How to recover outlook.pst and addressbook in outlook 2000 after I re-install. "John S. Sapyta." <jsapyta[ at ]cox.net> 12.09.2006 03:23:12 Hey, I had problem with a XP system that I have, and had to re-install it on top of itself, and when I did, it goofed up all my office 2000 programs and I had trouble installing it till I got a Windows clean-up ultity and had to remove office and reinstall it. Now here's the problem. When I re-ran outlook 2000, it forgot all my e-mail settings and forgot where the outlook.pst was, so I had to re-enter the info, and now when I got into outlook the inbox was blank, and so I thought I would do a file -> import of the outlook.pst that I had used before, but when I did that it created it another set of folders above, like inbox, and sent box, etc.. So my question is, what's the best way to make current or old .pst the MAIN ..pst where all the new e-mail will arrive in, and also what's the best way re-enter mail after a re-install?

Re: How to recover outlook.pst and addressbook in outlook 2000 after I re-install. "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" <hhh[ at ]kvoa.com> 12.09.2006 05:06:58 It's a lot safer to NOT use the Import function, it often causes profile corruption: http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx Reconnect your old Outlook data file Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh[ at ]kvoa.com Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "John S. Sapyta." <jsapyta[ at ]cox.net> wrote in message news:xKpNg.3753$8J2.612[ at ]fed1read11... [Quoted Text] > Hey, > > I had problem with a XP system that I have, and had to re-install it on > top of itself, and when I did, it goofed up all my office 2000 programs > and I had trouble installing it till I got a Windows clean-up ultity and > had to remove office and reinstall it. Now here's the problem. When I > re-ran outlook 2000, it forgot all my e-mail settings and forgot where the > outlook.pst was, so I had to re-enter the info, and now when I got into > outlook the inbox was blank, and so I thought I would do a file -> import > of the outlook.pst that I had used before, but when I did that it created > it another set of folders above, like inbox, > and sent box, etc.. > > So my question is, what's the best way to make current or old .pst the > MAIN .pst where all the new e-mail will arrive in, and also what's the > best way re-enter mail after a re-install? > > >