Copying Outlook content & contacts

[MIKE MEDLIN]

I hope someone can help me with this frustrating task. I am changing
computers, and I need to copy my Outlook content & contacts from my laptop
and transfer them to my desktop. I have a 500GB external harddrive, but
everytime that I copy the entire Outlook file, apps & database, when I go to
check to see if I successfully loaded the content and try to open on my
desktop there is no data there, nor any contacts.
Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong?,...and how to copy and
transfer this data to my desktop.
Thanks in advance...
Mike M.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I hope someone can help me with this frustrating task. I am changing
computers, and I need to copy my Outlook content & contacts from my laptop
and transfer them to my desktop. I have a 500GB external harddrive, but
everytime that I copy the entire Outlook file, apps & database, when I go
to
check to see if I successfully loaded the content and try to open on my
desktop there is no data there, nor any contacts.
Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong?,...and how to copy and
transfer this data to my desktop.

See if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2002/up020605.htm#movetonew2002

 

[DL]

Remove/delete anything outlook related you copied to your new desktop.
Check that outlook runs OK on the new PC, then
With Outlook closed, on both PC's, you locate the data files, search to
include hidden for *.pst on PC you want to copy from, copy all found to
memory stick.
Copy from stick to Documents folder on new PC, the default name for the data
file is outlook.pst, but could be anyname you gave it, typically it is the
largest pst
Start Outlook, then File>Open>Data File......browse to this pst
Drag and drop data from this set of Personal Folders to the default set,
which will be the topmost set, in Tree View
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm