Permission to import .pst folder, and finding it to import.

[cdelune]

I was importing everything in Outlook on my old PC to the new one. Somehow
the most recent 4 months of emails never arrived. I was instructed to do the
following:

On the old computer start My Computer, double click on C, Documents and
Settings, Claire, Local Settings, Application Data, Microsoft, and you will
see Outlook, right click on Outlook and pick Sharing, now share the folder as
outlook. Go to the new pc, start Computer, in the upper right is map a
network drive, pick that and browse and find the outlook share, now fire up
Outlook, under File is import, pick the PST under other, then browse to the
newly created network drive, pick the Outlook file, wait a while then pick
the newly created folder and make sure it does not have all subfolders picked
and it should bring in all the lost emails.

I moved the missing emails into a clearly named folder, but when I tried to
import this .pst folder all I see that’s been shared is four folders
contained in the shared (transferred) files: archive, inbox, other, and
outlook. When I tried to import the folder from inside Outlook I got a “file
access denied†box. I don’t know how to give myself permission to access the
file, nor how to access the single folder I set up in the folders that
contains the pruned missing emails.

Help! Those missing emails are important to have on my new PC!

 

[Gordon]

I was importing everything in Outlook on my old PC to the new one. Somehow
the most recent 4 months of emails never arrived. I was instructed to do
the
following:

On the old computer start My Computer, double click on C, Documents and
Settings, Claire, Local Settings, Application Data, Microsoft, and you
will
see Outlook, right click on Outlook and pick Sharing, now share the folder
as
outlook. Go to the new pc, start Computer, in the upper right is map a
network drive, pick that and browse and find the outlook share, now fire
up
Outlook, under File is import, pick the PST under other, then browse to
the
newly created network drive, pick the Outlook file, wait a while then pick
the newly created folder and make sure it does not have all subfolders
picked
and it should bring in all the lost emails.

I moved the missing emails into a clearly named folder, but when I tried
to
import this .pst folder all I see that’s been shared is four folders
contained in the shared (transferred) files: archive, inbox, other, and
outlook. When I tried to import the folder from inside Outlook I got a
“file
access denied†box. I don’t know how to give myself permission to access
the
file, nor how to access the single folder I set up in the folders that
contains the pruned missing emails.

Help! Those missing emails are important to have on my new PC!

Well. You have done EVERYTHING that a swift search on Google on how to
backup and restore Outlook tells you NOT to do.
And who or what on earth "told" you to do the sharing thing?
I suggest you create a new Mail profile and migrate the data PROPERLY as
under:
on the old machine close Outlook and make a copy of the pst file
On the new machine PASTE the file, (do NOT use import, ever, for
transferring data from one Outlook to another) in a place to which your User
account has full read/write access. (Your Documents folder is ideal).
Then open Outlook in the new profile and do File-Open-Outlook Data File and
navigate to where you put it.
You can then set the old file as the default delivery location.

For future reference:

How to backup and restore Outlook

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx

There is out-dated information on some of these pages, specifically with
regard to Outlook 2003 and 2007.

The main points to note:
1. Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data from one
version to another - all you need to do is to copy the pst file, with
Outlook closed.

2. Do NOT paste the copied pst file into the default location - paste into
(for example) your Documents folder and then do File-Open-Outlook Data File
within Outlook.