Importing Mail items

[SISSCO]

daptop mother board crashes yesterday, was able to have the hard drive
downloaded to external hard drive. I am trying to import the mail items from
the external hard drive onto a new desktop but can't seem to locate the old
mail items. Any body know where to find thems?

 

[Mittu]

Hi,

Run a search for pst files in your computer. These are the datafiles where
Outlook stores data.

Refer the link below to import the data into Outlook.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287070

Thanks,

Mittu

 

[SISSCO]

searched for .pst files. nothing came up. I never backed up my inboxes to
..pst files before. Doesn't outlook save these messages somewhere so I can
retrieve them?

 

[Brian Tillman]

daptop mother board crashes yesterday, was able to have the hard drive
downloaded to external hard drive. I am trying to import the mail
items from the external hard drive onto a new desktop but can't seem
to locate the old mail items. Any body know where to find thems?

Do not listen to anyone who tells you to import. You will lose data that
way. Instead just reuse the original PST.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

searched for .pst files. nothing came up. I never backed up my
inboxes to .pst files before. Doesn't outlook save these messages
somewhere so I can retrieve them?

Your Inbox, Outbox, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, and all other Outlook item
data are always kept in a PST. Backup has nothing to do with it. That PST
is usually in a hidden folder so unless you enable viewing hiddern files and
folders you won't see them.