Hi Jemthy-
I created pst files so I could export my folders and subfolders from one laptop running Windows 2000 to another laptop running XP; but the file size (32K) tells me that something went wrong. How can I be sure that the pst files I create actually contain all of my uncorrupted emails? How do I then transfer them over to the second laptop and populate Outlook with those email folders and their contents?
Thanks,
Sandye
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All your mail, your contacts, your calendars, and almost every other detail of your life is in Outlook.
To make sure you don't lose all this in case of a hard disk crash or
some other disaster, you can create backup copies of your Personal Folders (.pst) files — that's where Outlook stores all the essential data.
Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data
To create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying:
Restore from Your Outlook Backup
Your backup copy of Outlook data is now in place, ready to be restored when you need it.
Restore Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data from a Backup
To restore your mail, contacts and other data from a backup copy of an Outlook PST file:
Usually, the default import settings work fine, but you may want to tweak them to suit your needs.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010875321033.aspx
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Your first thing to do is to check first the integrity of the pst file to make it sure that the all e-mail there is good in not corrupted. Follows this following steps:
1. Click START, SEARCH then click ALL FILES AND FOLDERS in the first space type SCANPST in the look in select the drive where the windows is installed and click search.
2. After the SCANPST found or display double click the SCANPST then enter the name of your created pst files then click start. The SCANPST run in check your pst files for the corrupted e-mail and fix its.
3. After the SCANPST finished checking the files, the best way to transfer the pst files is to copy the whole file to the directory of the outlook. Because if you using import you need to import one by one for example you import first the inbox then the sent items unlike if you copy the whole pst file when you run the new outlook they install automatically all of your e-mail at the same your old e-mail configuration.
4. Here how to copy the whole pst files to oher new computer outlook. First you need to unhide the hidden files like outlook.pst file. Click the MYCOMPUTER ,TOOLS,FOLDER OPTION,VIEW then select SHOW THE HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS and click OK.
5. After that double click the drive C: where the window or the outlook installed then click the DOCUMENT AND SETTING and select the USER that you use then click LOCAL SETTING, APPLICATION DATA, MICROSOFT then OUTLOOK you can see now the OUTLOOK PST file. Copy the OUTLOOK pst file to the directory of the new outlook in the other computer. If the OUTLOOK PST file is already created in the new outlook just rename it to OUTLOOKOLD so that when the outlook is open or running the new OUTLOOK pst file is the one that reading or recognize by the outlook. If the PST file that your transfer or copy is good the e-mail in your old computer outlook is the same also to your new outlook .
I hope that i give you the solution of your problem
God Bless.....
Jemuel
hello,
Open the outlook to your new laptop then click import then select your created pst files. If the import is finished without error display it means that the pst files is ok or not corrupted but if the import not successful try to run scanpst file to fix the corrupted pst files that you created.
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