I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been
backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info to
the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it.

Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window saying:
The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be
found.

In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when
opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control
panel".

What have I done and more importantly, how do I get my data back? Btw...I
followed the instructions here for backing up Outlook to get to this point.

Thanks!!!!

To see your connected data files use;
Control Panel- Mail- button Data Files...

Here you can also add/remove pst-files to Outlook.

It's hard to be any more specific without telling us exactly what you did or
which instructions "here" you followed.
A full backup and restore guide can be found at;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"Saidas" wrote in message
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I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been
backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info
to
the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it.

Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window
saying:
The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be
found.

In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when
opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations
control
panel".

What have I done and more importantly, how do I get my data back? Btw...I
followed the instructions here for backing up Outlook to get to this
point.

Thanks!!!!

"Saidas" wrote in message
...

I am preparing to upgrade to W7 from Vista HP and in doing so have been
backing up everything to an external HD. I copied and pasted Office info to
the HD and do anything else like delete or cut it.

Outlook opens but contains no data. I get a Personal Folders window saying:
The file C:\users\My Name\My Name\documents\office backup.post cannot be
found.

This is not the typical location for any PST. Sounds like you did change
something.

In Documents, I have Outlook icons of Outlook, backup, archive that when
opened say, "This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations
control
panel".

You don't open Outlook data files by double-clicking them in Windows Explorer.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]