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Importing Data from Backup
"lgoler" <lance.goler[ at ]gmail.com> 27.09.2006 13:50:28
I'm trying to bring in my contacts and calendar from my old computer to
my new one, and have copied the data into a file and put in on cd. The
file is an Outlook Data File as confirmed by Explorer. When I copy the
file into the Local Settings-->Microsoft-->Outlook folder, it appears
there as having the same file size. But when I try to open it within
Outlook, either through the import function, or simply file-->Open Data
File, nothing happens, and it simply creates a new personal folder with
nothing in it. I know that it copied the data because I watched while
it said copying "calendar" and "contacts". Am I doing something wrong?

Microsoft XP
Outlook 2003
Re: Importing Data from Backup
"Calvin Luttrell from Projecthunder" <Calvin[ at ]NOSPAM.projectthunder.com> 27.09.2006 14:39:52
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I would look for the largest *.PST file on your old computer and then =
make sure you copied the correct one. Also when you bring that file off =
the CD most likely it may be "read only" I have no idea how outlook =
would react to that. Right click on the file and double check the read =
only attribute which should be unchecked.=20


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> my new one, and have copied the data into a file and put in on cd. =
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> file is an Outlook Data File as confirmed by Explorer. When I copy =
the
> file into the Local Settings-->Microsoft-->Outlook folder, it appears
> there as having the same file size. But when I try to open it within
> Outlook, either through the import function, or simply file-->Open =
Data
> File, nothing happens, and it simply creates a new personal folder =
with
> nothing in it. I know that it copied the data because I watched while
> it said copying "calendar" and "contacts". Am I doing something =
wrong?
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> Outlook 2003
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Re: Importing Data from Backup
"Brian Tillman" <tillman1952[ at ]yahoo.com> 27.09.2006 15:29:18
lgoler <lance.goler[ at ]gmail.com> wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> I'm trying to bring in my contacts and calendar from my old computer
> to my new one, and have copied the data into a file and put in on cd.
> The file is an Outlook Data File as confirmed by Explorer. When I
> copy the file into the Local Settings-->Microsoft-->Outlook folder,
> it appears there as having the same file size. But when I try to
> open it within Outlook, either through the import function, or simply
> file-->Open Data File, nothing happens, and it simply creates a new
> personal folder with nothing in it.

Did you copy it back to your hard drive from the CD and remove the read-only
attribute?

> I know that it copied the data
> because I watched while it said copying "calendar" and "contacts".
> Am I doing something wrong?

No correct method of backing up and restoring a PST ever shows those
messages. Describe exactly how your "backed up" and "restored" the PST.
--
Brian Tillman

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