Restoring Outlook Suggestion

[bayareapianoman]

Vista on our computer is not allowing us to boot our system and after several
attempts with Microsoft, it appears that our computer is going to have to be
recovered through a system recovery disk.

I do not want to lose our archived emails and address book in Outlook 2007.
I was able to get into the computer's dos-prompt through a boot disk and copy
the outlook and archive .pst files from the Outlook directory. (Do one of
these files also contact our address book?)

In the meantime, we purchased another laptop and have starting using that
Outlook (without the historical emails or address book). I had forgotten to
select the option to save a copy of the emails on the server when I setup
Outlook on the new computer.

Is there a way that I can combine the emails (sent/received) that I have on
my current (new) computer and the ones that I have from my old computer
(through the .pst files)? (Since I just can't download the new emails from
the server since a copy of them weren't stored there?)

Thanks!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There is no address book in Outlook. Not sure why you thought there was. If
you saved your data file, you saved all your data.

 

[bayareapianoman]

Thanks Russ. However, do you have a suggestion as to how I can consolidate
both data files as asked in the original posting so I can retain both
historical and current email activity?

Thanks.

There is no address book in Outlook. Not sure why you thought there was. If
you saved your data file, you saved all your data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Vista on our computer is not allowing us to boot our system and after
several
attempts with Microsoft, it appears that our computer is going to have to
be
recovered through a system recovery disk.

I do not want to lose our archived emails and address book in Outlook
2007.
I was able to get into the computer's dos-prompt through a boot disk and
copy
the outlook and archive .pst files from the Outlook directory. (Do one of
these files also contact our address book?)

In the meantime, we purchased another laptop and have starting using that
Outlook (without the historical emails or address book). I had forgotten
to
select the option to save a copy of the emails on the server when I setup
Outlook on the new computer.

Is there a way that I can combine the emails (sent/received) that I have
on
my current (new) computer and the ones that I have from my old computer
(through the .pst files)? (Since I just can't download the new emails
from
the server since a copy of them weren't stored there?)

Thanks!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Seems to me you would just move the data you want from the non-default PST
into the default PST so they're all in the same file. It's a simple cut and
paste or drag and drop operation.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thanks Russ. However, do you have a suggestion as to how I can
consolidate
both data files as asked in the original posting so I can retain both
historical and current email activity?

Thanks.

There is no address book in Outlook. Not sure why you thought there was.
If
you saved your data file, you saved all your data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Vista on our computer is not allowing us to boot our system and after
several
attempts with Microsoft, it appears that our computer is going to have
to
be
recovered through a system recovery disk.

I do not want to lose our archived emails and address book in Outlook
2007.
I was able to get into the computer's dos-prompt through a boot disk
and
copy
the outlook and archive .pst files from the Outlook directory. (Do one
of
these files also contact our address book?)

In the meantime, we purchased another laptop and have starting using
that
Outlook (without the historical emails or address book). I had
forgotten
to
select the option to save a copy of the emails on the server when I
setup
Outlook on the new computer.

Is there a way that I can combine the emails (sent/received) that I
have
on
my current (new) computer and the ones that I have from my old computer
(through the .pst files)? (Since I just can't download the new emails
from
the server since a copy of them weren't stored there?)

Thanks!