Milly & Russ,

I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of changing the
name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had between my contacts
and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it back to
its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have read tips
here before messing with the .PST file.

Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed? I've
been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and the fix
exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and need to
start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the MVP's! I've
learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the future.

Thanks,
Chris

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in Outlook, use
File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all connections to custom
forms, contact linkages, etc.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, EBR asked:

| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was to
| import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have reestablished
| Outlook?
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
|| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
|| you trying to switch to some other program?
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "EBR" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
||| etc become
||| invalid after an export/import?

Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them.
Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always a good
idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically, especially
before you try to migrate your data.
Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous tasks
in Outlook. It gets worse with each version.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Chris In Chesapeake" Chris In wrote
in message ...
Milly & Russ,

I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of changing the
name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had between my
contacts
and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it back
to
its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have read
tips
here before messing with the .PST file.

Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed?
I've
been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and the
fix
exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and need to
start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the MVP's! I've
learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the future.

Thanks,
Chris

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in Outlook, use
File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all connections to custom
forms, contact linkages, etc.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, EBR asked:

| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was to
| import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have reestablished
| Outlook?
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
|| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
|| you trying to switch to some other program?
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "EBR" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
||| etc become
||| invalid after an export/import?

And with 2 versions of the .pst files out there, it promises to get worse
rather than better.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them.
| Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always
| a good idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically,
| especially before you try to migrate your data.
| Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous
| tasks in Outlook. It gets worse with each version.
|| Milly & Russ,
||
|| I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of
|| changing the name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had
|| between my contacts
|| and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it
|| back to
|| its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have
|| read tips
|| here before messing with the .PST file.
||
|| Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed?
|| I've
|| been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and
|| the fix
|| exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and
|| need to start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the
|| MVP's! I've learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the
|| future.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Chris
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in
||| Outlook, use File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all
||| connections to custom forms, contact linkages, etc.
|||
||| --�
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, EBR asked:
|||
|||| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was
|||| to import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have
|||| reestablished Outlook?
||||
|||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
||||| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
||||| you trying to switch to some other program?
||||| --
||||| Russ Valentine
||||| [MVP-Outlook]
||||| "EBR" wrote in message
||||| ...
|||||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
|||||| etc become
|||||| invalid after an export/import?

What do you mean by "2 versions of the .pst files out there..." Do you mean
because I had two versions of my .PST file or do you mean that one version of
outlook treats the PST file differently than another? If so, we are just
further up that creek without a paddle. Thanks for the replies from you and
Russ.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

And with 2 versions of the .pst files out there, it promises to get worse
rather than better.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them.
| Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always
| a good idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically,
| especially before you try to migrate your data.
| Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous
| tasks in Outlook. It gets worse with each version.
|| Milly & Russ,
||
|| I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of
|| changing the name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had
|| between my contacts
|| and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it
|| back to
|| its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have
|| read tips
|| here before messing with the .PST file.
||
|| Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed?
|| I've
|| been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and
|| the fix
|| exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and
|| need to start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the
|| MVP's! I've learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the
|| future.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Chris
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in
||| Outlook, use File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all
||| connections to custom forms, contact linkages, etc.
|||
||| --�
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, EBR asked:
|||
|||| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was
|||| to import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have
|||| reestablished Outlook?
||||
|||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
||||| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
||||| you trying to switch to some other program?
||||| --
||||| Russ Valentine
||||| [MVP-Outlook]
||||| "EBR" wrote in message
||||| ...
|||||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
|||||| etc become
|||||| invalid after an export/import?

Milly was just agreeing with my contention that migrating PST data files
from one version of Outlook to another has become a task that is so arduous
and so poorly supported that few users will get it right. The fact that the
default format for PST files changed from ANSI to UNICODE with Outlook 2003
makes a difficult task nearly impossible. It is a problem that Microsoft
needs to address.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Chris In Chesapeake" wrote in
message ...
What do you mean by "2 versions of the .pst files out there..." Do you
mean
because I had two versions of my .PST file or do you mean that one version
of
outlook treats the PST file differently than another? If so, we are just
further up that creek without a paddle. Thanks for the replies from you
and
Russ.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

And with 2 versions of the .pst files out there, it promises to get worse
rather than better.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them.
| Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always
| a good idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically,
| especially before you try to migrate your data.
| Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous
| tasks in Outlook. It gets worse with each version.
|| Milly & Russ,
||
|| I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of
|| changing the name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had
|| between my contacts
|| and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it
|| back to
|| its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have
|| read tips
|| here before messing with the .PST file.
||
|| Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed?
|| I've
|| been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and
|| the fix
|| exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and
|| need to start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the
|| MVP's! I've learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the
|| future.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Chris
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in
||| Outlook, use File-Open-Outlook Data File. This preserves all
||| connections to custom forms, contact linkages, etc.
|||
||| --�
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, EBR asked:
|||
|||| My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was
|||| to import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have
|||| reestablished Outlook?
||||
|||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Links have always been broken with importing and exporting.
||||| The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are
||||| you trying to switch to some other program?
||||| --
||||| Russ Valentine
||||| [MVP-Outlook]
||||| "EBR" wrote in message
||||| ...
|||||| Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events,
|||||| etc become
|||||| invalid after an export/import?