Cheers for taking the time to help Russ. I'll go through what I did...
In Outlook 2007 on my old PC I clicked File - Import/Export - export to
file
- PST file and saved the file to my secondary hard drive and called it
backup.pst where the file was a fair size (100MB or so)
On my new PC, having opened Outlook 2007, I wrongly imported this file and
even though another 'Personal Folder' appeared below the one that was
already
there in the left hand column, there was no Inbox folder or Calendar.
When I
checked my secondary hard drive, the size of the backup.pst file had gone
down to 265kb.
So as it stands I have none of my backed up messages or calendar and the
size of the file I backed up has shrunk considerably.
Russ Valentine said:
We have no idea. Since we weren't watching you so we have no idea what
you
did wrong, nor did you list the precise steps used to create your back
up,
transfer it, and import it. Importing should have no effect on your
original
data file. Done correctly, importing would not lose data like that, it
would
only alter it or send it to the wrong location. Didn't you keep a back up
of
your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Martyn said:
Well that would certainly explain things. My only problem now is that
my
original backup pst file has shrunk after I imported it and when I
opened
it
just now I still had no messages or calendar that I saved. Where has
all
that data gone?
:
You never import PST files. You open them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I'm having problems viewing an imported pst file that I've moved
onto
my
new
computer. I backed my file up to a pst file on my old PC but after
having
imported it onto my new one, none of my messages or calendar have
appeared
and the size of the original pst file has gone from a few hundred MB
to
265kb. I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
Thank you
Martyn
