Outlook Banter - View Single Post - Importing OE6 into Office 2003 Outlook taking FOREVER

**Richard Eich** · November 29th 06, 11:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation

wrote...
Remember, you must be using a unicode .pst file in Outlook 2003 to import anything over 1.87 gigs of information. Otherwise, Outlook will hurl.

Funny you mention that -- that's exactly what happened.

Two questions, to which a URL or the right search words will help me
STFW:

1) How do I establish a unicode *.pst prior to import?

2) I have multiple OE identities. Does OL 2003 support that?

Thanks very much.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Richard Eich asked:

| address@invalid wrote...
|| Ideally you should export from OE to OL.
|| Not knowing much about OE I'd have thought your inbox.dbx was overly
|| large for correct operation of OE
|
| With me readily assuming all the risk here, how much harm could I do
| to kill OL, kill msimn.exe if need be, and try to export from OE
| rather than import?
|
| (Yes, the file sizes have been a little problematic.)
|
|| "Richard Eich" wrote in message
||| XP Pro SP2, w/auto updates enabled
|||
||| I'm trying to import messages from OE6 into Office 2003 Outlook,
||| after up upgrade to both IE7 (from IE6) and Office 2003 (from Office
||| 2000, without Outlook installed).
|||
||| The .dbx files are very large (e.g., inbox.dbx, nearly 1GB) and
||| there are a lot of them.
|||
||| Outlook has been hour-glassed for almost 9 hours. msimn.exe has
||| been as high as 28MB, although it's around 13MB now.
|||
||| How can I tell if things are going well?