I just changed the disk drive in my computer.

I went through the Export and Import routine.

However, when I imported to the new drive, the only thing that
survived was all my email.

Neither the rules nor the accounts were imported.

Did I miss a step?

Thank you.

The rules & accounts are saved by the Office Save My Settings wizard not by
an Outlook export.

"Mary Hartman" wrote in message
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I just changed the disk drive in my computer.

I went through the Export and Import routine.

However, when I imported to the new drive, the only thing that
survived was all my email.

Neither the rules nor the accounts were imported.

Did I miss a step?

Mary Hartman wrote:

I just changed the disk drive in my computer.

I went through the Export and Import routine.

There's your mistake. Export and import is never the way to transfer your
Outlook data. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm and this:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/movepst.htm
--
Brian Tillman

Brian Tillman wrote:
Mary Hartman wrote:

I just changed the disk drive in my computer.

I went through the Export and Import routine.

There's your mistake. Export and import is never the way to transfer
your Outlook data. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm and this:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/movepst.htm

I'm one of those who found this out AFTER I had done it. It just
doesn't make sense to me NOT to think people would be likely to check
out importing and/or exporting if moving from one program to another.

To me, this is like Outlook not having "an address book." The contact
list looks like an address book, acts like an address book and works
like an address book but it's a contact list, not an address book.

Outlook Express is not a stripped down version of Outlook...how in the
world could anyone be so stupid as to make that assumption?

Just a few of MS thought processes which don't make sense to me. :-(

Of course they would use exporting and importing when moving from one
program to another. That's what it's for.
But OP is not moving from one program to another. She's using the same
program.
You don't export your Word documents to use them on another drive, do you?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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Brian Tillman wrote:
Mary Hartman wrote:

I just changed the disk drive in my computer.

I went through the Export and Import routine.

There's your mistake. Export and import is never the way to transfer
your Outlook data. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm and this:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/movepst.htm

I'm one of those who found this out AFTER I had done it. It just doesn't
make sense to me NOT to think people would be likely to check out
importing and/or exporting if moving from one program to another.

To me, this is like Outlook not having "an address book." The contact
list looks like an address book, acts like an address book and works like
an address book but it's a contact list, not an address book.

Outlook Express is not a stripped down version of Outlook...how in the
world could anyone be so stupid as to make that assumption?

Just a few of MS thought processes which don't make sense to me. :-(