Address book issue

OK, Russ, lets's drop the gloves.

What does it matter whether I've posted in this thread before? I'm having
the same problem - using MS recommended procedures -and I supplied complete
and detailed information about my situation, something you chided Tengu about.

Second, how the &#$@ would I know that "Vista's Easy Transfer does not work
with Outlook "? There are no indications in the documentation that that is
the case, and no messages to that effect when running the transfer tool. If
there's a posting elsewhere to that effect, supply the link and just say
"sorry" - don't try to make the user (me) out to be an idiot.

Frankly, your attitude does stink, especially in a "new users" forum. Maybe
you need a vacation.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Start fresh? Were you posting in this thread before? Were you not aware that
Vista's Easy Transfer does not work with Outlook and should not be used?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Option 3 was the only one that worked. Here's what I did:

1. closed Outlook 2007
2. in Control Panel, accessed Mail
3. Created a new profile with the same e-mail info (this creats a new PST
file in the OL 2007 format).
4. specified that this new profile should be used when Outlook starts.
5. Started Outlook.
6. In Tools- Account Settings, on the Data Files tab, added my old PST file
as a data file
7. copied the contents of the common folders (Inbox, SentMail, etc.), and
all the custom folders I'd created, from my old Personal Folders to the new
one.
8. In Tools--Account Settings, on the Data Files tab, removed my original
PST data file.
9. imported my original PAB into Contacts (via File-Import)

All my contacts are there, and all my original mail is there. Russ may be
correct that "Easy Transfer" doesn't work for Outlook 2007, but this
procedure does.

'nite from Tampa (72 degrees on my patio at 9:30. Go Bolts! ;-)

NNTP is not a "new users" forum. Nor were you in any way posting the "same
problem." A new thread posting your new problem would have been appropriate.
Adding to an existing thread about a different problem just misleads us and
wastes our time.
The fact that WET does not work for Outlook and should not be used has been
documented many times here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jeff Hill" wrote in message
...
OK, Russ, lets's drop the gloves.

What does it matter whether I've posted in this thread before? I'm having
the same problem - using MS recommended procedures -and I supplied
complete
and detailed information about my situation, something you chided Tengu
about.

Second, how the &#$@ would I know that "Vista's Easy Transfer does not
work
with Outlook "? There are no indications in the documentation that that is
the case, and no messages to that effect when running the transfer tool.
If
there's a posting elsewhere to that effect, supply the link and just say
"sorry" - don't try to make the user (me) out to be an idiot.

Frankly, your attitude does stink, especially in a "new users" forum.
Maybe
you need a vacation.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Start fresh? Were you posting in this thread before? Were you not aware
that
Vista's Easy Transfer does not work with Outlook and should not be used?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

"New Users" is what showed up in the technet search field when positioned on
this thread.

On your second point ("Many times"), I did a search for "Windows Easy
Transfer" and got 16 hits across "General" and "New Users". 12 of these were
passing references or suggestions to try WET with no subsequent replies by
the original poster (in which case it may have worked as designed).

Of the other four, two were positive (Millie and Diane), and two were
negative, both by you, and both were rather terse.

My point is, you've obviously got issues with WET which are probably well
founded, buy you haven't explicated them well. And in one of the other posts
you provided an excellent solution to a problem that didn't involve WET.

My guess is you understand the low-level technical issues, but haven't
communicated them fully. (As one of the architects of AIX back in 1987, I had
problems explaining BSD/SVID convergence and X.11 to some of my audience, so
I feel your pain.)

Maybe a post about "Why WET won't properly migrate Outlook from XP to Vista"
- with workarounds of course - might be in order?

BTW... Bolts 3, Oilers 1.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

NNTP is not a "new users" forum. Nor were you in any way posting the "same
problem." A new thread posting your new problem would have been appropriate.
Adding to an existing thread about a different problem just misleads us and
wastes our time.
The fact that WET does not work for Outlook and should not be used has been
documented many times here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

What interface are you using? Whatever it is is simply an overlay to USENET.
We are all just end users using a news reader to post in a newsgroup. This
is not PSS. No one here is from Microsoft and no official information is
posted here. We discovered on our own that WET does not work with Outlook
and corrupts the profile. We reported it to Microsoft weeks ago. If they
want to acknowledge it officially and post workarounds in the KB (or better
yet, fix it) it is up to them to do so.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jeff Hill" wrote in message
...
"New Users" is what showed up in the technet search field when positioned
on
this thread.

On your second point ("Many times"), I did a search for "Windows Easy
Transfer" and got 16 hits across "General" and "New Users". 12 of these
were
passing references or suggestions to try WET with no subsequent replies by
the original poster (in which case it may have worked as designed).

Of the other four, two were positive (Millie and Diane), and two were
negative, both by you, and both were rather terse.

My point is, you've obviously got issues with WET which are probably well
founded, buy you haven't explicated them well. And in one of the other
posts
you provided an excellent solution to a problem that didn't involve WET.

My guess is you understand the low-level technical issues, but haven't
communicated them fully. (As one of the architects of AIX back in 1987, I
had
problems explaining BSD/SVID convergence and X.11 to some of my audience,
so
I feel your pain.)

Maybe a post about "Why WET won't properly migrate Outlook from XP to
Vista"
- with workarounds of course - might be in order?

BTW... Bolts 3, Oilers 1.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

NNTP is not a "new users" forum. Nor were you in any way posting the
"same
problem." A new thread posting your new problem would have been
appropriate.
Adding to an existing thread about a different problem just misleads us
and
wastes our time.
The fact that WET does not work for Outlook and should not be used has
been
documented many times here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Russ,
I'm using the microsoft TechNet website, not a news reader.

Too bad about WET. It did xfer some other accounts I manage under OE to
Windows Mail, but a couple of the DBXs were too big and it abandoned those so
I'll have to do them manually.

BTW, in order to post on TechNet I have to use FireFox because whenever I
try to log in under IE7 the site thinks I have cookies disabled (regardless
of the actual cookie settings). That's MS for you...

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

What interface are you using? Whatever it is is simply an overlay to USENET.
We are all just end users using a news reader to post in a newsgroup. This
is not PSS. No one here is from Microsoft and no official information is
posted here. We discovered on our own that WET does not work with Outlook
and corrupts the profile. We reported it to Microsoft weeks ago. If they
want to acknowledge it officially and post workarounds in the KB (or better
yet, fix it) it is up to them to do so.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jeff Hill" wrote in message
...
"New Users" is what showed up in the technet search field when positioned
on
this thread.

On your second point ("Many times"), I did a search for "Windows Easy
Transfer" and got 16 hits across "General" and "New Users". 12 of these
were
passing references or suggestions to try WET with no subsequent replies by
the original poster (in which case it may have worked as designed).

Of the other four, two were positive (Millie and Diane), and two were
negative, both by you, and both were rather terse.

My point is, you've obviously got issues with WET which are probably well
founded, buy you haven't explicated them well. And in one of the other
posts
you provided an excellent solution to a problem that didn't involve WET.

My guess is you understand the low-level technical issues, but haven't
communicated them fully. (As one of the architects of AIX back in 1987, I
had
problems explaining BSD/SVID convergence and X.11 to some of my audience,
so
I feel your pain.)

Maybe a post about "Why WET won't properly migrate Outlook from XP to
Vista"
- with workarounds of course - might be in order?

BTW... Bolts 3, Oilers 1.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

NNTP is not a "new users" forum. Nor were you in any way posting the
"same
problem." A new thread posting your new problem would have been
appropriate.
Adding to an existing thread about a different problem just misleads us
and
wastes our time.
The fact that WET does not work for Outlook and should not be used has
been
documented many times here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Well I have no access to the TechNet website to know what the interface
might look like to you. But I find it doubly ironic that you would be ported
to a "new users" group (which in fact does not exist) and that you can only
access it with FireFox. Does anything seem wrong with this picture?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jeff Hill" wrote in message
...

Russ,
I'm using the microsoft TechNet website, not a news reader.

Too bad about WET. It did xfer some other accounts I manage under OE to
Windows Mail, but a couple of the DBXs were too big and it abandoned those
so
I'll have to do them manually.

BTW, in order to post on TechNet I have to use FireFox because whenever I
try to log in under IE7 the site thinks I have cookies disabled
(regardless
of the actual cookie settings). That's MS for you...

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

What interface are you using? Whatever it is is simply an overlay to
USENET.
We are all just end users using a news reader to post in a newsgroup.
This
is not PSS. No one here is from Microsoft and no official information is
posted here. We discovered on our own that WET does not work with Outlook
and corrupts the profile. We reported it to Microsoft weeks ago. If they
want to acknowledge it officially and post workarounds in the KB (or
better
yet, fix it) it is up to them to do so.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jeff Hill" wrote in message
...
"New Users" is what showed up in the technet search field when
positioned
on
this thread.

On your second point ("Many times"), I did a search for "Windows Easy
Transfer" and got 16 hits across "General" and "New Users". 12 of these
were
passing references or suggestions to try WET with no subsequent replies
by
the original poster (in which case it may have worked as designed).

Of the other four, two were positive (Millie and Diane), and two were
negative, both by you, and both were rather terse.

My point is, you've obviously got issues with WET which are probably
well
founded, buy you haven't explicated them well. And in one of the other
posts
you provided an excellent solution to a problem that didn't involve
WET.

My guess is you understand the low-level technical issues, but haven't
communicated them fully. (As one of the architects of AIX back in 1987,
I
had
problems explaining BSD/SVID convergence and X.11 to some of my
audience,
so
I feel your pain.)

Maybe a post about "Why WET won't properly migrate Outlook from XP to
Vista"
- with workarounds of course - might be in order?

BTW... Bolts 3, Oilers 1.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

NNTP is not a "new users" forum. Nor were you in any way posting the
"same
problem." A new thread posting your new problem would have been
appropriate.
Adding to an existing thread about a different problem just misleads
us
and
wastes our time.
The fact that WET does not work for Outlook and should not be used has
been
documented many times here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Mar 7, 9:41 pm, Jeff Hill
wrote:
Option 3 was the only one that worked. Here's what I did:

1. closedOutlook2007
2. in Control Panel, accessed Mail
3. Created a new profile with the samee-mailinfo (this creats a new PST
file in the OL 2007 format).
4. specified that this new profile should be used whenOutlookstarts.
5. StartedOutlook.
6. In Tools- Account Settings, on the Data Files tab, added my old PST file
as a data file
7. copied the contents of the common folders (Inbox, SentMail, etc.), and
all the custom folders I'd created, from my old Personal Folders to the new
one.
8. In Tools--Account Settings, on the Data Files tab, removed my original
PST data file.
9. imported my original PAB into Contacts (via File-Import)

All my contacts are there, and all my original mail is there. Russ may be
correct that "Easy Transfer" doesn't work forOutlook2007, but this
procedure does.

'nite from Tampa (72 degrees on my patio at 9:30. Go Bolts! ;-)

Jeff,

Wanted to let you know this process worked great and I am able to
access my contacts again. Thanks!

Brian