Move Office XP to Offioce 2007 on Vista

[Guest]

I have purchased a new Vista system and the Office 2007 suite. I copied my
outlook.pst file to an external hard drive. Where do I copy it to on the
Vista system to have Office 2007 recognize it? I have a LOT o femails and
contacts I don't want to lose!

 

[Gordon]

I have purchased a new Vista system and the Office 2007 suite. I copied my
outlook.pst file to an external hard drive. Where do I copy it to on the
Vista system to have Office 2007 recognize it? I have a LOT o femails and
contacts I don't want to lose!

Anywhere you like. Just do NOT overwrite the existing one. Then you have to
tell Outlook where it it. In Outlook, do File-Open-Outlook Data File and
navigate to where you put it. (Make sure that the file you have copied is
not read-Only....)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the prompt response. I tried the open -- it appears to be doing
something and then goes back to the default. How do I check it is not read
only? Other thoughts?

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the prompt response. I tried the open -- it appears to be doing
something and then goes back to the default. How do I check it is not
read
only? Other thoughts?

No error message? Right-click on the file and choose Properties. On The
General tab uncheck Read-Only at the bottom....

 

[Guest]

It's not read only. No error mesg -- just "pauses" and goes to default file.

 

[Gordon]

It's not read only. No error mesg -- just "pauses" and goes to default
file.

'Fraid I'm lost then - not being knowledgeable with either Office 2007 or
Vista....
Sorry!

 

[AJR]

If you are upgrading to Vista and then install Office 2007, the first time
you run Outlook 2007 - Outlook will notify you it has "found" the previous
settings and will ask if you want to import.

 

[Guest]

The Vista system is new. I installed Office 2007, copied over my Outlook.pst
file. First use of Outlook requires setting up email connection which I did.
Tried to re-direct O to my previous .pst file with no love.

Thanks for helping.

 

[Guest]

I was able to retrieve all of my emails. I renamed the existing outlook.pst
folder and copied my backed up file to the same folder, then opened outlook
-- success!! Now, I need to "find" "retrieve" all of my Contacts. The only
ones that "came with" the .pst file were those in Contacts. I had several
other folders (e.g. Family, Work, Clubs, etc) which are missing. What should
I look for in my backup and where should I move them to?

Thanks!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Bad move. Never do this. You will corrupt a profile for sure, and may
corrupt your data. The only supported way to access a PST file is to open it
in Outlook.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem.

I have XP with Outlook 2003 and Vista with Outlook 2007. I have them
running separately on different drives. I have multiple pst files that hold
my important emails which are in 97-2002 format as they were initially
created in my old Outlook 2000 system. Outlook 2003 seems to have no
problems with this and I have continued to use 97-2002 format for the time
being.

However, when I just tried to Open the PST file in 2007 it insisted I didn't
have permissions to open the file. It was not read only and was not already
opened in 2003 ( I always make a point of closing the file when finishing
with Outlook for the day ). When I switched back to XP and checked my emails
in Outlook 2003 the file opened fine.

Reading around I can see Outlook 2007 should be able to read Outlook 97-2002
format PST files so my initial thoughts that I had to upgrade all my PST
files to 2003 format were not valid.

Apart from upgrading the files as above is there any other reason this would
be happening?

Thanks in advance.