Office Outlook 2003 fails to import from OE

[Till Hering]

I've importet all my OE mails and contacts to Office Outlook 2003 but
it seems that the date informations of several mails got lost.
Hundrets of mails are shown with the same "received" date, but when I
look up the mail header, the received flag shows the correct values.
How can I force Outlook to reindex the mails?
(The automatic Office-Repair function didn't solve the problem)

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I've importet all my OE mails and contacts to Office Outlook 2003 but
it seems that the date informations of several mails got lost.
Hundrets of mails are shown with the same "received" date, but when I
look up the mail header, the received flag shows the correct values.
How can I force Outlook to reindex the mails?
(The automatic Office-Repair function didn't solve the problem)

That's not the sort of thing Office Repair works on - it doesn't touch data,
only missing components and regsirty settings.

As for the main problem, I'm in the same boat....

Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Importing data into Outlook will always loose the received dates. If one
imports data from a .pst file, even more items are lost - custom forms,
connections between items and the journal, etc. Importing has always been a
bad idea - exporting/opening is a better bet all the way around.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Mike Williams [MVP] <mikew@[removeme]mvps.org> asked:

| Till Hering wrote:
|| I've importet all my OE mails and contacts to Office Outlook 2003 but
|| it seems that the date informations of several mails got lost.
|| Hundrets of mails are shown with the same "received" date, but when I
|| look up the mail header, the received flag shows the correct values.
|| How can I force Outlook to reindex the mails?
|| (The automatic Office-Repair function didn't solve the problem)
|
| That's not the sort of thing Office Repair works on - it doesn't
| touch data, only missing components and regsirty settings.
|
| As for the main problem, I'm in the same boat....
|
| Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/
|
| Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup - not by email!
| Include details of your application and Windows versions, plus any
| service pack updates. Answers may also be found by reading recent
| posts, checking the FAQs or searching the relevant Google archive at.
| http://groups.google.com/groups?group=microsoft.public

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Always Export from OE to OL.

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Coauthor, Visual Quick Start Guide - OneNote 2003


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[Till Hering]

Always Export from OE to OL.

Thank you!

I deleted all the importet mails and exported them from OE. It worked!

But I personally don't understand the difference between exporting and
importing. Why did MS spend more time on developing the OE export then
on the Outlook 2003 import...