Rinse, repeat: Importing a .pst file into Outlook is unnecessary and WILL
result in loss of data. Use File->Open, copy the .pst contents into your
new .pst file or make the old one the default.
Please do not request that posters take actions that will result in loss of
data - File->Open is the method to access a prior .pst file.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Cathy in Texas
asked:
| I updated from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2002 XP and I
| would strongly suggest that you first make a backup copy
| of your .pst file onto a CDRom because it didn't load all
| of my addresses or file folders. Use the "import/export"
| feature of Outlook 2000, choose "export", then the PST
| option and save it to a directory where you can go and
| find. (Otherwise it picks the spot to move it to and
| it's a bear to find!) You *cannot* copy it directly to
| the CDRom. You have to put it on the hard disk first. If
| the CDRom fills up, as most of them are 700MB, it should
| ask you for a new one (hopefully). 2 Gigs is pretty
| large. The backup can then be imported into 2003 using
| the same "import/export" function (in case it doesn't
| refresh after upgrading.) Hope that helps!
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| You will need to access your 97-2002 .pst file in order to copy it
|| to a new unicode .pst file - the only way to do this is to have it
|| open. Opening it involves a cut/repair - see this page for details
|| and a link to the tool:
||
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.htm
||
|| Once you have it repaired (how did it get so friggin big in the first
|| place???), you can open it in OUtlook 2003, create a new unicode
|| .pst file and then drag and drop from the old to the new. Close the
|| old once complete.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Terry asked:
||
||| Please can someone tell me if I upgrade to Outlook 2003
||| from 2000 will I then be able to open my Outlook file?
||| Currently the Outlook file will not open because it is
||| now over the 2 gig file size limit for 2000 version.
|||
||| I need to get my data.
|||
||| Thanks
||| Terry
||
||
|| .
