Moving Contacts to new PC

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About 10 mo. ago, I was using W98 with Outlook 2000 and
used import/export on the file menu to save my Contacts in
a .pst format, save it to floppy, then succesfully restore
it on a different PC running Wme and Outlook 2000. Was
never able to recreate that transfer consistently, and
since the folders were on the new PC, I never pursued it
(backing up to a DIFFERENT PC... it doesn't make sense to
me to rely on Outlook backing itself up to the same HD
whose possible failure you're trying to protect against!),
although I did download and install the backup utility and
I read the "Using MS Outlook Pers. Folders Backup Tool"
article from Office Online.
Now I need to transfer Contacts and other folders to a new
PC that is also running Wme and Outlook 2000. This time am
using CD burner. I have tried every which way I could
think of to backup, burn to CD and restore files to new
PC, but am having no luck. The files are in .pst format
on CD but when I try to restore from them on new PC, any
of several messages appears, depending on whether I try to
use the Outlook backup utility or "import from ...." on
file menu.
1. "Properties for this info svc. have not been defined.."
2. "File could not be opened. May be incompatible with
this version of Windows or may be corrupted" (I read
something about Unicode format....)
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Mark
 
How did you create this PST file?
Did you move it to a hard drive and remove its read only attribute?
After you do that, do not try to import it. Just open it.
 
Russ,
I used export wizard in file menu to select contacts to
save with no encryption to the floppy drive, then I took
that floppy to the new PC and imported it to the new
freshly loaded Outlook. I did not alter any of its
properties. But I can't recreate that now. I now have two
separate PC's, each running Wme, Outlook 2000, and the MS
Outlook 2003 backup utility (supposed to work with Outlook
2000 and later). I want to transfer my contact folder from
one PC to the other and can't. Outlook 2000 on the new PC
is a fresh install with no previous folders.
Thanks in advance
Mark

-----Original Message-----
How did you create this PST file?
Did you move it to a hard drive and remove its read only attribute?
After you do that, do not try to import it. Just open it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
About 10 mo. ago, I was using W98 with Outlook 2000 and
used import/export on the file menu to save my Contacts in
a .pst format, save it to floppy, then succesfully restore
it on a different PC running Wme and Outlook 2000. Was
never able to recreate that transfer consistently, and
since the folders were on the new PC, I never pursued it
(backing up to a DIFFERENT PC... it doesn't make sense to
me to rely on Outlook backing itself up to the same HD
whose possible failure you're trying to protect against!),
although I did download and install the backup utility and
I read the "Using MS Outlook Pers. Folders Backup Tool"
article from Office Online.
Now I need to transfer Contacts and other folders to a new
PC that is also running Wme and Outlook 2000. This time am
using CD burner. I have tried every which way I could
think of to backup, burn to CD and restore files to new
PC, but am having no luck. The files are in .pst format
on CD but when I try to restore from them on new PC, any
of several messages appears, depending on whether I try to
use the Outlook backup utility or "import from ...." on
file menu.
1. "Properties for this info svc. have not been defined.."
2. "File could not be opened. May be incompatible with
this version of Windows or may be corrupted" (I read
something about Unicode format....)
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Mark
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Do not export or use the backup utility.
Simply create a new PST file in Outlook. Copy the information you want into
it.
Copy that PST to the other computer and open it in Outlook.
If you are tying to move information from Outlook 2003 to an earlier
version, you must be certain to create a PST file in "Outlook 97-2002"
format.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Mark said:
Russ,
I used export wizard in file menu to select contacts to
save with no encryption to the floppy drive, then I took
that floppy to the new PC and imported it to the new
freshly loaded Outlook. I did not alter any of its
properties. But I can't recreate that now. I now have two
separate PC's, each running Wme, Outlook 2000, and the MS
Outlook 2003 backup utility (supposed to work with Outlook
2000 and later). I want to transfer my contact folder from
one PC to the other and can't. Outlook 2000 on the new PC
is a fresh install with no previous folders.
Thanks in advance
Mark

-----Original Message-----
How did you create this PST file?
Did you move it to a hard drive and remove its read only attribute?
After you do that, do not try to import it. Just open it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
About 10 mo. ago, I was using W98 with Outlook 2000 and
used import/export on the file menu to save my Contacts in
a .pst format, save it to floppy, then succesfully restore
it on a different PC running Wme and Outlook 2000. Was
never able to recreate that transfer consistently, and
since the folders were on the new PC, I never pursued it
(backing up to a DIFFERENT PC... it doesn't make sense to
me to rely on Outlook backing itself up to the same HD
whose possible failure you're trying to protect against!),
although I did download and install the backup utility and
I read the "Using MS Outlook Pers. Folders Backup Tool"
article from Office Online.
Now I need to transfer Contacts and other folders to a new
PC that is also running Wme and Outlook 2000. This time am
using CD burner. I have tried every which way I could
think of to backup, burn to CD and restore files to new
PC, but am having no luck. The files are in .pst format
on CD but when I try to restore from them on new PC, any
of several messages appears, depending on whether I try to
use the Outlook backup utility or "import from ...." on
file menu.
1. "Properties for this info svc. have not been defined.."
2. "File could not be opened. May be incompatible with
this version of Windows or may be corrupted" (I read
something about Unicode format....)
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Mark
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