You appear to have some pressing need to validate and defend your own
experience. That experience is anecdote and should be recognized as such for
the benefit of other readers of this thread.
The experience of many is far more valid than the experience of one. In
this newsgroup over the last 12 years we have confirmed that the following
information is not transferred when you export and import a PST file:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists
8. Rules
9. Link between Contacts and the address book view, which cannot be
re-established until a new profile is created and the data migrated
properly.

If none of that information is important, then sure you can export and
import. Why you would want to remains a mystery, however, since simply
copying and opening the PST file is much easier and preserves all of the
above information.
The cardinal rule when providing advice in these groups is primum non
nocere. Your insistence that export and import is the best way to transfer
Outlook data to a new installation violates that rule. Readers of this
thread should know that so they can make up their own mind on what they want
to do. This is a public newsgroup. Your opinion is welcome but needs to be
placed into context.
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Russ Valentine
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No one ever said you corrupted a PST file, but you most certainly lost
data.
The luck was that it was data you happened not to need, such as Rules and
Distribution Lists and links to Contacts and links to the Calendar and
the
links to the address book view. Others may want to preserve that
information
in their next installation.

Um, if you're smart enough to export the PST, why not be smart enough to
export the rules?

All of my distribution lists export and import properly....

Exporting and importing the entire PST file to populate a new
installation
is simply a bad practice that should not be recommended.



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