In Outlook 2000 and earlier, it is a "personal folders file."
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, DougieVan asked:
| Hi Donna,
|
| Sorry, my suggestion would have worked for Outlook 2007, 2003, and
| probably XP. I have actually never used Outlook 2000.
|
| But, you can try this: Once you have the .pst copied to your new
| computer, in Outlook, select File | Open, then look for something
| like "Outlook Data File."
|
| Doug
|
|| Doug,
||
|| Thanks for the help. When I do as you suggested (right click onthe
|| Default Personal Files Folder) it jumps down and highlights the
|| Inbox but I get no box on the side with other options to choose
|| from. I started right clicking on all the file folders and I never
|| got the option to "Open Outlook Data File". What am I doing wrong?
|| Don't know if I mentioned - I have Outlook 2000 if that makes a
|| difference.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Donna
||
|| "DougieVan" wrote:
||
||| Donna,
|||
||| Perhaps first you could try copying the file from your external
||| drive to your hard drive.
|||
||| Regardless of where the file is, the process should be to open
||| Outlook, right click the default Personal Files Folder, select
||| "Open Outlook Data File," and open the new file. You can then set
||| the file as default and delete the other one.
|||
||| DOug
|||
||| --
||| Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
||| Office System Solutions Specialist
||| 3Sharp
|||
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/
|||
|||
||| "DonnaPW" wrote:
|||
|||| I copied my Outlook data files to an external drive before getting
|||| a new computer. How do I get those files onto my new computer in
|||| Outlook? I have my external drive hooked up but I get an error
|||| message saying it can't find the file on my external drive. When
|||| I look it up on Windows Explorer it is there.
||||
|||| Help!!!!!
||||
|||| Thanks,
|||| Donna
