There is no way to convert a PST file. If you need to convert to the new
format, you create a new PST file in the new format. You copy the data you
want from your old to the new. You lose:
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
Continuing to use your old PST file preserves these.
Don't blame me. This wasn't my idea. Microsoft makes you choose between the
new format or the above information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"pearsons_11114" wrote in message
...
Well, I wouldn't call it a pressing need, just SOP. In the rest of the of
the
software world, when a vendor changes the format of their product, the
normal
procedure is to provide a way users to convert existing data. That's
usually
pretty critical to retaining any customers. Not so on Planet Microsoft?
;-)
That seems pretty lame. Seriously, I must be missing something here.




"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Only if you do not still have the original PST file.
If you have some pressing need to convert to the new PST file format in
Outlook 2003, then count on losing your links.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"pearsons_11114" wrote in message
...
I'll dig up the link. In the meantime, how do I find the unlinked
journal
entries. Are they deleted?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

That would be expected. Not sure what suggestions you were following,
but
they were not the right ones. If you need to preserve links, you use
the
same PST, not a new one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"pearsons_11114" wrote in message
news I followed the suggested route and created a new PST, opened the old
one
in
Outlook and copied from the old PST to the new. However, all of the
journal
entries associated with each contact are missing. I believe in 2000
Journal
entries had there own entry in the folder tree, but that seems to
have
gone
away in 2003. Thanks.