"Chris Greeley" wrote in message
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On Jun 26, 8:05 am, Gordon wrote:
Chris Greeley wrote:
On Jun 26, 6:54 am, "Gordon" wrote:
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I am trying to copy/paste/or otherwise transfer the entire calendar
with events onto a notebook computer. How do I go about doing this?
If you are not using Exchange Server, close Outlook, make a copy of
the pst
file and transfer that to the notebook. Do NOT overwrite any existing
pst
file. Then in Outlook on the notebook, do File-Open-Outlook Data File,
navigate to where you put the copied file and either copy or drag and
drop
the data to your existing file. Do NOT USE THE IMPORT/EXPORT FUNCTION.

HTH

Just curious...Why not import the .pst? I have created .pst from the
export function and have opened them without a problem, what will the
importing it do? Will it overwrite all other data already present?
Just interested (Not that I am going to do it).
Thanks,
Chris

The consensus of opinion among most experienced users is that the
transfer of Outlook data between instances of Outlook via the
import/export function is very much prone to data loss and/or corruption
- you must have been quite lucky not to experience that. The copying of
the pst file and the use of the Open-Outlook Data File function is
(almost!) 100% foolproof.....
The import/export function is really designed to allow the transfer of
Outlook data to and from non-Outlook applications, such as Access,
Excel, etc.- Hide quoted text -

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I'm changing jobs and will be contents of my outlook with me. My
outlook (2003) is 1.8 GB in size. Should I create a totally new .pst?
I've exported each email folder to it's own .pst and can open them
without a problem. I have 15 or so .pst files, but they are all on a
CD.

Should I have not exported the .pst and simply created a new .pst for
the entire outlook? How would I do that to ensure the the
current .pst is not altered?

Thanks,
Chris




All you needed to do was to make a copy of the existing pst file onto a CD.

here's some reasons why exporting/importing a pst file is not a good idea:
Importing an entire PST may 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.