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Moved .pst File
I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook
2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
Moved .pst File
Can't.
You haven't provided enough information about your version. Outlook 2000 had 2 completely different versions. Which are you using? Internet Mail Only or Corp/Workgroup? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook 2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
Moved .pst File
Q1) Yes
With OL closed use Mail Applet in Control Panel to manage data files PS Presumably, in OL2003, you didnt use the unicode format to create a pst (the new format is not usable in pre OL2003, but doesnt have same size limitation and is apparently more stable) "jaygreg" wrote in message ... I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook 2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
Moved .pst File
Internet Mail Only
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Can't. You haven't provided enough information about your version. Outlook 2000 had 2 completely different versions. Which are you using? Internet Mail Only or Corp/Workgroup? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook 2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
Moved .pst File
- File menu Open Personal Folders file migrate to the new PST file
location to open it - Right-click on the root of the new set of folders in the folder pane (View Folder List) - Choose Properties - Check the "Deliver POP mail" box - Quit & restart Outlook - Now you can Close the PST file that you were previously using (R-click on that pst folder while in Folder View and select "Close foldername Folders"). If you have any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close the old one. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... Internet Mail Only "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Can't. You haven't provided enough information about your version. Outlook 2000 had 2 completely different versions. Which are you using? Internet Mail Only or Corp/Workgroup? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook 2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
Moved .pst File
Russ, your instructions forced me to realize I've had a misconception of
these files for a long time. I see now why I've had a few issues in the past that I never resolved and merely move on. Let me describe what I found on my main machine from which I'm mining this data. My original question concerned getting my .pst file to the WIN98SE portable. Now I'd like to examine that ..pst on the main machine more closely. Apparently, I've been operating with two sets of Personal Files in my Folders List on the WININDOWS XP HE machine since I got it two and a half years ago. I must have simply copied my old PST file to the location it's in now. I think all I ever did was use open that old file which brought it into the Folder List but never set it up to begin receiving mail. I'll post a new topic under Merging .pst Files. Please comment. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... - File menu Open Personal Folders file migrate to the new PST file location to open it - Right-click on the root of the new set of folders in the folder pane (View Folder List) - Choose Properties - Check the "Deliver POP mail" box - Quit & restart Outlook - Now you can Close the PST file that you were previously using (R-click on that pst folder while in Folder View and select "Close foldername Folders"). If you have any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close the old one. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... Internet Mail Only "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Can't. You haven't provided enough information about your version. Outlook 2000 had 2 completely different versions. Which are you using? Internet Mail Only or Corp/Workgroup? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jaygreg" wrote in message ... I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with Outlook 2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got religion last week though. I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and fired it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu, found the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the first set of clean folder created during the original install. Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders? Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set? When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to take to make this whole again. Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance on how to get myself out of this fix? |
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