Migrate .pst from 2002 to 2003

[barry_s]

Our office just migrated to SBS 2003 and Outlook 2003 on Exhange Server. I
backed up my .pst folder prior to these changes. None of my old info, mail,
contacts etc. were transfered in the upgrade. I have my backup file. I
tried to replace the new .pst file in Outlook 2003 with my backed up .pst
file. When Outlook starts, it creates a new .pst file instead of using my
back up. I renamed the back up file "outlook", but Outlook keeps defaulting
to the new file it creates. Can anyone help? My desktop is Windows XP, SP2.
Outlook 2003.

 

[DL]

In OL open your pst, copy stuff to the new pst, close old backup pst
Never overwrite a pst, causes corruption.
This assumes the backup file is actually a pst and it is located on your hd,
with read only flag off