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Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 1042 Location: South Bend, Indiana USA
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:01 am Post subject: Moving Outlook from one PC to antother |
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Posted here countless times: Windows Easy Transfer does not work with Outlook and should not be attemtped. Recreate your accounts from scratch and use supported methods for transferring data instead:
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all the mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.
Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/move_outlook.asp
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx
Note that some of the information on the Microsoft page is outdated and contains errors, particularly when applied to Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010.
Specifically:
1. Ignore any advice to copy your PST file to Outlook's default location to connect it to your profile. Doing so will often corrupt your Outlook profile. Copy it anywhere BUT the default location and then open it within your Outlook profile.
2. Ignore any advice that tells you to use export or import to transfer an entire Outlook data file. That has never been sound advice, but the process has become too deeply flawed to be trusted.
Also, Outlook 2010 has a nice new option that lets you connect to a pre-existing data file when creating a new profile instead of having to jump through all the hoops of creating a new file, connecting to the pre-existing file, then disconnecting the new file.
Source: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/config/moving-outlook-to-a-new-computer#old |
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