Merging 2 Outlook mail files

[Kinky]

The home PC literally blew itself last week end, and I've spent all week gettting it back up and running again (Win XP Pro, Office 2003, etc, etc).

Anyhow - fortunately I have an up-to-date physical copy of all the data off the machine.

So I rebuild it, re-install it everything, and then I come to Outlook.

I copied the mail data files into the correct directory, in the hope that Outlook would recognise them and basically continue where we left off. But no.

The bottom line ..... I now have outlook running perfectly well, but with a new mailfile.

Does anyone know how I can get my mail from my old file into the new one? I spent ages last night trying everything I could think of - but to no avail - hence this posting.

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

I've also searched the web - and not found anything of use or help.

Many thanks in advance,

K

[BliarOut]

Outlook or Outlook Express? The procedure is different.

[Kinky]

Sorry - should have clarified - It's Outlook 2003 (the real version) - not express - the cut-down version.

K

[BliarOut]

Just find your old .PST file and use File > import/export and import it into the new one.

You can also use tools > options > data files and find it that way. I might be off a little off on the menu commands as I haven't got 2K3 in front of me, but you should be able to figure out what I'm blathering on about

[Kinky]

Thanks BliarOut, I'll try that tonight, but I have to confess I'm pretty sure I did that last night.

Unfortunately the machine is at home - so can't try it until then - but I did try the File Open, Import, etc, etc, and it was not having it at al.

But I'll give it another go in case I was doing something daft.

Thanks again,

K

[BliarOut]

Check the size of the PST. And if it's on a CD, copy it off and make sure it's not flagged read only!

Chances are Outlook helpfully overwrote it for you so you'll need to import again.

[GregE240]

Kinky said:

Thanks BliarOut, I'll try that tonight, but I have to confess I'm pretty sure I did that last night. Unfortunately the machine is at home - so can't try it until then - but I did try the File Open, Import, etc, etc, and it was not having it at al. But I'll give it another go in case I was doing something daft. Thanks again, K

Mark, you need to do:

File, Import and Export, Import from another program or file, select "Personal folder file (pst), select your PST file, then "Do not import duplicates"

Thats from OL2003.

HTH,
Greg

[meeja]

BliarOut said:

If it's on a CD, copy it off and make sure it's not flagged read only!

Good call.

Been caught out by that before!

[BliarOut]

meeja said:

BliarOut said: If it's on a CD, copy it off and make sure it's not flagged read only! Good call. Been caught out by that before!

[Kinky]

COOL ..... looks like the solution is there somewhere.

I'll try the above tonight.

The file is stored on a 20gig USB drive, so read/write access is not a problem .....

... I hope.

Many thanks again. Will update tonight.

K

[Kinky]

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