The old (or current) PST was badly corrupted and even the main MS support
had probles with this. They created a new PST file and left the VERY large
old one still attached to the personal filders file which has a zillion
e-mails in it. I wanted to delete or dump all the old e-mails in and out (MS
said I could not or should not delete the folders...do this) but retain my 2
address books and transfer them to the new computer and newly installed
OL2007... A clean start other than my old contacts is what I wanted to
achieve. Thinking about it, there was one folder call (Work Mail.) I'd also
like to move to the new computer and OL if that is possible as well.
If you want a clean start but you want just a little of the old data, just
copy the old PST to the new PC (see my prior post abut moving PSTs) and create
a new PST on the new PC (which may have been done already during the install)
for the new Outlook. A new install of Outlook will have all empty folders.
Open the old PST with File>Open>Outlook Data File, open each old folder whose
contents you want to use, select allthe items in it with Ctrl-A and click
Edit>Copy to Folder, specifying the corresponding new folder as the
destination. If the old folder is not one of the default Outlook folders,
then just Ctrl-click the old folder itself and drag it to the root of the new
defatul folder set. When finished with the copying, right-click the old PST
and choose Close.
