No one ever said you corrupted a PST file, but you most certainly lost data.
The luck was that it was data you happened not to need, such as Rules and
Distribution Lists and links to Contacts and links to the Calendar and the
links to the address book view. Others may want to preserve that information
in their next installation.
Exporting and importing the entire PST file to populate a new installation
is simply a bad practice that should not be recommended.
--
Russ Valentine
"Leythos" wrote in message
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No. I wouldn't disagree. Exporting and importing work fine when users
only
want to transfer a _portion_ of the PST file and are simpler than copying
and opening the entire PST just to transfer a small portion of the file.


In all the years, decade+, that I've been doing this I've only rarely
had a reason to do part of a outlook export, it's (except for a dozen)
be the entire outlook exported and then imported, into the same version
or a newer version, and I've never had a corrupted PST, not once, never,
nada, and I can't believe, after thousands of cases, that it's "Luck".

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says...

No one ever said you corrupted a PST file, but you most certainly lost data.
The luck was that it was data you happened not to need, such as Rules and
Distribution Lists and links to Contacts and links to the Calendar and the
links to the address book view. Others may want to preserve that information
in their next installation.

Um, if you're smart enough to export the PST, why not be smart enough to
export the rules?

All of my distribution lists export and import properly....

Exporting and importing the entire PST file to populate a new installation
is simply a bad practice that should not be recommended.



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You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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You appear to have some pressing need to validate and defend your own
experience. That experience is anecdote and should be recognized as such for
the benefit of other readers of this thread.
The experience of many is far more valid than the experience of one. In
this newsgroup over the last 12 years we have confirmed that the following
information is not transferred when you export and import a PST file:
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
8. Rules
9. Link between Contacts and the address book view, which cannot be
re-established until a new profile is created and the data migrated
properly.

If none of that information is important, then sure you can export and
import. Why you would want to remains a mystery, however, since simply
copying and opening the PST file is much easier and preserves all of the
above information.
The cardinal rule when providing advice in these groups is primum non
nocere. Your insistence that export and import is the best way to transfer
Outlook data to a new installation violates that rule. Readers of this
thread should know that so they can make up their own mind on what they want
to do. This is a public newsgroup. Your opinion is welcome but needs to be
placed into context.
--
Russ Valentine
"Leythos" wrote in message
om...
In article ,
says...

No one ever said you corrupted a PST file, but you most certainly lost
data.
The luck was that it was data you happened not to need, such as Rules and
Distribution Lists and links to Contacts and links to the Calendar and
the
links to the address book view. Others may want to preserve that
information
in their next installation.

Um, if you're smart enough to export the PST, why not be smart enough to
export the rules?

All of my distribution lists export and import properly....

Exporting and importing the entire PST file to populate a new
installation
is simply a bad practice that should not be recommended.



--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
(remove 999 for proper email address)

In article ,
says...

You appear to have some pressing need to validate and defend your own
experience. That experience is anecdote and should be recognized as such for
the benefit of other readers of this thread.
The experience of many is far more valid than the experience of one. In
this newsgroup over the last 12 years we have confirmed that the following
information is not transferred when you export and import a PST file:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views

Never tried, don't have any myself and don't have any customers with
custom forms and views and I'm betting that 90% of people out there
don't either.

3. Connections between contacts and activities

What activities?

4. Received dates on mail

Sorry, I see the date the email was received on every email that is
imported from a PST. Don't know how you are missing it - please try it
yourself.

5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar

All calendar items, appointments, such as Birth days, Anniversaries,
that I've entered or customers have entered, are imported fine.

6. Journal connections

Don't know anyone that uses this, so I can't comment.

7. Distribution Lists

Distro lists, as in ones created in Outlook, in your contacts folder,
are also imported properly, worked fine since Office XP that I know of.

8. Rules

This is misleading as the Rules are not exported in a PST, Outlook
includes a function to export rules and they import just fine.

9. Link between Contacts and the address book view, which cannot be
re-established until a new profile is created and the data migrated
properly.

Never seen or tried this, switching VIEW modes in contacts shows all
contacts in the different views.

If none of that information is important, then sure you can export and
import. Why you would want to remains a mystery, however, since simply
copying and opening the PST file is much easier and preserves all of the
above information.

You've listed a lot of things that are incorrect for an export/import
between different versions as well as from/to the same version.

The cardinal rule when providing advice in these groups is primum non
nocere. Your insistence that export and import is the best way to transfer
Outlook data to a new installation violates that rule. Readers of this
thread should know that so they can make up their own mind on what they want
to do. This is a public newsgroup. Your opinion is welcome but needs to be
placed into context.

I have not insisted that Export/Import is the best anything, I've only
disputed what I've seen as incorrect. I don't maintain that either is
BEST, but I suggest you try each of the above items you list and come
back and let us know you were wrong.


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You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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