Recently I installed Office2010 H&B (which includes Outlook) on a laptop that had been running Outlook2000Pro happliy for many years (are you listening MS?).
Dutifully I copied the folders where the PSTs reside - just in case.
I aslo exported iaf files for the two Email Accounts, and I made a copy of the wab.
All went well, I just needed the Email account password but everything else seemed to come across fine.
I just Opened an Outlook data file - rather than tried any tricky replacement of the new file it created. this way I could be sure any converting would happen a t that point.
Then old emails could be copied or moved over to the new clean uncluttered Inboxes.
So all went smoothly, you ask?
Not entirely, the Calendar was not copied across and no way could the old version of Outlook be loaded to open it.
Perhaps an export of the data or sync to some online service first may have been wise.
But the lease I should have done was PRINT off the next few weeks. Luckily there were only a handful of entries. But all the history was gone.
Live and learn.
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