Office 2007 - reinstalled, how do I re-import emails and contacts

[John Mc]

I had to reinstall windows Vista. Previously I copied Users to another hard
drive as a second backup. Windows put Users into "windows old".

Now I have reinstalled Office 2007. I moved windows.old/Users back to the
original location. Office is not seeing the contacts and emails.
How do I re-import emails and contacts back to itself?

Thanks, John

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I don't think that Vista keeps the .pst file in the User's folder, but I could be wrong. That file (.pst) is where all of your Outlook data is kept.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, John Mc asked:

| I had to reinstall windows Vista. Previously I copied Users to
| another hard drive as a second backup. Windows put Users into
| "windows old".
|
| Now I have reinstalled Office 2007. I moved windows.old/Users back
| to the original location. Office is not seeing the contacts and
| emails.
| How do I re-import emails and contacts back to itself?
|
| Thanks, John

 

[DL]

By default the pst is in Users\'name'\App
Data\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst
I have a feeling copying the old Users folders back may have caused
problems, but a Vista group is the place to ask about that.
Within OL2007 examine the properties of 'Personal Folders' >Advanced Tab and
see what the path/name of the file is.
Then in Vista search to include hidden for *.pst and see/note what is found.
If an outlook.pst existed in the default location when you reinstalled 2007
if it created a new pst it would be named outlook1.pst