transfer addresses from 2003 t0 2007

[Guest]

i bought a new pc that has ist and outlook 2007 i am not able transfer my
contacts from the ol pc with xp and outlook 2003 HELP!

 

[Gordon]

i bought a new pc that has ist and outlook 2007 i am not able transfer my
contacts from the ol pc with xp and outlook 2003 HELP!

How do you mean "I'm not able to transfer...."? How have you tried to do it?

 

[Guest]

How do you mean "I'm not able to transfer...."? How have you tried to do it?

I saved the contacts to a dvd disk as a pst file in outlook 2003 and then copied it to my hardrive on the new pc with vista /outlook 2007. I the opened outlook 2007 and clicked file tab, clicked import, cliced browse, found the file, clicked it and it said acces denied.

 

[Gordon]

Good! You should never import native Outlook data. Why?

(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

As to your problem, first make sure that the file has any read-Only
attribute removed, then in Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File and
navigate to where you copied it to. If you still get "Access denied" then I
would presume it's a Vista permissions problem, which unfortunately I know
nothing about!

 

[Diane Poremsky]

FWIW, when upgrading, we generally recommend making a pst using the newer
version and importing or opening the old pst and dragging the folders to the
new one. The newer version of outlook adds additional properties to the
outlook items and we suspect this is why Microsoft always recommends
importing. If you are sticking with the same version, then opening the old
pst is recommended.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ansi-to-unicode.asp#manual (use the same
method even if the old pst is Unicode)

Good! You should never import native Outlook data. Why?

(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a
ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not
advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

As to your problem, first make sure that the file has any read-Only
attribute removed, then in Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File and
navigate to where you copied it to. If you still get "Access denied" then
I would presume it's a Vista permissions problem, which unfortunately I
know nothing about!