Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them.
Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always a good
idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically, especially
before you try to migrate your data.
Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous tasks
in Outlook. It gets worse with each version.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Chris In Chesapeake" Chris In wrote
in message ...
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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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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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?