WRA wrote:

I am not understanding something fundamental about Outlook 2003. I
bought a new pc and have been transferring data to it. I installed
Office 2003 on the new computer and then moved the Outlook.pst file
over to it, and replaced the tiny one that the new installation of
Outlook had created.

By the way, it isn't good practice to overwrite one PST with another. You
can damage your mail profile that way.
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Brian Tillman