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George Marshall
[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.outlook and a copy was
sent to the cited author.]
I just upgraded hard disks and installed Windows XP on my PC. I had
saved my .PST file, so I thought it would be easy to bring Outlook 2002
back up like I had it before. I got all the messages back, but there
were some problems.
Oops 1: The PST file doesn't seem to have the account information in it
it, so I had to re-enter it. Not a big deal, but could someone tell me
if account info, view, etc can be saved for a re-install?
Oops 2: Even though all my folders were there, my Rules all lost their
references to folders. I had to go through each Rule, and point it at
the appropriate folder again.
How can I avoid this problem in the next re-install?
Opps 3, the biggest one: When I connected to my ISP to get the new email
I missed while the PC was down a couple of days, Outlook re-fetched
everything that was on the ISP's server, in this case about 700 messages
(yes, mostly spam), so I had lots of duplicates, which I had to sort out
manually. What a pain!
Can someone please tell me how to avoid this duplication problem?
Thanks,
George
sent to the cited author.]
I just upgraded hard disks and installed Windows XP on my PC. I had
saved my .PST file, so I thought it would be easy to bring Outlook 2002
back up like I had it before. I got all the messages back, but there
were some problems.
Oops 1: The PST file doesn't seem to have the account information in it
it, so I had to re-enter it. Not a big deal, but could someone tell me
if account info, view, etc can be saved for a re-install?
Oops 2: Even though all my folders were there, my Rules all lost their
references to folders. I had to go through each Rule, and point it at
the appropriate folder again.
How can I avoid this problem in the next re-install?
Opps 3, the biggest one: When I connected to my ISP to get the new email
I missed while the PC was down a couple of days, Outlook re-fetched
everything that was on the ISP's server, in this case about 700 messages
(yes, mostly spam), so I had lots of duplicates, which I had to sort out
manually. What a pain!
Can someone please tell me how to avoid this duplication problem?
Thanks,
George