Help, new build, can't find my mail on old drive

[fng01]

I just finished my latest build. I am using Office 2010. I use outlook and excel. I loaded a fresh install of win7, upgraded from XP. I have not been able to find the files for my old mail and spreadsheets to move over to the new install. Can someone tell me how I can do this so when I open outlook or Excel all my saved files and old mail is where it should be. Thanks.

 

[xSauronx]

usually in xp outlook mail is in

c: \documents and settings\%username%\local data\microsoft\outlook\something.pst

you want to find the pst file and point your outlook account at it, control panel > mail > profiles > data files or something like that. off the top of my head and all...

as for your old spreadsheets, no clue. you cant really upgrade from xp, i thought...so you may have no nothing to restore, pretty sure windows 7 just blows away the old install but someone can correct me if im wrong, ive never actually bothered to even try an xp > 7 upgrade. i thin you can do xp > vista > 7 but i could be mistaken on that, too

 

[fng01]

sorry, I didnt mean to say I upgraded. I bought an OEM win7 and installed it on my new SSD. I also installed office 2010 on the SSD. I am trying to get the old mail files from the old drive to connect with the new install. I'll look at where you pointed me.
Thanks

 

[abaez]

What Sauron said is exactly what you have to do. Mail files are stored in a pst and you have to tell Outlook to look at the PST to get your mail.

 

[fng01]

Thank you everyone. I did a search for pst files and found them. figured out how to move and replace the current one in my new install and its all there now...thanks so very much

 

[fng01]

Oh boy, now I can not send or recieve. I must have done something bad when I moved the .PST file.

Task " I blanked out my email from here" - Receiving' reported error (0x8004010F) : 'Outlook data file cannot be accessed.'
Task " I blanked it out from here too" - Sending' reported error (0x8004010F) : 'Outlook data file cannot be accessed.'

Does anyone know what I may have done?

 

[lxskllr]

Permission problem?

 

[fng01]

OK so I removed the pst file that has all my mail from my old install and put the one that was originaly created when I installed office back in. I can now send and recieve.

So why wont it work with the old .pst file from my previous install?

 

[lxskllr]

Using your new setup, can you import the old mail?

 

[fng01]

dont know how is that in option under the menu...i'll look

 

[lxskllr]

dont know how is that in option under the menu...i'll look

Dunno, I don't use Outlook. That would a surprising oversight if they don't have it. Importing mail is a useful tool.

 

[fng01]

I found it. I have been able to get my appointments, but still not my mail. I may have moved it around so much trying to do it manually I may have screwed it up. Thanks, I'll keep working it. At least I am getting a little closer. lol