Ray19 wrote:

Thanks Brian for your response. I followed the instructions in the
reference you gave copying my .pst files from my old hard drive to
the new one but could not change my .pst file from a read only? I
could unhighlight the box and apply but when I looked at it again it
was back to read only? I'm new to Vista moving from XP and of course
there's many things to learn!

Where on the new PC did you place the PST? Are you saying that you
right-clicked the PST after placing it on your new hard drive, chose
Properties, and unchecked the read-only box, only to have it rechecked
later?

Would I be able to use my old 2002 Outlook .pst file with Outlook
2007 and Vista?

Sure, but you should convert it to a Unicode PST (the native Outlook
2003/2007 format) at some point so that it never reaches its maxiumum OL
2002 size of 2 GB. Once you get the read-only issue fixed, just make the
old PST the delivery location in the mail profile.

I'm really trying to retrieve my address book which is quite
extensive. Retrieving the old e-mails (complete record) would be nice
but is not that important.

Outlook doesn't have an "address book". All contacts are kept in the
Contacts folder. You might have had a "Personal Address Book" (a file
ending in ".pab"), but they haven't been used active by Outlook for a
decade.

My provider is SBC Yahoo and I much prefer Outlook to Yahoo Mai!

You can use both or either. I do. I also use Outlook Express and one other
mail client, depending on the situation.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]