import messages from outlook express to outlook

[Guest]

I have tried the import and export methods from OE to outlook 2003 on the
same pc eg: export form OE to outlook 2003 and import from OE into 2003 ,but
the problem is that the folders copy over to outlook but there are no emails
in the folder after the transfer has completed.
Plus to top it off when i click on to the "for follow up" folder in outlook
2003 i get a message saying that my outlook.pst file has reached it's maximum
size. But i don't know how to open the outlook.pst file to delete some files?
I think this is why the copy from OE to outlook 2003 didn't work. any
suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Did Outlook already have a .PST file with data in it when you started this
process?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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[Guest]

no i don't think so. however i did install outlook in june and it had
meesages from that import. so in the inbox and other folders the only emails
that were in the new outlook was from june. The emails from yesterday were
not there.

 

[Guest]

The only file that outlook had was a file called "outlook" which is an office
data file and not a .pst file. It has 1.8 gigabytes of data in it , iassume
this is from the previous import.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The only file that outlook had was a file called "outlook" which is
an office data file and not a .pst file. It has 1.8 gigabytes of data
in it , iassume this is from the previous import.

It probably is a PST. You just have Windows's Folder Options set to hide
known file types. If you were to deselect that option, I think you'd see it
is a PST (i.e., it's Outlook.pst).

What I suspect may be happening is that your PST is a ANSI-format PST, the
format used by Outlook 2002 and earlier. The max size of that format PST is
1.8 GB.

 

[Guest]

As Brian said, if your existing .PST file has 1.8GB of data in it already,
there's no way it's going to be able to handle the data coming from Outlook
Express as well. First turn on file extensions in Windows so that you can
confirm your file is called "Outlook.pst". If so, rename it or move it
somewhere else, and then create a new, blank .PST file and set it as your
default -- then try to export from OE again.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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