
(tried with/without compression and all the other options). Then going to
the new machine and opening up the pst file. It keeps saying "file
name.pst is not a personal folders file."


any ideas? This used to work for me, but not any more. Any other ideas?
I'd also like to add all the other computer's contacts into the new
computer's outlook file. Can't seem to do that either.

thank you
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Are you using several Outlook versions in this scenario? Please note that
OL2003 uses a new format for new *.pst files, and they are not compatible
with older versions of Outlook.

You could also test do it visa versa, to test if it works in this way, just
for testing. OL2003 should deal with older *.pst versions without problems.

Regards,
Robert
 
How did you transport the PST file?
If you copied it to a storage medium, move it to your hard drive and remove
the read only attribute it acquired.
 
Mix Head said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 on both machines. Trying to copy the
contacts from one machine to the other by saving the pst with only
the contacts (tried with/without compression and all the other
options). Then going to the new machine and opening up the pst file.
It keeps saying "file name.pst is not a personal folders file."
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This is indicative of the file having been corrupted in the copy process.
One thing that can do this is typing to copy the PST while Outlook is still
open. I've also seen a couple of reports that seem to indicate that some CD
burning software doesnt' handle PSTs well.
 
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