Calendar Categories and Colours lost after back up

[Victor Papa]

Hi,

I've looked back through the threads on this group but can't find the
problem I have.

My hard disk was starting to fail so I backed up Outlook 2007. After
reinstalling it on the new HD, all my calendar entries are there but the
categories and colours are not. Is there any way to restore these other than
entering the categories and colours manually? (I still have the original HD
with OL2007 and it's still bootable should I need to go back to export
again).

Thanks,

Victor

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

The *.pst file itself contains the master category list and the colors (if
you were not connected to an Exchange server). If you still have the old
file, copy if to the new HD and use it.

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Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

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Am Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:17:56 +0100 schrieb Victor Papa:

 

[Victor Papa]

Many thanks Michael. I did what you suggest and it worked. Even better, all
the rules I'd exported and didn't work ('Error in Rules' "Cannot move to *
folder") now work too. Only slight hitch was that mails I'd received today
were missing so I had to undo the swap and export the current Inbox then
import it once the old Outlook.pst file had been moved in again.

What puzzles me is why the calendar categories and colours weren't backed up
when I backed up my old Outlook.pst file. Do you know?

Sorted now anyway - kind regards,

Victor

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Exporting doesn't include hidden files, views and other things.

IN the future or for others who might find this thread - file, open, outlook
data file is easier - open the pst the new mail is in and move it to the old
pst, then file, close to get rid of it.


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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