Importing .pst file

**Brian Tillman** · July 5th 06, 06:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
wrote:

when it comes to saving
a .pst file, a chicken must be sacrificed, virgins defiled, dancing
around beltane fires must be completed, and bodily tattoes must be
scrived.

Sounds like fun!
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Brian Tillman

**Trevor** · July 5th 06, 07:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Import/export is there in the menu. Why should I ever know there's any other
way?

**Trevor** · July 5th 06, 07:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Trevor wrote:

It's been reformatted and reinstalled with Windows.

Any chance of using recovery software?

Unlikely, I should think.
--

Thats an awful lot of friends around the world I've suddenly lost!

**Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]** · July 5th 06, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Import and export are what you do to convert to another file format.
You have no need to convert to another file format.
All you needed to do is copy your Outlook Data File.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Trevor" wrote in message
. com...
Import/export is there in the menu. Why should I ever know there's any
other way?

**Trevor** · July 5th 06, 08:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Import and export are what you do to convert to another file format.
You have no need to convert to another file format.
All you needed to do is copy your Outlook Data File.

....and so theres no next time, how do you do that?

**Trevor** · July 5th 06, 08:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

I haqve found a backup.pst file from last Nov. How would I re-input this?

**Trevor** · July 5th 06, 08:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Import and export are what you do to convert to another file format.
You have no need to convert to another file format.
All you needed to do is copy your Outlook Data File.

In MIE import and export are to input and export your most used information.
It seemed natural that they served the same purpose in Outlook.

**Brian Tillman** · July 5th 06, 10:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Trevor wrote:

I haqve found a backup.pst file from last Nov. How would I re-input
this?

FileOpenOutlook Data File.
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Brian Tillman

**Brian Tillman** · July 5th 06, 10:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Trevor wrote:

...and so theres no next time, how do you do that?

With Outlook closed, use Windows Explorer to copy the PST.
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Brian Tillman

**Brian Tillman** · July 5th 06, 10:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

Trevor wrote:

Import/export is there in the menu. Why should I ever know there's
any other way?

Just as you don't import a Word document into the Word application and just
as you don't imoprt a spreadsheet into Excel because the files are native to
those applications, so too you don't import a native Outlook file like a PST
into Outlook.
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Brian Tillman

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