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03 SP1 - Can't close dupl Personal Folders - "An object could not.
Bought a new laptop. Copied my .pst file from the old PC (which was running
OL2003). In the process of trying to get all the data out of the old .pst and into the default Outlook.pst that Outlook created when I installed Office on the new PC, I've managed to create two sets of "Personal Folders" pointing to the same (old PC) .pst (in addition to the default Outlook.pst folders list). I can navigate the folders in both old-PC folder lists, but right-click/Close "Personal Folders" gives the following error message: "The operation failed. An object could not be found" Right-click/Properties for "Personal Folders"/Folder Size works fine. But clicking the "Advanced" button, yields the same error message. How do I close these two instances of "Personal Folders" so that they dissappear from my All Folders list? Thanks, JD |
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JD: it is usually easiest to import the messages from your old .pst into the
new .pst. It is pretty smooth and painfree. Delete the newer personal folders you added, restart Outlook and then FileImport and ExportImport from another program or filePersonal File Folde .pst. "JDN" wrote: Bought a new laptop. Copied my .pst file from the old PC (which was running OL2003). In the process of trying to get all the data out of the old .pst and into the default Outlook.pst that Outlook created when I installed Office on the new PC, I've managed to create two sets of "Personal Folders" pointing to the same (old PC) .pst (in addition to the default Outlook.pst folders list). I can navigate the folders in both old-PC folder lists, but right-click/Close "Personal Folders" gives the following error message: "The operation failed. An object could not be found" Right-click/Properties for "Personal Folders"/Folder Size works fine. But clicking the "Advanced" button, yields the same error message. How do I close these two instances of "Personal Folders" so that they dissappear from my All Folders list? Thanks, JD |
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Not so. You'll still lose data that way. Office help provides ample
instructions on the correct way to migrate Outlook data. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...771141033.aspx -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "cgp77" wrote in message news JD: it is usually easiest to import the messages from your old .pst into the new .pst. It is pretty smooth and painfree. Delete the newer personal folders you added, restart Outlook and then FileImport and ExportImport from another program or filePersonal File Folde .pst. "JDN" wrote: Bought a new laptop. Copied my .pst file from the old PC (which was running OL2003). In the process of trying to get all the data out of the old .pst and into the default Outlook.pst that Outlook created when I installed Office on the new PC, I've managed to create two sets of "Personal Folders" pointing to the same (old PC) .pst (in addition to the default Outlook.pst folders list). I can navigate the folders in both old-PC folder lists, but right-click/Close "Personal Folders" gives the following error message: "The operation failed. An object could not be found" Right-click/Properties for "Personal Folders"/Folder Size works fine. But clicking the "Advanced" button, yields the same error message. How do I close these two instances of "Personal Folders" so that they dissappear from my All Folders list? Thanks, JD |
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Thanks for the tips. I'll stick to the straight and narrow next time I have
to re-load data to a pc. Uninstalling and re-installing Outlook had no effect on the problem with the phantom copies of Personal Folders that were showing up, so I resorted to renaming a couple of registry thingies that referred to my phantom folder lists. Seems to have worked without ill-effect so far. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\c6cd8c69bb367b4c8b27e6d 342a649e4-bak HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\94b3b85ea2f9f2468fb41d1 142c655e7-bak |
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