NEED HELP SOON: Win7 Files & Settings Transfer Wiz & Office Outlook PST Mailboxes

[Leythos]

You wanted proof and Peter gave it to you. If you can wait, I am sure
that more Outlook experts will correct you as well. You hurling insults
towards me and Ubuntu does nothing for your credibility except to reveal
how desperate you are to be right.

If you were to have actually done this, as we can tell that Peter has
NOT done this, you would know that Export and Import work fine and
without corruption across the different versions of outlook.

 

[Leythos]

Importing does not keep using the exported PST file copied from the
old computer - it just imports the data into the new installation.

(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

Having done thousands of moves to different versions of outlook, I have
never experienced a "Profile" corruption in Outlook, never lost a
contact, email, task, or calendar item.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported

it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.

This is the perfect scenario for Importing.

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[Leythos]

This is the perfect scenario for Importing.

Yep, been that way for years, since outlook first became a main-stream
office email application.

What I though funny was that a customer was still using office 97 on a
computer, actively.... They are in for a rude surprise when they see
Office 2007's completely different menu's and massive waste of space in
the menu's.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Not sure I'd describe it as "funny"... but yes, they will be in for a shock.

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[Leythos]

Not sure I'd describe it as "funny"... but yes, they will be in for a shock.

Yea, I was being slightly sarcastic.

Do you know that your sig violates Usenet standards of 4-5 lines?

 

[Char Jackson]

I guess that's why I've done it that way multiple times, for a family
member who actually uses Outlook for God knows what reason, and has
changed computers multiple times, and it didn't "corrupt" anything.
And I guess you enjoy using a product that you claim "corrupts" files
for absolutely no good reason. Two for two on Microsoft Office
lameness.

FWIW, I've used the method described by Alias about 2-3 dozen times
over the past 10 years and recommend it. It makes no sense to me to
Export and Import when easier methods exist.

 

[Peter Foldes]

How well will the *Win7* [Files and Settings Transfer Wizard] work

from a WinXP with Outlook 2000 to Win7 with Outlook 2007?

OL 2000 to OL2007 pst

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved importing the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?


--
Peter

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Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported
it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.

This is the perfect scenario for Importing.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=39473

No, he's not correct and it will not corrupt the files.

Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported
it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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[Leythos]

How well will the *Win7* [Files and Settings Transfer Wizard] work
from a WinXP with Outlook 2000 to Win7 with Outlook 2007?

OL 2000 to OL2007 pst

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved importing the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?

Why ask, why not try it yourself instead of making comments that you've
not tested yourself Pete?

I have to do this all the time, even the export from Exchange, using the
utilities can be imported into O2007.

I just did Outlook 97 to Outlook 2007 yesterday.

If you didn't know this, why did you bother commenting like you were an
authority on it?

 

[Joel]

Ask your friend what dates ALL of his emails are set to now. Then ask he
or she if he or she is happy with that.

Why would I need to ask, when I saw the results myself?

Oh, and your ploy failed, so why are you still pretending otherwise?
You just made a complete a-- of yourself - oh, that's right, you're
just an anonymous coward going by the nym "Alias". What's the dif'.
Maybe I shouldn't post under my real name, except I'm not a troll, so
I like to ...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved
importing the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?

I've never seen importing a PST into another PST corrupt either PST. I have
seen ghost folders in the profile or other problems that were fixed with a new
profile, but the PSTs themselves are fine. DLs don't import well and
contact-calendar linkage may need recreating.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I'll never say "never" when it comes to Outlook, but no, importing a pst
created in 2000 to a 2007 pst will not corrupt the pst, except in rare cases
where there are already problems. It might corrupt the profile - this has
reportedly happened - but in many cases, I think the profile was already in
trouble.

What is worse for profiles is a favored method of reconnecting pst a few
years ago - create a profile, get the old pst and paste it over the new pst.
To avoid problems, connect it to the profile in Control panel, Mail. Same
goes for moving psts - move the pst then point the profile to the pst before
opening outlook. Don't wait for Outlook to ask where it is.


--
<sig removed for leythos>

How well will the *Win7* [Files and Settings Transfer Wizard] work
from a WinXP with Outlook 2000 to Win7 with Outlook 2007?

OL 2000 to OL2007 pst

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved
importing the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?

 

[Joel]

Note, my recommendation had to do with Outlook 2000 to 2007. Had the
case been that one was moving the same type of .pst file, I would do it
a different way.

I thought you were gonna defer to the MVPs. Funny how that turns into
contradicting them, when they contradict you. Your nonexistent nym
sure lets you play games, doesn't it.

 

[Leythos]

Why would I need to ask, when I saw the results myself?

Oh, and your ploy failed, so why are you still pretending otherwise?
You just made a complete a-- of yourself - oh, that's right, you're
just an anonymous coward going by the nym "Alias". What's the dif'.
Maybe I shouldn't post under my real name, except I'm not a troll, so
I like to ...

Alias did this same thing with Vista, commenting on it before he had
even installed it, making wild claims about it, all without even having
tried it - which he busted himself for a couple times.

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

<snip>

Nice Kite pics!!

 

[Joel]

I thought we were talking about Outlook.

Snip bullshit

When I acknowledged that weed is safer than booze, you will note that
I said "to a mature person". Obviously, when "snip bullshit" == "snip
the relevant part of the post where Alias' stupidity is shown", and
you make some totally lame comeback about how he said "Windows", you
need to cool it with the THC.

You may be older, but you ain't wiser.

 

[Joel]

Alias did this same thing with Vista, commenting on it before he had
even installed it, making wild claims about it, all without even having
tried it - which he busted himself for a couple times.

Quite the winner, he is, it seems.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Leythos

But I did. When I was working the 2003 Beta I tried importing from my OL2000 and it
became corrupted along with the profile. I am basing my answer on that .

--
Peter

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How well will the *Win7* [Files and Settings Transfer Wizard] work
from a WinXP with Outlook 2000 to Win7 with Outlook 2007?

OL 2000 to OL2007 pst

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved importing
the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?

Why ask, why not try it yourself instead of making comments that you've
not tested yourself Pete?

I have to do this all the time, even the export from Exchange, using the
utilities can be imported into O2007.

I just did Outlook 97 to Outlook 2007 yesterday.

If you didn't know this, why did you bother commenting like you were an
authority on it?

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
(e-mail address removed) (remove 999 for proper email address)

 

[Peter Foldes]

Brian and Diane

Thanks for both your inputs. But as I posted to Leythos I was basing my answer on
that posted scenario

--
Peter

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I'll never say "never" when it comes to Outlook, but no, importing a pst created
in 2000 to a 2007 pst will not corrupt the pst, except in rare cases where there
are already problems. It might corrupt the profile - this has reportedly
happened - but in many cases, I think the profile was already in trouble.

What is worse for profiles is a favored method of reconnecting pst a few years
ago - create a profile, get the old pst and paste it over the new pst. To avoid
problems, connect it to the profile in Control panel, Mail. Same goes for moving
psts - move the pst then point the profile to the pst before opening outlook.
Don't wait for Outlook to ask where it is.


--
<sig removed for leythos>

How well will the *Win7* [Files and Settings Transfer Wizard] work
from a WinXP with Outlook 2000 to Win7 with Outlook 2007?

OL 2000 to OL2007 pst

Just curious Diane. Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2007 when files are saved importing
the
OL 2000 saved files to OL 2007 will not corrupt and will work ?

 

[Leythos]

But I did. When I was working the 2003 Beta I tried importing from my OL2000 and it
became corrupted along with the profile. I am basing my answer on that .

BETA, you've got to be kidding - why would you base your reply on BETA
software, that's something I would expect from Alias, not you.