Living hell in moving Outlook 2002 to new machine

[Gordon Jones]

I am trying to move my Outlook XP (on Windows Vista machine) to a laptop so
that I can stay in touch with customers while away from office for 7 weeks.
Discovered that I can't have both 2002 and 2003 on the same machine. Have
tried for several days to uninstall Office Pro 2003, install Office XP
Pro/Developer. Major problems remain:

1. My (voluminous) Contacts won't appear in the Outlook Address Book on the
new Vista machine.
2. I am accumulating a number of "Personal Folders" in my tree; apparently
caused by message "Cannot create the e-mail message because a data file to
send and receive...not found. To add a file...Windows Control Panel".
3. I can't delete the "extra" Personal Folders".

I really don't want to take a desktop with me on my travels. Can anyone
help????

Thanks,

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook 2002 won't work correctly on Vista. You should use Outlook 2003 or
2007.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

to solve your immediate problems, make a new profile and add the old pst to
the profile during creation, before you open outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[DL]

And why would you want to uninstall Office 2003 in order to access your
mail?
Simply copy your data file from the desktop to Vista Documents folder & open
that data file within Outlook 2003
But unless your ISP allows relaying you still wont be able to use your
origonal mail account

 

[Gordon Jones]

Thanks for the info on OfficeXP not running on Vista. I didn't think this
was the case because it was running on my other Vista. Oh well.... It was a
monumental task, but I got XP out and 2003 in on the laptop. However I still
wind up with 2 or 3 extra "Personal Folders" in my Outlook tree. This in
turn makes it very difficult to import folders and subfolders from my other
machine -- which "Personal Folder" do I have to select to get them to a
single PF grouping.... Is there any way to delete/remove the unwanted PFs?
--
Gordon Jones

Outlook 2002 won't work correctly on Vista. You should use Outlook 2003 or
2007.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

to solve your immediate problems, make a new profile and add the old pst to
the profile during creation, before you open outlook.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I am trying to move my Outlook XP (on Windows Vista machine) to a laptop
so
that I can stay in touch with customers while away from office for 7
weeks.
Discovered that I can't have both 2002 and 2003 on the same machine. Have
tried for several days to uninstall Office Pro 2003, install Office XP
Pro/Developer. Major problems remain:

1. My (voluminous) Contacts won't appear in the Outlook Address Book on
the
new Vista machine.
2. I am accumulating a number of "Personal Folders" in my tree; apparently
caused by message "Cannot create the e-mail message because a data file to
send and receive...not found. To add a file...Windows Control Panel".
3. I can't delete the "extra" Personal Folders".

I really don't want to take a desktop with me on my travels. Can anyone
help????

Thanks,

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks for the info on OfficeXP not running on Vista. I didn't think this
was the case because it was running on my other Vista. Oh well.... It
was a
monumental task, but I got XP out and 2003 in on the laptop.

The Office installation won't ley you install more than one version of
Outlook. How did you do it?

 

[Gordon Jones]

I only had Office XP on my desktop, and 2003 on the laptop. Both are Vista
machines. I needed to put Office XP Developer on the laptop to take it with
me so that I can fix problems while away. That's where the problem started.
From that point on, getting XP off of the laptop and 2003 back on presented
the problem.

Incidentally, do you know how to get rid of the extra "Personal Folder"
folders in Outlook?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

if you can't r-click and close, see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/ghosts.htm.

If you need outlook 2002, get VPC or VMWare and install it on WinXP.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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