Organising to Outlook 2000

[garveyite]

I've been using Organizer 4.1 fr ages, suddenly i cannot open it although i
can see my file right there and in lotus/backup, want to now convert to
Outlook, problem is in the export/import ptrion of Outlook organizer 4.1 is
not an option.
Can someone tell me how i may get around this problem? really neeed to
access these files from Organizer.
And what should I do to avoid this in the future?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've been using Organizer 4.1 fr ages, suddenly i cannot open it
although i can see my file right there and in lotus/backup, want to
now convert to Outlook, problem is in the export/import ptrion of
Outlook organizer 4.1 is not an option.
Can someone tell me how i may get around this problem? really neeed
to access these files from Organizer.
And what should I do to avoid this in the future?

In what formats can Organizer export?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've been using Organizer 4.1 fr ages, suddenly i cannot open it
although i can see my file right there and in lotus/backup, want to
now convert to Outlook, problem is in the export/import ptrion of
Outlook organizer 4.1 is not an option.
Can someone tell me how i may get around this problem? really neeed
to access these files from Organizer.
And what should I do to avoid this in the future?

You might want to take a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287688/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297129

 

[garveyite]

Hi Brian,
In The export options of Organizer the options are as follows, ASCI II Text,
dbase dbf, FoxPro .dbf

I was able to open the datafile, yesterday but now i want to get out of
organizer to avoid the trap of obsolescence.

 

[garveyite]

Might be the ultimate Catch 22 as following the instructions show converters
for ver. 2 only and I am using ver. 4 and in the link you provided states
"Use the correct converter"
What it seems i need is the converter in Outllook for ver. 4, it is nt
listed as ne of the options in my outlook 2000.
Now I dont know if it is still possible with asci and dbase etc.

Garvey

 

[Brian Tillman]

In The export options of Organizer the options are as follows, ASCI
II Text, dbase dbf, FoxPro .dbf

Well, you could try ASCII, but Outlook should have Organizer 4.1 as one of
the choices. Try repairing Outlook (Help>Detect and Repair) or check in
Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs to see if you can repair he importers
and exporters in Office.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Might be the ultimate Catch 22 as following the instructions show
converters for ver. 2 only and I am using ver. 4 and in the link you
provided states "Use the correct converter"
What it seems i need is the converter in Outllook for ver. 4, it is nt
listed as ne of the options in my outlook 2000.
Now I dont know if it is still possible with asci and dbase etc.

Oh, yea. I seem to have glossed over the "Outlook 2000" part. I don't have
access to Outlook 2000 to recommend an importer, but I'd try the ASCII
exporter to see if it produces a tab-separated values file. If so, you can
convert it to a comma-separated values file with Excel and then import that
onto Outlook.