Hi folks - perhaps someone can help me - we have a new(er) computer but are
still using all our old software hence our Office 2002 has been reloaded
onto the newer machine and with it Outlook 2002. I still have the hard disk
from our elderly machine and have put it into a USB caddy so that I can
access all the data on it. Both machines run XP Pro. I want to copy all the
e-mail from the old hard disk (now in the USB caddy) to the new one so that
we still have the messages and address book on the newer computer. I've
copies the 'outlook' directory from the hidden Applications|Microsoft
directory which gives me Outcmd.dat (3k), Outlook.FAV (25k), Outlook.NK2
(51k), Outlook.srs (3k) and Outlprnt (38k) and have copied the 'Outlook'
directory from the hidden Local Settings directory to give me extend.dat
(2k) and Outlook.pst (96k).
Needless to say, nothing appears in outlook - no addresses, no mail,
nothing! So, obviously I have missed something somewhere. Any ideas?
Steve

A 96kb outlook.pst is unlikely to conatain any mail/data, I suggest you
search your old hd for *.pst
The OL data file, pst, does not have to be located in the default location
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

"Steve Long" wrote in message
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Hi folks - perhaps someone can help me - we have a new(er) computer but
are still using all our old software hence our Office 2002 has been
reloaded onto the newer machine and with it Outlook 2002. I still have the
hard disk from our elderly machine and have put it into a USB caddy so
that I can access all the data on it. Both machines run XP Pro. I want to
copy all the e-mail from the old hard disk (now in the USB caddy) to the
new one so that we still have the messages and address book on the newer
computer. I've copies the 'outlook' directory from the hidden
Applications|Microsoft directory which gives me Outcmd.dat (3k),
Outlook.FAV (25k), Outlook.NK2 (51k), Outlook.srs (3k) and Outlprnt (38k)
and have copied the 'Outlook' directory from the hidden Local Settings
directory to give me extend.dat (2k) and Outlook.pst (96k).
Needless to say, nothing appears in outlook - no addresses, no mail,
nothing! So, obviously I have missed something somewhere. Any ideas?
Steve