Moving Contacts to new Vista computer in Outlook 2007

[Guest]

I have a new Vista Notebook & I copied the Outlook.pst file from my XP
Outlook 2007 machine to the correct directory in the notebook.
All my email is there & the contacts are there but the Individual Folders
under Contacts & associated Address books are not there. Where are those
located & how do I get them into my outlook file?

 

[Guest]

You should not replace the outlook.pst in the "correct directory" or you will
corrupt it. You must use File, Open outlook data file on the outlook menu to
open the old file. Then you can move items to the current pst file or just
use the old one.

 

[Guest]

You are saying that I cannot copy an existing outlook.pst file from another
computer by pasting it in the Outlook Directory of the new computer?
I was not aware of that.
So then I should copy the file from old computer & put it on "Desktop" or
anywhere & then open it from Outlook? It will then replace the existing
"empty outlook.pst from installation of Outlook" when I exit outlook?

Also periodically I travel & want to update my laptop .What is the best way
to sync Outlook file & other files to Laptop? Someone mentioned "Briefcase".
How would I set that up?
Thanks ,I have been wanting to solve that for years.

 

[Gordon]

You are saying that I cannot copy an existing outlook.pst file from
another
computer by pasting it in the Outlook Directory of the new computer?
I was not aware of that.
So then I should copy the file from old computer & put it on "Desktop" or
anywhere & then open it from Outlook? It will then replace the existing
"empty outlook.pst from installation of Outlook" when I exit outlook?

Not quite. You have two choices. You can either open the file in Outlook and
copy all your data to the new file, or, (and I'm talking off the top of my
head here as I know nothing about Vista), you can set the copied file as
your default delivery location for mail. In XP you do that in Control
Panel-Mail-Data files. The second option makes sense if a) the new file has
no data in it and /or the old file has LOTS of data!

HTH

 

[Guest]

The emails & contacts carried over but preferences like signatures, junk
mail, white list etc did not. Are those in the outlook.pst file & carry over
also or do I have to set all those things in every machine seperately?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a new Vista Notebook & I copied the Outlook.pst file from my XP
Outlook 2007 machine to the correct directory in the notebook.

Of coursem that doesn't make Outlook see the PST. You must add it to the
mail profile. There's nothing magic about what folder the PST is in.

All my email is there & the contacts are there but the Individual
Folders under Contacts & associated Address books are not there.
Where are those located & how do I get them into my outlook file?

How did you transfer the PST and how did you add it to Outlook? Describe
the exact steps you took.

 

[Brian Tillman]

You are saying that I cannot copy an existing outlook.pst file from
another computer by pasting it in the Outlook Directory of the new
computer?

Sure you can, provided you do not overwrite an existing PST, but it doesn't
matter what folder you use. There's nothing special about the default
folder and Outlook doesn't automatically detect PSTs you put there. Id
doesn't automatically detect anything.

So then I should copy the file from old computer & put it on
"Desktop" or anywhere & then open it from Outlook? It will then
replace the existing "empty outlook.pst from installation of Outlook"
when I exit outlook?

See this: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm and this:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/movepst.htm

Also periodically I travel & want to update my laptop .What is the
best way to sync Outlook file & other files to Laptop? Someone
mentioned "Briefcase". How would I set that up?

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

The emails & contacts carried over but preferences like signatures,
junk mail, white list etc did not. Are those in the outlook.pst file
& carry over also or do I have to set all those things in every
machine seperately?

The signatures are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures. The Junk E-mail
settings shold be easy enough to reestablish. The Safe Senders, Safe
Recipients, and Blocked Senders lists are, I believe, stored in the
registry. You must export them to files and then transfer those files
(they're text at that point), reimporting them on the other machine.

 

[Guest]

I copied file from old machine & pasted in same directory of new machine
overwriting the outlook.pst file. Opened outlook & data was there but it did
not bring over Contact folders except addresses that were in the "Contacts"
folder itself
not other folder names.

Another post said copy file to desktop of new machine & "File Open" outlook
data file. That works except it does not bring over settings like "White
lists" etc. Does the file not have the settings in it or do I have to set
each machine seperately?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I copied file from old machine & pasted in same directory of new
machine overwriting the outlook.pst file.

Thereby corrupting your mail profile.

Opened outlook & data was
there but it did not bring over Contact folders except addresses that
were in the "Contacts" folder itself
not other folder names.

Start with a new mail profile and make the correct PST the delivery
location.

Another post said copy file to desktop of new machine & "File Open"
outlook data file. That works except it does not bring over settings
like "White lists" etc.

Because they're not in the PST.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The signatures are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures. The Junk E-mail
settings shold be easy enough to reestablish. The Safe Senders, Safe
Recipients, and Blocked Senders lists are, I believe, stored in the
registry. You must export them to files and then transfer those files
(they're text at that point), reimporting them on the other machine.

I'll correct myself here. The Safe and Blocked lists are in the PST as
hidden messages, so correctly migrating the PST should bring them along.

 

[Guest]

In 2003 there's a command to backup/restore settings... I believe it's in
the tools menu. I haven't used 2007 yet, but take a look the command may be
there.

 

[Gordon]

In 2003 there's a command to backup/restore settings... I believe it's in
the tools menu. I haven't used 2007 yet, but take a look the command may
be
there.

unfortunately no. It's been removed in 2007.....