Issue with importing PST

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Elisa

The administrative assistant for the President of my
company would like import her contacts to his. I have
exported her contacts as PST and emailed it to him. I
placed the PST under C:Documents &
Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook. I
then tried to import the Pst to the Presidents contacts.
It's not working. Also, if I try to delete and start
again, I get sharing violation.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Any input would be greatly appriciated.

Elisa
 
Elisa wrote:
|| The administrative assistant for the President of my
|| company would like import her contacts to his. I have
|| exported her contacts as PST and emailed it to him. I
|| placed the PST under C:Documents &
|| Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook. I
|| then tried to import the Pst to the Presidents contacts.
|| It's not working. Also, if I try to delete and start
|| again, I get sharing violation.
||
|| Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
||
|| Any input would be greatly appriciated.
||
|| Elisa

Don't import. Go to File-Open-Outlook Data File. Then copy the contents of
the Contacts folder into the folder on the current pst file. BTW, are you
not using Exchange Server with a Global Address Book?
 
Elisa said:
The administrative assistant for the President of my
company would like import her contacts to his. I have
exported her contacts as PST and emailed it to him. I
placed the PST under C:Documents &
Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook. I
then tried to import the Pst to the Presidents contacts.
It's not working. Also, if I try to delete and start
again, I get sharing violation.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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The first thing you're doing wrong is to think export and import is what you
need. Create a new PST (File>New>Outlook Data File). Browse to the Windows
folder where you want it (or accept the default), name it (or accept the
default), anc click OK. Now right-click on the Contacts folder, choose Copy
and select the new PST as the destination. When the copy completes,
right-click the new PST and choose Close. Close and restart Outlook. Now
mail that PST. On the receiving end, save it to disk. In Outlook click
File>Open>Outlook Data File, browse to where you saved the PST, select it,
and click OK. You can now either use that PST just where it is or you can
merge the PST's Contacts folder into the main COntacts folder. Open that
PST's Contacts folder, chenge the View to "By Category", select all the
entries with CTRL-A and drag them to the main COntacts folder or right-click
and choose Copy or Move and select the main Contacts folder as the
destination.
 
Thanks Brian for the detailed explanation on the .pst thing.

Why is the import/export even in the program if it does not *import or
export*?

The confusion/madness compares to Front Page's thing with resizing pictures
..... it has the ability but DON'T do it in Front Page, use a photo editor

Pat <confused> Thronson
XP-Pro SP-2 Office 2003 w/ Frontpage
 
Pat Thronson said:
Why is the import/export even in the program if it does not *import or
export*?
Click to expand...

There are times when import/export may be appropriate. Mostly, though,
import and export should be for files that are NOT native to Outlook.
 
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