Personal Folders

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I purchased a new computer with Outlook 2003 installed.
I had previously used Outlook 98. I used a file moving
program to move the files from the old computer to the
new. Outlook 2003 has my old contacts and calendar and
the old emails, however they are not the default
folders. Is there a way to make the older files become
the default so that when you click on contacts or
calendar the older version comes-up?
 
Yes. First, open the .PST file you want to use in Outlook -- you can do
this by clicking File | Open | Outlook Data File. Once it's open in the
Folder List, you can go into Tools | E-mail Accounts, select View or change
existing e-mail accounts, click Next, and in the "Deliver new e-mail to the
following location" box, select the name of the set of personal folders you
want to use as the default. Click Finish to complete this operation.

That said, you may want to consider moving your data from your old .PST to
the new one created in Outlook 2003 -- this is because Outlook 2003
introduces a new Unicode format for .PST files, which can hold a lot more
data than the old format. However, there is a caveat -- the new .PST format
is not compatible with older Outlook versions; you'd have to export your
data back to the old format to use it in an older version of Outlook.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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Thanks for the instructions. My email goes to the default
inbox, which is OK. It's the contacts and calendar that
are the problem. I'd like the old contacts, which have
all my addresses, to be the default so that when I click
on contacts that folder opens insted of the default
folder that has nothing in it. The same is for the
calander. I hope that makes sense. And, thanks again.
 
In that case you will just need to move the data from the old folders to the
new ones. While you have both .PST files open in the Folder List, first
click on the old Calendar folder, switch to the By Category view (which is
unfiltered by default), select all items (CTRL+A), and drag the group of
items to the new Calendar folder. Then do the same with Contacts.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


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