Custom categories are missing when you upgrade or migrate

[grand slack]

When I migrated to a new laptop, running Office/Outlook 2003, I also migrated
a Office/Outlook 2002 version of the .pst.

Everything transferred properly, Contacts, e-mails, etc. Except - any custom
Categories do not show up on the Master Category list - they show in the
applicable Contact record as originally defined.

Apart from trying to migrate Registry entries (or manually re-entering every
record), is there another way (or a practical tool) to get Categories that
were 'custom defined' back unto the Master Category list in Outlook 2003?

And where can this "feature??" be added be recommended to Microsoft for
inclusion in a patch or for future versions. I also support someone that had
over 200 custom categories (that also did not make it over during his upgrade
to Office/Outlook 2003).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your master category list is not in the .pst file. It lives in the Windows registry ... on your old machine. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.htm

Outlook 2007 will behave more like what you were expecting.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[grand slack]

Please read this carefully ...

I read the info in the www.slipstick... link. (prior to you sending it to me)

Two issues:
1. The Master Category list was on a Office 2000 implementation (version 9 ??)
2. Office 2003 is version 11 ??

Exporting a key is simple enough, however:
3. I will end up exporting an entry that applies to Outlook (version 9)
4. The comment on the site to "you'll need to change the version number in
the key before importing." -- and how is one supposed to do this ???

So .. garbage-incomplete-unclear advice ... and this is supposed to help
Outlook users with this problem ???