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Comment from graham carter on 2009-01-08

2009-01-08T15:17:56Z

Thanks Leo. Very informative. However, I want to transfer emails and contacts from my old XP machine running Office Outlook 2003 to my new pc running Vista and want to use Windows Live Mail. How do I do this?

I don't know of a path to transfer data from Microsoft Office Outlook to Windows Live Mail. That's considered a "downgrade", and I know of no way to do it.

- Leo
08-Jan-2009

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Comment from kamlesh on 2008-11-07

2008-11-07T11:40:40Z

if I am using isp. I don't have exchange server to access the outlook mail then how will i get my address book.

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Comment from Jerry Calio on 2008-10-21

2008-10-22T01:27:27Z

Leo:

I was using Outlook 2003 and have upgraded to Office 2007 PRO. I exported my messages and contacts from my personal folders in my OUTLOOK 2003 to a PST file. I deinstalled Outlook 2003 then completed the installation of Office 2007 with Outlook 2007.

I wanted to create a personal folder in Outlook 2007 - NOT - load all of my personal messages onto my company Exchange server.

It appears that I did just that.

So I know I can delete the folders that were imported easily enough, but before doing so I want to import the old Outlook2003.PST into Outlook Express but can't seem to find an option in the IMPORT utility to allow me to choose the old PST file I had exported earlier.

What am I doing wrong?

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Comment from Jim Stiber on 2008-09-10

2008-09-10T14:02:37Z

I have already used Outlook for a week. How can I move the stuff from my old computer without losing the messages on the new computer?

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Comment from Lisa on 2008-06-19

2008-06-19T20:48:32Z

Leo - your instructions are very helpful... but I still can't access some of my email. Here's my situation:

I had to temporarily set up my email account on a second PC. When I did so, all of the messages in my Inbox moved over to the second PC. Now that I've got Outlook up and running again on my original PC, I'd like to move the original Inbox messages back to the original PC.

I've created a .pst (off of the 2nd PC) and saved it in the same folder as my other .pst on the original PC. How do I get Outlook to reflect the files in that .pst? Note that because this email account is enabled on both PCs, I'm currently receiving messages on both, but I can't get the old messages (from my Inbox) to move back to the original... and until I do, I'm hesitant to remove the account from the second PC.

Thank you for your help! Your directions on creating and moving psts were great.

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Comment from Theresa on 2008-04-29

2008-04-29T19:08:34Z

we have several computers with the same email address and of course, the "Leave a copy of messages on the server" is checked.The main computer is set to have them removed from the server after 10 days. I am trying to move all of my email from one computer to another. i have set up the new computer with the same address and it has already downloaded the email that the server was holding. Should i delete all of the email from the new computer before i transfer the mail from the old one? Is there a setting that i should be aware of before I transfer so that it does not reload and duplicate the newly transferred mail? i would like to use the "old" machine again for email and using the same email address, is it possible?

thank you for your time...

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Comment from Scott Stilley on 2008-04-18

2008-04-18T18:37:50Z

How do you create a brand new default PST File
I have a corruped PST file. It opens and I can send mail, but it crashes every once in a while.
I cannot back it up unless I am in safe mode (it will not let me change it as my default mail...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For Richard Phariss question regarding address book sync.... Yahoo Sync has a great option to keep address books updated. It works great. I have my work pc and home pc always synced, with all the address. change anyone computer and it syncs. then i use Yahoo go on my BB and have the into there also. always up to date.

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Comment from David Armendariz on 2008-03-30

2008-03-30T14:15:17Z

When you copy the .pst file to tne new computer it sounds like the contacts and calendar, etc all come over. Is there any way to copy only the email? I have already cleaned up the contacts and calendar on the new computer and just need the email. Thanks

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Comment from Mike on 2008-01-28

2008-01-29T07:56:25Z

Thanks! This was very helpful. It worked beautifully, and was easy to understand.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-22

2007-10-22T18:07:32Z

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I'm not aware of any way to do that in an automated fashion.

Sorry.

Leo

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Comment from Richard Phariss on 2007-10-20

2007-10-20T13:47:40Z

After reading all of the Microsoft Outlook articles, there is still one task I would like to do and I cannot find any reference to it: My wife and I have separate computers with "almost identical" contact lists. She would like me to make them absolutely identical. Is there any way to synchronize our contact lists so that I only have to maintain one list (I sometimes forget to update both). Thanks for the help.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T21:10:27Z

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I'm not aware of any solution. Sorry.

Leo

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Comment from fons on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T13:24:43Z

And how do I move my outlook 2003 pst files to my macbook's mail program without losing the folder structure, attachments, etc.
I tried many options I found online, but none work well...

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