Outlook 2003 pst file

[flab]

recently had to reinstall Office 2003 after computer crash. Able to import
from pst file. Had utilitzed signatures to convey different messages at
bottom of my e-mails and they are now gone - how I can import them?

 

[Gordon]

recently had to reinstall Office 2003 after computer crash. Able to import
from pst file. Had utilitzed signatures to convey different messages at
bottom of my e-mails and they are now gone - how I can import them?

Firstly, for future reference, do not use the import/export function to move
data from Outlook to Outlook. Why?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

Secondly, I believe that the signatures are not held in the pst file, but in
the Outlook Profile, so there as you have re-installed, they are not there
(AFAIK) and you will have to re-create them. When you have, use the "Save My
Settings" wizard in Start-All Programs-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office
Tools in order to make a back-up of them...

HTH

 

[flab]

Thanks for this info - Quite honestly I am not sure whether I imported or
opened the old file. I still have the old file so I will look at the settings
you mentioned

recently had to reinstall Office 2003 after computer crash. Able to import
from pst file. Had utilitzed signatures to convey different messages at
bottom of my e-mails and they are now gone - how I can import them?

Firstly, for future reference, do not use the import/export function to move
data from Outlook to Outlook. Why?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

Secondly, I believe that the signatures are not held in the pst file, but in
the Outlook Profile, so there as you have re-installed, they are not there
(AFAIK) and you will have to re-create them. When you have, use the "Save My
Settings" wizard in Start-All Programs-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office
Tools in order to make a back-up of them...

HTH