"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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(clip) Your second problem has been answered countless times. Exporting
and importing are never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. Doing so
through a non-Outlook format is just a guarantee that you will lose and
corrupt data. Electronic addresses, for example, are never resolved when
you import them. That of course is why they don't show up in the Address
Book view. Open and save each Contact record one at a time to force the
resolution, or go back and transfer the data correctly: Place them in a PST
file and open that PST file in the new installation. Do not ever touch the
export and import command to transfer Outlook data ever again. Not even
once.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Blasting Cap" wrote in message
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I am trying to get a couple issues resolved with Outlook 2003 on a Windows
XP media system.

First issue is with the "The Operation Failed" with your only option an
OK button. I've re-created the profile, but it hasn't been fixed yet.

The system was originally connected to a Microsoft Exchange server, as
its default mail server. The user had a number of contacts, which were
saved as a Windows CSV file. The contacts, once the Exchange server was
removed from Outlook, were imported. They show up in contacts.

This brings me to the second problem - even though the contacts that were
imported into Outlook show up under Contacts, when you click on the Check
Name tool on the toolbar, it can't find it, looking in Contacts, and
Address book has no entries.

How do you make this thing check name against the contacts you have on
the system? These problems may be related to one another.

Please advise.

Thanks,

BC

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Russ, despite the "countless times" this subject of how best to transfer
Outlook PST data between machines has come up I feel that I'm going to have
to chime in here - I hear the proferred professional advice from you. As a
simple domestic user using XP/Outlook 2003 and Vista/MS Office 2007 I have
occasion to move stuff between machines every spring and fall when I move
from a winter setting and a summer setting. Consequently I have the need to
update things like contacts and move material under current consideration
periodically. Leaving out the niceties of differences between contacts and
address books, which I don't understand anyway, I find Outlook's internal
Import/Export system useful albeit a little labor intensive - but I have yet
to experience a loss, corruption or garbeling.

Frankly, especially between the myriad versions of Outlook I've experienced
and now yet another Windows, I don't know where my Outlook data is stored or
what the files are called. I can tell you that if I search my XP or Vista
machines, including hidden files, for PST files I don't return any, unless I
have created some into a hard drive folder in anticipation of transport on
one of these inexpensive mobile drives available today.

So if I have a question it is where does does Outlook store its data ... in
XP ... in Vista ... and what are these files called? Is there any
consistency here? With shifting locations, mutiple users etc and different
search functions and now "indexing" in Vista it's a wonder that I ever find
anything.

I am fearful of losing or corrupting or leaving data behind if I get into
diffricult to understand areas like this, difficult for a domestic civilian
such as me that is. I'm much more secure with Import/Export - as I'm sure
many others are. Regards, Denzil.