Those instructions are wrong. I don't know why they won't change them. We've
told them countless times to do so. Importing and exporting lose data every
time every time you use them. DL's are among the data that is lost if you
import and export.
Normally one would just make a copy of your Outlook data file then open it
in another installation. Then you can copy the data you need from it or
reuse it as the default in the new installation. That way no data is lost.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"FUMC" wrote in message
...
What I am attempting to do is move info from my old computer (Outlook) to
my
new computer (also with Outlook 2003). I logged onto the Outlook Help Menu
and followed those instructions:
On the file menu, click Import and export
Click on Export to a file, and then click Next
In the list, click Personal Folder File (.pst). and then click Next.
Click the contact folder. ...
Under Save exported file as, click browse....
(in other words...find a location, name it, then save it)
Click Finish.

Then you go into Outlook, once again to import and export, this time
choosing import (import from another program or file)
Click Personal Folder file (.pst), click next
In the File to Import box, specify the location of the file to import (in
this case it was the contact backup that I had created via the export from
Outlook and copied to My Documents on my hard drive)

Since there was no existing contact folder, I'm not sure which of the
three
options I chose in the next step, since I didn't think it mattered (i.e.,
allow duplicates, replace duplicates, don't allow duplicates)

...then completed the process.

The contact files imported into Outlook 2003, complete with distribution
lists. However, all of the distribution lists were empty. When I opened
the
backup file via Outlook, I found that those distribution lists were also
empty, so I suspect they didn't get imported when everything else was
imported, which doesn't make sense. I go to the old computer and each
distribution list contains members.

Is there a better way to move the information from the old computer to the
new one? Everything else seems to have copied just fine (all the files as
well as all the individual email addresses).



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Then you followed the wrong instructions.
Which ones did you follow?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"FUMC" wrote in message
news
I followed the instructions for copying mail and addresses from one
computer
to another, but when I open the "contacts" folder, none of the
addresses
appear in any of the distribution lists.