Help, Please... importing 2000 (IMO mode) data into 2003, on Win XP.

[Mark246]

The .PST file for Outlook 2000 got too big. I shrunk it a bit with
PST2GB. I ran SCANPST and it says it worked.

To avoid that problem again, I got Outlook 2003, and started it with
the option /cleanpst. When I try to import everything from the fixed
2000 PST file, it says I need to run SCANPST on it. I Already Did
That!

How can I import my old data?

Thanks very much, in advance.

Mark

 

[Brian Tillman]

The .PST file for Outlook 2000 got too big. I shrunk it a bit with
PST2GB. I ran SCANPST and it says it worked.

To avoid that problem again, I got Outlook 2003, and started it with
the option /cleanpst. When I try to import everything from the fixed
2000 PST file, it says I need to run SCANPST on it. I Already Did
That!

How can I import my old data?

Avoid importing whenever possible. Have you tried opening the old PST with
File>Open>Outlook Data File?

 

[Mark246]

Avoid importing whenever possible. Have you tried opening the old PST with
File>Open>Outlook Data File?

Thanks for the reply, Brian.

Even though the file extensions are the same, there's apparently an
entirely different file structure between O2000 and O2003.

When I open the old PST file, it opens, and I can read individual
emails, but I want to move them to the new file structure. When I
highlight all emails in an old folder, and drag them to a folder in the
new file structure, it fails after 2 minutes. It says "some items
could not be moved because..."

So,... I Removed Office 2003, re-installed Office 2000, and O2000 opens
up the Scanpst fixed file, but I still cannot copy/move an entire
folder of emails.

So,... now I'm trying Eudora.

THIS IS FRUSTRATING.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Even though the file extensions are the same, there's apparently an
entirely different file structure between O2000 and O2003.

When I open the old PST file, it opens, and I can read individual
emails, but I want to move them to the new file structure. When I
highlight all emails in an old folder, and drag them to a folder in
the new file structure, it fails after 2 minutes. It says "some items
could not be moved because..."

I know for a fact that you can open a good OL 2000 PST with OL 2003 and copy
the contents to an OL 2003 PST because I've done it many times. Your
problem has nothing to do with the "different file structure". What follows
the word "because"? I suspect that your PST is damaged because you let it
get too big. PST2GB whacks data out of the PST in order to get it smaller
that the limit. Just because SCANPST was able to repair it well enough to
open doesn't mean the file is completely OK. If I were in your shoes, I'd
copy the contents of all the folders I could. If a folder wouldn't let me
copy the entire contents, I'd copy the first half of it. If that copied,
I'd copy the second half. If the problem occurred in the second half, I'd
copy the third quarter of the folder and see if that much worked. In other
words, you break your selection ranges down until you've isolated the
problem messages. You may lose a few of them, but you'll get most.