Moving Outlook files?

[Ian]

How can I migrate my outlook files, email and contacts from old computer to new?

 

[Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook & Exchange/Windows Messaging Backup and Dual-Boot:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

 

[Jason McClellan]

Is there any reason you can't simply copy your PST file, and replace the new
one with the old one after installing the new copy of outlook?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You should not overwrite a PST file. If you want to use a previous PST, you
must expressly configure Outlook to do so.

To use another PST file (such as one from an earlier installation) and set
it to be the default for your current installation of Outlook, you will
first need to know the location and name of the PST file you'd like to use
as your new default. Then use the following directions, depending on version
and mode of Outlook:

Corporate Mode: (With Outlook closed)
- Control Panel > Mail applet
- Remove the current Personal Folder service
- Readd the service, directing it to the new PST file location
- Restart Outlook

Internet Mail Only mode:
- File menu > Open > Personal Folders file > migrate to the new PST file
location to open it
- Right-click on the root of the new set of folders in the folder pane (View

Folder List)

- Choose Properties
- Check the "Deliver POP mail" box
- Quit & restart Outlook
- Now you can Close the PST file that you were previously using (R-click on
that pst folder while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername>
Folders"). If you have any information in your former PST that you'd like to
transfer to your new default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the
other before you close the old one.


Outlook 2002:
- Go to Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Data Files > Add...
- Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close > OK to exit the
Options dialog
- Go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > View or change existing e-mail accounts
- Select the PST you just added in the "Deliver New e-mail to the following
location" dropdown (it will most likely appear just below the current
default Personal Folders file) > Finish
- Exit and Restart Outlook
- You can now close the previous default PST (R-click on that pst folder
while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername> Folders"). If you have
any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new
default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close
the old one.



--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is there any reason you can't simply copy your PST file, and replace the new
one with the old one after installing the new copy of outlook?

Outlook & Exchange/Windows Messaging Backup and Dual-Boot:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

How can I migrate my outlook files, email and contacts from old computer to
new?

 

[Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]]

You could but the PST file does not include some stuff.
The site mentioned below (Slipstick) also gives information on how
to include any rules that you may have written, Stationery that
you are using, etc.

 

[Jason McClellan]

How about when 'moving' a pst file.. if you simply move the file, outlook
will complain next time you start it, and ask where the file is. From then
on it seems to work fine. Is there some hidden problem with this, some
special hoops to jump through to do it 'right'?

Thanks

You could but the PST file does not include some stuff.
The site mentioned below (Slipstick) also gives information on how
to include any rules that you may have written, Stationery that
you are using, etc.

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

Is there any reason you can't simply copy your PST file, and replace the new
one with the old one after installing the new copy of outlook?

Outlook & Exchange/Windows Messaging Backup and Dual-Boot:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

How can I migrate my outlook files, email and contacts from old computer to
new?

 

[Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]]

The question was moving info from one computer to another.

The pst file holds your email stuff.

There are no hoops. No hidden problems, if you did not
use any stationery, rules, favorites, etc that you will want
on the computer.

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

How about when 'moving' a pst file.. if you simply move the file, outlook
will complain next time you start it, and ask where the file is. From then
on it seems to work fine. Is there some hidden problem with this, some
special hoops to jump through to do it 'right'?

Thanks

You could but the PST file does not include some stuff.
The site mentioned below (Slipstick) also gives information on how
to include any rules that you may have written, Stationery that
you are using, etc.

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

Is there any reason you can't simply copy your PST file, and replace the new
one with the old one after installing the new copy of outlook?

Outlook & Exchange/Windows Messaging Backup and Dual-Boot:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

How can I migrate my outlook files, email and contacts from old computer to
new?