Loss of Contacts after leaving a domain and joining a workgroup

[Guest]

I am in a situation that I had to take a pc off a domain and make this stand
alone thus joining a small simple workgroup. Domain called Portelli and
workgroup called Portelli. Outlook was installed on the pc as a local stand
alone appz all data in the local machine, under john.portelli.PORTELLI
profile in Documents and Settings.

After taking the pc off the domain, I joined the local workgroup 'PORTELLI'
and now the new profile is called: john.portelli.JOHN (local pc name).

I then transfered the outlook.pst from john.portelli.PORTELLI to the new
workgroup profile and all emails do show however no contacts nor calendar are
in the new profile??? there is no other address book (I Checked) No idea what
happened??? has this happened before??? Any ideas???

Software Specs: Windows XP Pro, Outlook 2003.

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I then transfered the outlook.pst from john.portelli.PORTELLI to the
new workgroup profile and all emails do show however no contacts nor
calendar are in the new profile??? there is no other address book (I
Checked) No idea what happened??? has this happened before??? Any
ideas???

Are you saying that if you open the Contacts folder it is empty? Describe
exactly how you "transferred" the files.

 

[Guest]

I copied the outlook.pst file under the old profile to the new profile. When
I opened outlook after this the emails were there (inbox etc) but no contacts
or calendar events....

Thanks

Ron

 

[Brian Tillman]

I copied the outlook.pst file under the old profile to the new
profile. When I opened outlook after this the emails were there
(inbox etc) but no contacts or calendar events....

Did you create a new mail profile in Control Panel and point it at the PST?
Was Outlook open or closed when last you shot down before the change?

 

[Guest]

Did you create a new mail profile in Control Panel and point it at the PST?
Was Outlook open or closed when last you shot down before the change?

Ron

 

[Brian Tillman]

No I didn't, I copied the outlook.pst from the old profile and
pasted it in the new profile no setting up through control panel...
and outlook was definately closed before the pc was shut down.

The Windows user profile and the Outlook Mail profile are separate. copying
a PST from one Windows user profile to another does not affect the mail
profile (which is a registry key) unless you overwrite a PST already being
used by a mail profile, in which case you could corrupt the mail profile.

Create a new mail profile in Control Panel's Mail applet and point it at the
PST you wish to use. Let us know if that changes things.