Milly & Russ,

I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of changing the
name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had between my contacts
and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it back to
its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have read tips
here before messing with the .PST file.

Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed? I've
been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and the fix
exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and need to
start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the MVP's! I've
learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the future.

Thanks,
Chris

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in Outlook, use
File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all connections to custom
forms, contact linkages, etc.

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After furious head scratching, EBR asked:

| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was to
| import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have reestablished
| Outlook?
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
|| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
|| you trying to switch to some other program?
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "EBR" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
||| etc become
||| invalid after an export/import?