Moving Data from Drive to PC

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Mikestrides

I blew up my main PC. Now I have taken the drive out and hooked it up as an
external drive. I want to take the contacts and email out of the drive and
import them in to my current pc. Where are the files located? Anyidea or
suggestions would be very helpful.
Thanks
Mike
 
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Lawrence E. Oliver

Several questions first:

(1) What were you using Outlook (what version?) or Outlook Express for your
email & contacts?

(2) What OS were you using and what OS are you using now?

The suggestions will depend on your anwsers to these questions.

Larry
 
M

Mikestrides

Please look below for the answers and thank you
Lawrence E. Oliver said:
Several questions first:

(1) What were you using Outlook (what version?) or Outlook Express for your
email & contacts? OUtlook XP

(2) What OS were you using and what OS are you using now? xp pro on both

The suggestions will depend on your anwsers to these questions.

Larry
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Lawrence E. Oliver

I skipped the Outlook XP, however, I have used Outlook 2K and Outlook 2K3 -
both had the .pst file at the following location:

C:\Document and Settings\"your profile"\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

The "your profile" is whatever profile you sign in on. In the Outlook folder
you will find file "Outlook.pst" (your basic file which includes email,
contacts, calender, etc), and "archive.pst" (your archives of older email,
contacts, calender, etc) and if you used the standard settings on the MS
PowerToy which does a backup of your basic file, you will find "Outlook
Backup.pst".

You will need to copy those file to your new folder - note that this does
not need to be at the location shown above. You can set this any where and
then point your Outlook at it. I use a folder in "My Documents" since I keep
my documents on another drive than the OS & programs.

Hope this helps.

Larry
 
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DL

And, importantly, do NOT overwrite any existing pst.
Within OL, File/Open/Data File........browse to the location.
Do NOT use the import option
 
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