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Ily
Citizen
Username: Ily
Post Number: 214
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 7:01 am: |     |
I recently had a motherboard meltdown and got a new PC. Is there a way to get my old Outlook address book off of the old hard drive? I already have the old hard drive hooked up via an enclosure.
I've tried Outlook help and googling a few things, but so far, nothing works. |
Noglider
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 9354
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 8:49 am: | |
Doesn't Outlook have some sort of import function? |
Noglider
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 9355
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 8:51 am: | |
If you use Outlook only for mail, I recommend you try Mozilla Thunderbird, which I use. It's a very good mailer, but it's only a mailer, i.e. not a calendar or anything else. It does have an address book but maybe not as fancy as Outlook's.
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Ily
Citizen
Username: Ily
Post Number: 215
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 11:41 am: | |
Thanks Noglider. I tried the import function, but I get no addresses from it. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6269
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 5:06 pm: | |
Can you open the version of Outlook on your old hard drive at all?
If so you can click on contacts and copy the contact listing into a blank word document. Then, if you can open the contact cards for persons for whom you want information not showing on the contacts screen and repeat the process for each.
Save the word document to your new hard drive and then use the cut and paste procedure to create new contact cards in the new version of Outlook and copy in information as needed.
This may be a somewhat cumbersome way of doing it but the information should be transferable using this method and the cumbersomeness will force you to consider which contacts you really want to keep in your address book.
If you find a better way, please let me know. I will be facing the same problem if/when I can get my son to come over and install my crashed hard drive in my CPU tower so I can try and transfer data.
Good luck. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 11:09 pm: | |
Ily,
Joan is heading in the right direction. Outlook uses a .pst file to store everything - email, addreses, calendar entries, etc.
If your new computer has Outlook on it, you should be able to open the PST file and copy whatever you want to a new PST file. I don't use Outlook anymore, but I believe one of the options on the File menu is to open a PST... |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6271
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 6:37 am: | |
Rastro:
I just checked the help file in Outlook and I couldn't find any command or instruction for opening a .pst file (only a .ppt file, which I gather is not the same thing).
Can this file be located and openned in some other way?
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Network & PC Care
Citizen
Username: Npccare
Post Number: 77
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 7:33 am: | |
Joan, It should be under import.
Try this.
File | Import | file or personal folders
Locate your old .pst file.
If that doesn't work, you can copy the old .pst file to the location where the new one was created, and rename the current one, then rename the old one exactly what the newer file was named.
Outlook will then use the older file when it opens. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6272
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 7:35 am: | |
I think I found how to import the old address book to the new drive once you can access it but I am still unclear on how to locate the old address book so it can be moved since properties defines .pst files as e-mail, tasks, notes, etc. but not as address book entries.
For Windows XP Professional:
1. Right click on Outlook icon.
2. Select properties
3. Select e-mail accounts
4. Follow instructions in the Wizard.
This will enable you to add, eliminate or change address books in Outlook and should enable you to rename your old address book so it won't erase any new address book you may have created on your new hard drive. |
Gatica
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 106
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 11:02 pm: | |
Use Windows Explorer to do a search for *.pst on the old hard disk. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1487
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 1:50 pm: | |
A bit late, but I found this in an old copy of PC World...
http://find.pcworld.com/47535 |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 2623
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:14 pm: | |
I just did this the other day when I accidentally deleted my contacts. I opened a backup version of my Outlook.pst file and then simply copied the contacts over.
You can open a pst file by right clicking on the Mailbox folder in the folder view. It is usually labeled "Outlook Today", but this may vary. When you right-click, one of the options is "Open Personal Folders File (.pst)" If you select that you can then browse to the old Outlook.pst and open it. This is also useful if you make archives (which are just additional .pst files.) You can then keep the archive files open in your folder list and move messages (or other items) between the archive and the regular file with your mouse.
More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.
Post back or PL me if this is confusing or you have other questions. |
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