Upgraded Outllook 2000 to 2003 and am losing my mind... ;)

[Darwin]

Hi,

I upgraded my Office installation yesterday and unfortunately pasted my pst
files into the Outllook folder before I opened Outlook. I've fixed most
issues but two remain:
1. All my conacts are gone
2 (More serious for me) the archive folder and another (duplicated) folder
are completely inaccessible. I get messages stating that the folders cannot
be opened if I try to open them. On the duplicate folder (duplicate of an
IMAP account folder) I get the same message if I try to close via the context
menu. On my archive folder attempting to close if via the context menu
results in the office assistant advising me to create a new default profile.
I've tried this with no luck. The archive pst file is 27MB. I cannot identify
where the duplicate IMAP folder comes from (but it is driving me crazy!).

I'm about ready to completely ditch my Outlook installation and start again.
Is this my only option?

Thank you,

Mike

 

[Mary]

Pasting the file into your new Outlook was your mistake. It corrupted the
file. What you should have done was to copy the pst folder to the new
computer in a separate folder and open it from within Outlook, using File,
Open, Data File. Do not use Import. Try file, open again to see if you can
fix it without a reinstall. Use the same method to try and open the archived
file. If you still have the original files, it might be easier to uninstall
and start all over again. This might
help--http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[Illuminatrix Templar]

Further to reply, basically the new outlook is crap and buggy. Tie this in
with the Security Problems and you have a useless, dangerous piece of
software. Use at your peril!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Ah, please share with us the vast innumerable items that constitute crap and
what bugs you have found, oh illuminated one. Outlook useless, a security
risk, and dangerous?

Only to those who are well lit (I prefer the term toasted, myself.)

--
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, Illuminatrix Templar asked:

| Further to reply, basically the new outlook is crap and buggy. Tie
| this in with the Security Problems and you have a useless, dangerous
| piece of software. Use at your peril!
| || Pasting the file into your new Outlook was your mistake. It
|| corrupted the file. What you should have done was to copy the pst
|| folder to the new computer in a separate folder and open it from
|| within Outlook, using File, Open, Data File. Do not use Import. Try
|| file, open again to see if you can fix it without a reinstall. Use
|| the same method to try and open the archived
|| file. If you still have the original files, it might be easier to
|| uninstall
|| and start all over again. This might
|| help--http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
||
|| "Darwin" wrote:
||
||| Hi,
|||
||| I upgraded my Office installation yesterday and unfortunately
||| pasted my pst
||| files into the Outllook folder before I opened Outlook. I've fixed
||| most issues but two remain:
||| 1. All my conacts are gone
||| 2 (More serious for me) the archive folder and another (duplicated)
||| folder
||| are completely inaccessible. I get messages stating that the folders
||| cannot
||| be opened if I try to open them. On the duplicate folder (duplicate
||| of an IMAP account folder) I get the same message if I try to close
||| via the context
||| menu. On my archive folder attempting to close if via the context
||| menu results in the office assistant advising me to create a new
||| default profile.
||| I've tried this with no luck. The archive pst file is 27MB. I cannot
||| identify
||| where the duplicate IMAP folder comes from (but it is driving me
||| crazy!).
|||
||| I'm about ready to completely ditch my Outlook installation and
||| start again.
||| Is this my only option?
|||
||| Thank you,
|||
||| Mike

 

[Darwin]

Hi all,

Thank you for your replies. Over the last several hours I've reverted to a
month old drive image and re-run my Office 2003 upgrade. Unfortunately, I'm
an idiot... I neglected, in my haste and enthusiasm, to export my address
book before performing the upgrade. I don't understand WHY Outlook 2003 when
upgrading from 2000 doesn't migrate ALL user settings. My rules were migrated
but none of my messages, none of my contacts, and none of my folders.
Irritatingly, the original problem that I reported re: inaccessible folders
(archive and a duplicate of an IMAP folder) was obviously created when the
software upgraded itself, because it's back!

I've opened my Outlook data file and copied my original folder structure and
messages into my new personal folders, my original rules now work, as do my
e-mail accounts. Anyone have any further thoughts on the inaccessible
folders? I'm going to try deleting the IMAP account and see if that does
anything for me, but I've still got the dratted archives folder to figure out.

Thanks,

Mike