Importing an entire PST will corrupt your profile and by creating 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. Microsoft has not yet caught
on.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Remove ABCD from Email address to reply" wrote in
message ...
I know that Bob Newman said he used the wrong term and he did not import.
Earlier today I had a problem with Outlook and Microsoft Tech support (from
India) tried to help me. They of course did not fix my problem and in fact
made it worse. They also insisted that I import my pst file into a new pst
file that was created upon the new installation. The only thing that went
right with all of their "help" was that the import did work and did not
cause any loss of data. So all that being said, do you really lose data
when you import from a PST? I never did a pst import before and also did a
simple copy.

--

Neil


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Why didn't you do what you said? You use File Open. You never use
Import unless you want to lose data or corrupt your profile, which you
have now done.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bob Newman" wrote in message
...
It seems to have worked fine with a minor (I assume) problem. The import
created a separate folder tree entitled Bob's Folders as it was on the
other computer. It contains all my created subfolders and data. Above
that is still the default Personal Folders tree (which I no longer
need). How do I get rid of that section?

Thanks again... Bob

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Yes to all. Those are you best options for transferring Outlook data.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Bob Newman" wrote in message
news I installed Office on the new computer. Can I just copy the pst file
from the old to new computer? Can I put it in a different location if
I wish and just choose the Flie/Open command to the new location?

Thanks in advance... Bob