Attempting to rescue old e-mails from Outlook stored on CD

[LadyIceNH]

I recently had to retire my old desktop PC running Windows 98 and I now have
a bright shiny new PC running Windows XP. As part of the my old machine's
last rites, I had my old files saved onto a CD. I used both Outlook Express
and Outlook (to keep my business and personal e-mails separate). I was able
to locate help in this forum to rescue my .dbx files back into Outlook
Express ... one hurdle passed. Now I'm trying to rescue my Outlook e-mails
and I cannot figure out where these files are! What is the file
type/extension? Would retrieving these be the same process as for Outlook
Express (copy all but the txt files to a folder on my hard drive and then use
the import function in Outlook)?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

 

[Anne Troy]

Yes, Lady. Try looking for outlook.pst and archive.pst. If you had any other
personal folders in Outlook, you may have additional *.pst files.
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~Anne Troy

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[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

One caveat: There is no need to import once LadyIceNH finds her files -- she
can just open them in Outlook via File | Open | Outlook Data File. See
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm for more information.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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