Can't import Outlook Calander into 2007 correctly

[anthonyjstewart]

I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently on both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
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[anthonyjstewart]

From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop into outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and outlook 2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing up the all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing up the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[anthonyjstewart]

Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will double check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why only a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field mapping shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in outlook they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook 2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something we did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing up the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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message I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time zone is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why only a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in outlook they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook 2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something we did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

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From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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message I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[anthonyjstewart]

My time zone and clock information are identical. I will ask him to export
the calendar in the way you described below to see if this makes a difference
although I can't say that it should. It would be interesting to see if
outlook 2003 will import the data although I am using 2007 and it imports
fine using our original method.

Thanks

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time zone is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why only a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in outlook they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook 2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something we did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

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message From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
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your
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message I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Repeating: you do not use export or import to transfer Outlook data. Use the
procedure that was recommended. Note that you will have to use a view of the
Calendar that actually shows your appointments in list fashion, such as By
Category.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My time zone and clock information are identical. I will ask him to
export
the calendar in the way you described below to see if this makes a
difference
although I can't say that it should. It would be interesting to see if
outlook 2003 will import the data although I am using 2007 and it imports
fine using our original method.

Thanks

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use
Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time zone
is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why only
a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in outlook
they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook
2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something we
did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

:

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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message From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop
into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and
outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing
up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on
another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
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point
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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


in
message I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have
Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports
differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it
is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day
to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one
month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft
help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless
to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[anthonyjstewart]

Yes I tried this on my outlook 2007 i.e. exporting from my PC to his and it
imported fine on his outlook 2007 so I know this works. However the old way
worked fine too so that doesn't tell me anything yet.

Unfortuantely he is using outlook 98, don't ask its an old corp system what
can I say, so I have exported the category list from outlook 98 to a PST file
on his machine, I am currently trying to work out how to get it off his
system as its a 10Mb file and it wont upload to his mail server because of
internal limits and the disabling of memory stick facilities and they have no
compression software sigh. So this might work I wont know until I can get
the file onto the other PC.

Thanks

Repeating: you do not use export or import to transfer Outlook data. Use the
procedure that was recommended. Note that you will have to use a view of the
Calendar that actually shows your appointments in list fashion, such as By
Category.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My time zone and clock information are identical. I will ask him to
export
the calendar in the way you described below to see if this makes a
difference
although I can't say that it should. It would be interesting to see if
outlook 2003 will import the data although I am using 2007 and it imports
fine using our original method.

Thanks

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use
Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time zone
is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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message Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why only
a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in outlook
they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook
2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something we
did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

:

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

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message From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop
into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and
outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only messing
up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on
another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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point
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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


in
message I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have
Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports
differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other it
is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1 day
to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one
month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft
help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased. Needless
to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Trust us. If you continue to use export and import, you will lose or alter
data.
Moreover, you cannot export a "category list." Categories are stored in the
registry.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Yes I tried this on my outlook 2007 i.e. exporting from my PC to his and
it
imported fine on his outlook 2007 so I know this works. However the old
way
worked fine too so that doesn't tell me anything yet.

Unfortuantely he is using outlook 98, don't ask its an old corp system
what
can I say, so I have exported the category list from outlook 98 to a PST
file
on his machine, I am currently trying to work out how to get it off his
system as its a 10Mb file and it wont upload to his mail server because of
internal limits and the disabling of memory stick facilities and they have
no
compression software sigh. So this might work I wont know until I can get
the file onto the other PC.

Thanks

Repeating: you do not use export or import to transfer Outlook data. Use
the
procedure that was recommended. Note that you will have to use a view of
the
Calendar that actually shows your appointments in list fashion, such as
By
Category.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My time zone and clock information are identical. I will ask him to
export
the calendar in the way you described below to see if this makes a
difference
although I can't say that it should. It would be interesting to see if
outlook 2003 will import the data although I am using 2007 and it
imports
fine using our original method.

Thanks

:

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use
Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is
no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time
zone
is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused
by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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message Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will
double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why
only
a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field
mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in
outlook
they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook
2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something
we
did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

:

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file
and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on
both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start
of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into
outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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in
message From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make
no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop
into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and
outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only
messing
up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily
event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on
another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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"anthonyjstewart" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have
Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports
differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other
it
is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1
day
to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked
the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two
field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is
now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one
month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft
help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased.
Needless
to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you working with ANSI psts? You'll lose data that outlook 2007 uses but
Outlook 98 does not.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Yes I tried this on my outlook 2007 i.e. exporting from my PC to his and
it
imported fine on his outlook 2007 so I know this works. However the old
way
worked fine too so that doesn't tell me anything yet.

Unfortuantely he is using outlook 98, don't ask its an old corp system
what
can I say, so I have exported the category list from outlook 98 to a PST
file
on his machine, I am currently trying to work out how to get it off his
system as its a 10Mb file and it wont upload to his mail server because of
internal limits and the disabling of memory stick facilities and they have
no
compression software sigh. So this might work I wont know until I can get
the file onto the other PC.

Thanks

Repeating: you do not use export or import to transfer Outlook data. Use
the
procedure that was recommended. Note that you will have to use a view of
the
Calendar that actually shows your appointments in list fashion, such as
By
Category.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

My time zone and clock information are identical. I will ask him to
export
the calendar in the way you described below to see if this makes a
difference
although I can't say that it should. It would be interesting to see if
outlook 2003 will import the data although I am using 2007 and it
imports
fine using our original method.

Thanks

:

To move items to a new pst, select all and either drag and drop or use
Edit,
move to folder command (or copy to folder command).

The pst formats are identical with outlook 2003 and 2007 and there is
no
reason why it would change the date by months or years. If the Time
zone
is
not correct it will change it by hours. Other changes would be caused
by
addins - we know the outlooksetup addin that comes with Dell computers
causes some issues, although not with dates.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


message Hi Diana

I am pretty sure all the settings are the same although I will
double
check
this. Even if they were slightly different I don't understand why
only
a
very small amount of records are affected. As I said the field
mapping
shows
the conversion should be fine, it is only when they end up in
outlook
they
are different.

If not import then what else? I can't see anything else that looks
remotely
sensible as an option to import an outlook 2003 caledar into outlook
2007?
This is a weekly upload from work to home btw so this is something
we
did
fine and every week before we upgraded to outlook 2007.

Thanks

:

Are the dates also wrong if you use file, open, outlook data file
and
copy
the appointments over? Are the times and time zones identical on
both
computers? (Including the time zone patches that adjust the start
of
DST. )

Note we don't usually recommend using import to get data into
outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


in
message From another version of outlook 2003. However, this should make
no
difference as I have already imported this calendar on my Laptop
into
outlook
2007 with no problems. My other laptop which is also vista and
outlook
2007
from office does not import correctly. I think it is only
messing
up
the
all
day appointments that sit at the top of the day i.e. the daily
event
entries
as the regular appointments seem OK.

I stress that I have imported this calendar with no problems on
another
laptop with the same version of outlook 2007 which is why I don't
understand
it. I reinstalled the s/w too.

Thanks

:

Where did you get the calendar you are importing from?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"anthonyjstewart" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
I have a strange problem which only affects my laptop. I have
Small
Business
2007 installed on two PC's yet the same calendar imports
differently
on
both
machines. One one machine it imports perfectly on the other
it
is
messing
with the dates so that all day appointments go form being 1
day
to
sometimes
ending up at a year or 14 months long which is absurd.


I reinstalled everything on the offeding computer and checked
the
field
mapping on the import on an example field. Between the two
field
mapping
screens the source and destination date fields were perfectly
correct.
However on importing and opening in Calendar the to date is
now
completely
wrong and is out by a month.

Example:

Source Start Date End Date 2007 end date

2/4/2009 3/4/2009 3/5/2009

For some inexplicable reason it has changed the month by one
month
in
outlook. It's completely bizaare.

I can't even begin to say how outraged I am that the Microsoft
help
desk
want to charge me for support of a product I purchased.
Needless
to
say I
wont be upgrading again.

Has anyone encountered this problem?