OK: if by 'default PST file' you mean the Outlook.pst file generated by 2003,
then yes I'm opening that. And yes, in the Contacts view in 2007 under My
Contacts there's a list of the Contacts folders, one for each opened data
file. Problem is, they're all empty... I'm thinking I'm going to have to work
round this the clunky way, by trying to slurp them off the pda...

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Clive McF wrote:

Think I must be missing something here-sorry. By "Outlook data file"
do you mean the Outlook.pst file generated by Outlook 2003. If so, I
can open this fine in Outlook 2007 with FileOpenPersonal Folder
File, and can access the email messages, the folder hierarchy etc
exactly as in Outlook 2003. But no contacts.

Are you looking at the Mail view in the Navigation Pane? If so, then
naturally you won't see any Contacts because Contacts folders aren'e mail
folders. Switch to the Folder List view and you should see the Contacts
folder.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Then you either never put Contacts in this file, you are not using the
correct file, or you did not transfer it correctly. Outlook does not create
any data when it creates a PST file. Only the end user can do that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Clive McF" wrote in message
...
OK: if by 'default PST file' you mean the Outlook.pst file generated by
2003,
then yes I'm opening that. And yes, in the Contacts view in 2007 under My
Contacts there's a list of the Contacts folders, one for each opened data
file. Problem is, they're all empty... I'm thinking I'm going to have to
work
round this the clunky way, by trying to slurp them off the pda...

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Clive McF wrote:

Think I must be missing something here-sorry. By "Outlook data file"
do you mean the Outlook.pst file generated by Outlook 2003. If so, I
can open this fine in Outlook 2007 with FileOpenPersonal Folder
File, and can access the email messages, the folder hierarchy etc
exactly as in Outlook 2003. But no contacts.

Are you looking at the Mail view in the Navigation Pane? If so, then
naturally you won't see any Contacts because Contacts folders aren'e mail
folders. Switch to the Folder List view and you should see the Contacts
folder.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Clive McF wrote:

OK: if by 'default PST file' you mean the Outlook.pst file generated
by 2003, then yes I'm opening that.

The "default" PST is the one you've chosen for your delivery location
whether you created it or the Outlook installation created it.

And yes, in the Contacts view in
2007 under My Contacts there's a list of the Contacts folders, one
for each opened data file. Problem is, they're all empty... I'm
thinking I'm going to have to work round this the clunky way, by
trying to slurp them off the pda...

If the Contacts folders are empty and you added them to your mail profile
with FileOpenOutlook Data File, then they were empty to begin with.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]