Returning entries are gone after switch to Office XP

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Alexander Weidemann

Hi!
I have exported (using import/export) OUTLOOK 2002 Data including all
subdirectories and reimported them to Outlook XP .
After having a first glance on the data I later realized that every
returning entry is gone. Like "gym on wednesday" or "eating sauerkraut
each sunday" ! Did I do something wrong? can I solve this problem in any
way? Did somebody have it before and can help me?

Einie
 
Alexander Weidemann said:
I have exported (using import/export) OUTLOOK 2002 Data including all
subdirectories and reimported them to Outlook XP .
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There is no such thing as "Outlook XP". Outlook 2002 is a part of Office
XP.

That's not the best way to save Outlook data. Exporting can lose data. The
best way is simply to make a copy of your PST with Outlook closed. You
don't export a Word document to open it in another instance of Word, you
just copy the .doc file to the machine with the other instance of Word and
use File>Open to open it. It's no different with PSTs, since those are the
native Outlook format files.
After having a first glance on the data I later realized that every
returning entry is gone. Like "gym on wednesday" or "eating sauerkraut
each sunday" ! Did I do something wrong? can I solve this problem in
any way? Did somebody have it before and can help me?
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Instead of importing, just open the PST with File>Open>Outlook Data File.
Copy the items in the Calendar folder in that file to the Calendar folder in
the current PST. Alternatively, after opening the PST, use Tools>E-mail
Accounts>Next and, at the bottom left, switch your default delivery location
to use the just-opened PST. All your old data will eb exactly as you saw it
before, provided the export didn't remove some of the information in the
original PST.

If you still have the original Outlook available and operational, just copy
that PST from wherever it is to the new instance of Outlook, make sure it's
not read-only, and open it as described above. You'll have everything you
originally had with nothing missing.
 
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