The correct way to migrate an Outlook data file is explained in Help Files:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...771141033.aspx
Essentially, you first open the file in an Outlook profile, designate it to
be your default, then restart Outlook and close its original PST file.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ritch_Ratch" wrote in message
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Hello,
For a good few years I've been saving my .pst file to my data drive so
when it comes to installing a new OS and office apps, I generally move
the .pst file from it's default location C:\Documents and
Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook then when outlook opens
and can't find it, I navigate to my data drive and load it from there.
I don't know if this is to be particulaly recommended as I think it is
still the old format .pst file I used with office 2000.
This always worked pretty well with previous versions of outlook, but with
2003 I doesnt seem to show my tasks, calendar contacts etc under the
personal folders. I don't really understand what action personal folder
perform, but I'd like all my othe folders to sit beneath it. Can't find
the contacts folder from the address book either.
thanks for any insightful comments

Rich