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Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003
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My wife crashed my computer - well, she would say, she happened to be using it was using it when it crashed! I'd been using Outlook 2003 for emails and OE 6.0 as newsreader. The PC was so messed up, XP wouldn't even boot into safe mode. Mobo, processor and were fairly ancient anyway so I built a new PC, installed XP onto that, did online activation etc. I managed to connect the old HDD as a secondary master and copied across hundreds of text files etc. Only trouble is I can't seem to import my emails!!! Outlook only offers me an import from other programs, not a previous install of itself. I've read about .pst files but can't find any on my old HDD. BTW I am still using Outlook Express also but only as a newsreader. I managed to import some older mails from an OE 6.0 identity but not the recent stuff. Any ideas how to get those emails back would be greatly appreciated! A |
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Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003
Search the *hidden* folders and files (advanced options) on the old hard
disk and look for files with the PST extension. For each one that you find, use the File Open Outlook data file command to open them in your new Outlook setup. You can use Edit|Move to move entire folders or sets of messages to the personal folders that the new Outlook setup created. When you've moved everything over, right-click the top level of the folder list and "close" it. -- Athena On 04 May 2004 07:33, "Anton" wrote: Hi My wife crashed my computer - well, she would say, she happened to be using it was using it when it crashed! I'd been using Outlook 2003 for emails and OE 6.0 as newsreader. The PC was so messed up, XP wouldn't even boot into safe mode. Mobo, processor and were fairly ancient anyway so I built a new PC, installed XP onto that, did online activation etc. I managed to connect the old HDD as a secondary master and copied across hundreds of text files etc. Only trouble is I can't seem to import my emails!!! Outlook only offers me an import from other programs, not a previous install of itself. I've read about .pst files but can't find any on my old HDD. BTW I am still using Outlook Express also but only as a newsreader. I managed to import some older mails from an OE 6.0 identity but not the recent stuff. Any ideas how to get those emails back would be greatly appreciated! A |
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Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003
Just to update you folks, I got there in the end!
First of all, simple mistake, I didn't find the .pst file on the old HDD as I hadn't specified 'search hidden files and folders' in the search command. Once I knew where my old .pst file was, all 73 MB worth of precious inbox, outbox and contact info, I copied it onto my desktop. My present version of Outlook 2003 didn't want to open it; seemed like it was corrupted as an Outlook Data File. So I googled up on that, found the scanpst utility on my C: drive which sure enough found some errors in my old ..pst file and fixed them. Outlook could then open this file as a new set of Personal Folders. Not sure yet whether I can merge old and new fully - not too worried really, as long as I can access my old emails!!! HTH A "Anton" wrote in message ... Hi My wife crashed my computer - well, she would say, she happened to be using it was using it when it crashed! I'd been using Outlook 2003 for emails and OE 6.0 as newsreader. The PC was so messed up, XP wouldn't even boot into safe mode. Mobo, processor and HDD were fairly ancient anyway so I built a new PC, installed XP onto that, did online activation etc. I managed to connect the old HDD as a secondary master and copied across hundreds of text files etc. Only trouble is I can't seem to import my emails!!! Outlook only offers me an import from other programs, not a previous install of itself. I've read about .pst files but can't find any on my old HDD. BTW I am still using Outlook Express also but only as a newsreader. I managed to import some older mails from an OE 6.0 identity but not the recent stuff. Any ideas how to get those emails back would be greatly appreciated! A |
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Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003
On Wed, 5 May 2004 06:50:45 +0100 Anton wrote:
Not sure yet whether I can merge old and new fully - not too worried really, as long as I can access my old emails!!! With both folder sets open in Outlook, open a folder, select and item then click "Edit|Select All|, followed by Edit|Copy to folder..." and copy all the information from one folder set to another. Once you have copied everything to the folder set you want to use, you can right-click "Close" the unwanted folder set. NOTE: If you decide to use your old folder set as your default, you have to set it as the delivery location for new mail (bottom of the Email Accounts dialog) before you can close the new one. -- Athena |
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