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Vince, after fiddling with my pst's and running scanpst, etc., etc., I
now have everything sort of back to normal. I can't say there was one single thing I did that brought things into order. Weirdnesses remain. In my Personal Folders where I store sorted mail I now have an Inbox (which has nothing in it) and a Sent box which receives a copy of all of my sent mail. My main folder that contains the mailboxes for the IMAP mail from mailblocks also has an Inbox which has all of the incoming mail in it (correct as specified), but the Sent box has nothing and receives nothing. I lost all of my contacts in this process and had to export them from my old computer and reinstall them. The calendar now shows up in the right place and the task alerts works now. Any idea why the sent mail is going to the wrong place? I think I still have some screwed up pst files that for now I will just leave as is. Have many, many more transfer problems to tackle. The installation of a new computer just should not be this difficult!! It has been a nightmare from the beginning getting old software moved over! |
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wizard_chef wrote:
I had done that when I set up the new pst file. Still have the same problems. a) The mail does not get delivered to the new pst folder Inbox, it still is being delivered to my old .pst personal folder. Did you stop and restart Outlook? b) When I try to set a task it says the reminder won't appear because my task folder is not in the calendar folder (or some such) c) Now I have 3 calendars that appear. How can I make everything show up in the same folder????? With an IMAP account, you will always have two Inboxes, one in the delivery location PST and one on the IMAP server, but that shouldn't affect the calendar. It sounds like you still have a screwed-up mail profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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wizard_chef wrote:
OK, but this begs the question of why I can no longer see my calendar alerts. Also, why do the names created by File - Open - Outlook Data Files bear no resemblence to the .pst folder names??? It seems to have created Outlook(1), Outlook(2), etc. Are these embedded inside the physical file? The Windows file name of a PST has no connection to the display name Outlook will show you in the folder list. The latter is a value stored in the file. The "Outlook(x)" names are file system (physical file) names. -- Brian Tillman |
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wizard_chef wrote:
Weirdnesses remain. In my Personal Folders where I store sorted mail I now have an Inbox (which has nothing in it) and a Sent box which receives a copy of all of my sent mail. My main folder that contains the mailboxes for the IMAP mail from mailblocks also has an Inbox which has all of the incoming mail in it (correct as specified), but the Sent box has nothing and receives nothing. This is normal. The delivery location Sent Items folder will receive any sent message. The IMAP Sent Items folder will receive messages only if you explicitly create a rule that places them there when they're sent. I lost all of my contacts in this process and had to export them from my old computer and reinstall them. They're probably still on one of the PSTs you created, but as long as you have them back, it's probably moot. -- Brian Tillman |
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I'm back at it again. Whatever contacts/address book I imported did not
have a complete list of what was on my old computer. So, I went back to the old machine, re-exported the contacts file now labelled "backup1.pst", finally got permission correct so the new machine will read it, and stored it on the desktop. When I got to the import function (file-import and export- etc.), I do not get a window that allows me to choose the source file! It jumps directly to a browse window for where I want to store the contact info! Any help appreciated. |
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wizard_chef wrote:
I'm back at it again. Whatever contacts/address book I imported did not have a complete list of what was on my old computer. So, I went back to the old machine, re-exported the contacts file now labelled "backup1.pst", finally got permission correct so the new machine will read it, and stored it on the desktop. Never export or import a PST. There's never a reason to do so. Just copy the original PST from the old PC to the new, make sure it's not read-only, and open it in Outlook with FIleOpenOutlook Data File. You'll then have access to everything that original PST contains and can move things around to suit yourself. -- Brian Tillman |
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