Restoring Outlook Folders from ME to 2K Pro

[airdale]

Having had about enough of WinME and its power management problems (how many times do you press the Reset Button in one day?), I have decided to go with Windows 2000 Professional.

I do not want to lose my *pst folders and files for Outlook 2000, and I wonder if anyone knows if there will be any kind of file incompatibility if I restore the Application Data folder from WinME to Win2K by tape?

Or perhaps somebody knows of a better way to get the data from My Docs and App Data from WinME to Win2k?

Thanks.

 

[Heifetz]

There is a backup tool for outlook released by Microsoft. Go to the outlook page online and it should be there under folders backup or something. It works quite well, because it lets you backup everything as a single file. You can put that file somewhere safe...and once you format and reinstall, you can open the file and restore everything in outlook.


Heifetz

 

[airdale]

Thank you, Heifitz.

If you are referring to the "Save My Settings" thing, I hope that works for somebody for it has never worked for me. Never seem able to get onto their server.

I think I can back up the windows\application data\microsoft\ folder and I hope it will not be incompatible with win2Kpro.

 

[huggis]

Why don´t you just export the *.pst file and choose what folders to keep (mail, contacts. e.t.c.)? There is an import/export wizard that lets you to do this. No problems to import it back later on under w2k. You´ll find it under "file->import/export".

 

[airdale]

Does that file include the accounts & connection settings?

 

[huggis]

No it doesn´t contain that info 🙁 But that shouldn´t be any problems since you can export that to! Open up your account manager Tools->accounts an choose the e-mail tab, from there click export, choose your connection and save it. It will create a file with the .iaf extension (InternetAdressFile)

 

[airdale]

😀 Ahh, I see, said the blind man.