Importing pst file to Outlook Express

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David

I am trying to import a .pst file to Outlook Express. It
imports some of my messages and all of the folders. The
problem are; It doesn't import all of the messages... no
messages from the prior year. And, it does import any
messages into most of the folders.

I thought I may have imported an old backup... however,
some of the folders it imports are folders that were
created during the last year.

I have tried different things for the last two days...
please help.

Thanks
 
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DL

I assume yr wishing to use OE rather than OL.
Are you sure the pst actually contains these msgs?, perhaps you archived it?
Have you searched, to include hidden, for *.pst?
 
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David

Yes... I would like to use OE... I am not sure that
the .pst actually contains the messages that I am
missing. It just seems weird that when I import the pst
file, it finds/creates FOLDERS that were created during
the last year, BUT no MESSAGES...

The file I backed-up was called archive... does archiving
messages result in a situation such as mine?

I had a friend reinstall windows... I suppose that the
old files are gone.
 
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DL

Archive removes msgs from the origonal pst, and saves them, inc.folder
structure, to a new pst, by default named archive.pst
It depends, amongst other things, on yr Archive settings, on the origonal
pst, exactly what msgs are archived.
 
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Brian Tillman

David said:
I am trying to import a .pst file to Outlook Express.
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Outlook Express can't import PSTs. It can only import directly from
Outlook. Since you say:
It imports some of my messages and all of the folders.
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then that must be what you are doing.
The problem are; It doesn't import all of the messages... no
messages from the prior year. And, it does import any
messages into most of the folders.
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You said in a later message:
The file I backed-up was called archive... does archiving
messages result in a situation such as mine?
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This sounds to me like you had an old archive file (which won't contain any
recent items) as the promary delivery location of an Outlook installation.
When you imported using Outlook Express, it pulled in everything in that
archive. Since the archive contained no recent data, none was imported.

The PST you want may be named Outlook.pst or Personal Folders.pst (since
those are two default names Outlook uses when creating PSTs). See if you
have one of those files, open it, make it your default delivery location in
Outlook, and import into Outlook Express again.
 
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