Outlook 2007 Migration

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PAB

Hello,
As I changed my hardware, I tried to reinstall Outlook 2007 on the new
machine minimizing the necessity to reconfigure the account information and
the number of duplicates. These would be created, if I were not able to
distinguish between old mails I had received in the past and new mails
arrived during the migration phase. Indeed, I use the storage capacity of my
mail provider as a kind of additional backup. That is the reason why I have
thousands of mails I do not wish to receive again.
To accomplish this aim I saved following keys of the registry database
- Key 1: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676
- Key 2:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
After reinstallation of Outlook 2007, I configured an empty profile. After
this, I processed the stored registry key 1 to add them to the current reg
db. The result is, I can see all old accounts of the account information. I
added the passwords to them, which were not stored in the reg file, and
started ro receive mails for each account stopping it after a short time in
order to create the "UnreadMail"-keys. And yes, they were created with two
exceptions:
-There is one IMAP account I cannot see. I assume there is no need to store
information about unread mail in IMAP accounts.
- There is one POP account I cannot see. I do not have any explanation for
this.
Then I overwrote the “UnreadMailâ€-keys by processing Key 2. They were
definitely changed as desired. Unfortunately the whole porcess did not do,
what it should do. Replacing the "UnreadMail"-information is not recognized,
i.e., Outlook tries to get all mails anyway.
What went wrong? Any idea, what I have to do additionally? Please, bear in
mind that the old installation does not exist any more. However, I have
access to backup files incl. the old registry db.
Thank you for your support, Peter
 
R

Roady [MVP]

The second registry key has nothing to do with Outlook remembering which
mails have been downloaded or not. It's just a cache representation used for
other applications (and the welcome screen) to show how many unread items
there were last time.

The list of what's been downloaded and what's not is kept in a hidden
message within the pst-file and is tied to the mail profile. Manually
recreating the profile and then overwriting it with old data is a good way
to get a corrupted mail profile as the references are unique. If you keep
everything in its exact place (pst-files and other supporting files), you
might get away by exporting the complete mail profile registry key and
copying over the pst-file and then importing the registry file but it's
still not a good way.

Better would be to use a proper backup tool which does the right level of
abstraction for you and restore the proper references. Outlook Backup by ABF
Soft did it properly for me;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/abf_outlookbackup

If you decide to order use ABF-1HTJ8 to get a discount.



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