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Sunfire
I have read extensivley on this message board, but can't not find the answer
to this question. I know the MVP people do this everyday, but some of us need
a little further explaining as we are not as savy.
Question: I am going to copy my Outlook.pst file and burn it to CD so that I
can load a newer version of Office on my computer. The current version I
have is courpt. I keep getting the "unable to load personal free/busy" data
message and running scanexe.pst doesn't work at all. I bought this computer
off of someone else so I don't have the orginal disks.
I need to perserve my many e-mail lists. I try exporting to a csv file, but
the e-mail addresses are missing.
So I am resporting to loading Office 2003 and trying to get rid of the
Office 2000 on the machine presently.
What I need to know:
-When I do a search for .pst files - I get 2 backup files, one archive, one
Outlook, and one Outlook Hotmail. Which one do I save?
-How do I make sure that I don't save them as a "read-only" file as the MVPs
keep warning?
-Will backing this up and re-loading it make sure that I won't lose my
contacts and precious e-mail lists?
-When I reload this - where do I put the files to make this work?
What I have:
Office 2000
Windows XP
Also important to note that I have Avidian Prophet- a contact managemtn
software that merges itself into Outlook. A lot better than ACT! I have the
assistance to move this over, but just want to mention this.
Ok - MVP and Outlook gurus - give thsi your best shot!
to this question. I know the MVP people do this everyday, but some of us need
a little further explaining as we are not as savy.
Question: I am going to copy my Outlook.pst file and burn it to CD so that I
can load a newer version of Office on my computer. The current version I
have is courpt. I keep getting the "unable to load personal free/busy" data
message and running scanexe.pst doesn't work at all. I bought this computer
off of someone else so I don't have the orginal disks.
I need to perserve my many e-mail lists. I try exporting to a csv file, but
the e-mail addresses are missing.
So I am resporting to loading Office 2003 and trying to get rid of the
Office 2000 on the machine presently.
What I need to know:
-When I do a search for .pst files - I get 2 backup files, one archive, one
Outlook, and one Outlook Hotmail. Which one do I save?
-How do I make sure that I don't save them as a "read-only" file as the MVPs
keep warning?
-Will backing this up and re-loading it make sure that I won't lose my
contacts and precious e-mail lists?
-When I reload this - where do I put the files to make this work?
What I have:
Office 2000
Windows XP
Also important to note that I have Avidian Prophet- a contact managemtn
software that merges itself into Outlook. A lot better than ACT! I have the
assistance to move this over, but just want to mention this.
Ok - MVP and Outlook gurus - give thsi your best shot!