new win7 ultimate. cannot run outlook.

[charles kuchar]

running outlook 2007. old computer had outlook 2003. easy transfer should
have transfered outlook connector. first message is no email program
associated. then a long message about the connector i think. then outlook
closed. started outlook again and it asked if i wanted safe mode, i said
yes and it hung again. then on the next attempt win7 said it would detect
and repair. now finally i am able to get outlook going. however, so far it
has downloaded 1101 old messages from sept 12 and older. this i don't
understand. i looked at some of the files i had put family message into and
there were messages up to 10/13/09. that will be a lot of messages to go
through and sort... charlie

 

[charles kuchar]

finally the messages stopped arriving... and ll/05/09 messages are there so
at least i am current. i will try to figure out what happened. the
messages that were in the inbox now were saved in a pst file on another hard
drive other than the one outlook was on. at least i am retired now so have
lots of time to sort out the messages... charlie

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

1. easy transfer does not work well on outlook profiles. It's better to make
a new profile and associate the old pst with it.
2. you should reinstall the connector. it only takes a few min and
eliminates problems.
3. the file outlook uses to identify which messages were downloaded is
associated with the profile and a GUID. The GUID is machine specific. Moving
the pst to a new machine will redownload all messages stored on the server.
If the account is imap or connector, trying to use the old pst is pointless,
outlook will make a new pst.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
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[charles kuchar]

thank you for the reply. i remember your help when i was working at a small
school in KC. now that i'm retired i hope i help more here than needing
help. kinda exciting to move from my 607mhz PIII to the latest version of
win7 and 3g processor... kinda fast and it doesn't take long to correct
things. charlie

1. easy transfer does not work well on outlook profiles. It's better to
make a new profile and associate the old pst with it.
2. you should reinstall the connector. it only takes a few min and
eliminates problems.
3. the file outlook uses to identify which messages were downloaded is
associated with the profile and a GUID. The GUID is machine specific.
Moving the pst to a new machine will redownload all messages stored on the
server. If the account is imap or connector, trying to use the old pst is
pointless, outlook will make a new pst.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

running outlook 2007. old computer had outlook 2003. easy transfer
should have transfered outlook connector. first message is no email
program associated. then a long message about the connector i think.
then outlook closed. started outlook again and it asked if i wanted safe
mode, i said yes and it hung again. then on the next attempt win7 said
it would detect and repair. now finally i am able to get outlook going.
however, so far it has downloaded 1101 old messages from sept 12 and
older. this i don't understand. i looked at some of the files i had put
family message into and there were messages up to 10/13/09. that will
be a lot of messages to go through and sort... charlie

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Win7 is sweet... and its amazing how far we've come in a few years.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

thank you for the reply. i remember your help when i was working at a
small school in KC. now that i'm retired i hope i help more here than
needing help. kinda exciting to move from my 607mhz PIII to the latest
version of win7 and 3g processor... kinda fast and it doesn't take long
to correct things. charlie

1. easy transfer does not work well on outlook profiles. It's better to
make a new profile and associate the old pst with it.
2. you should reinstall the connector. it only takes a few min and
eliminates problems.
3. the file outlook uses to identify which messages were downloaded is
associated with the profile and a GUID. The GUID is machine specific.
Moving the pst to a new machine will redownload all messages stored on
the server. If the account is imap or connector, trying to use the old
pst is pointless, outlook will make a new pst.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

running outlook 2007. old computer had outlook 2003. easy transfer
should have transfered outlook connector. first message is no email
program associated. then a long message about the connector i think.
then outlook closed. started outlook again and it asked if i wanted
safe mode, i said yes and it hung again. then on the next attempt win7
said it would detect and repair. now finally i am able to get outlook
going. however, so far it has downloaded 1101 old messages from sept 12
and older. this i don't understand. i looked at some of the files i
had put family message into and there were messages up to 10/13/09.
that will be a lot of messages to go through and sort... charlie