Importing Files Into MS Outlook

[Guest]

Recently I saved my Notes in MS Outlook and e-mailed them to my other
address. I thought that they were saved as a .txt file; however, when I
received the e-mail they are all .dat files and I cannot open them using
Outlook (I receive the error message "This attachment is a MAPI 1.0 embedded
message and is not supported by this mail system.").

Can anyone help me to open these files in Outlook again?

Thanks!

Mike

 

[Guest]

What process did you use to save the notes in the first place? What version
of Outlook?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

Hi Joyce,

Thanks for the quick response...it was MS Outlook 2002. I used Edit/Select
All/File/Save As...the default extension was a .txt, so I named it Notes.txt.
I then attached the file to an e-mail and sent it. I expected that when I
opened Outlook 2002 on another computer, I could simply import the file into
the Notes directory in Outlook. However, the e-mail shows instead of one
..txt file several Winmail.dat files instead (apparently, one for each note).
When you try to import the files, that's when the problem begins.

Can you help? I need these notes desperately!!

Thanks much,
Mike M.

 

[Guest]

I don't suppose you have access to the original notes or you probably
wouldn't be here...the way to back up your Outlook data is generally just to
back up your entire .PST file (see
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm).

If you open that .txt file in Notepad, you should see a list of your notes
in just a plain text format. You will probably have to copy each one to a
new Outlook note. It will probably be tedious if you have a lot of notes,
but at least you haven't lost all the data.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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