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  #1  
Old February 6th 07, 12:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Steve Cochran
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook 2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.


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Old February 6th 07, 04:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
tupela_damon
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook 2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.


  #3  
Old February 6th 07, 05:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Were you using Outlook 2000 in IMO or Corp mode? If IMO mode, I doubt the
groups came across. If I recall correctly, exporting from the wab does not
include groups. If corp mode, copy the pst to Vista, use file, open and move
the contacts to the new pst.

Note: this is one situation where importing data into Outlook is better than
just opening the pst and using it as your default message store. The pst in
Outlook 2000 is the older, smaller format so you want to move the data to
the new Outlook 2007 pst format.

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"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.




  #4  
Old February 6th 07, 11:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

I would never trust that utility to transfer my Outlook Data. It is easy and
simple to transfer Outlook data using the supported method. Any other method
loses data, including distribution lists.
I trust you have a backup. Just open that backup in Outlook and set it as
the default file. All your data will be there.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.



  #5  
Old February 6th 07, 12:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

I suspect that part of the problem is that td was using Outlook 2000 in IMO mode, which uses Outlook Express "groups" not real Outlook distribution lists. THus, there were no distribution lists to transfer at all.

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Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ...
I would never trust that utility to transfer my Outlook Data. It is easy and
simple to transfer Outlook data using the supported method. Any other method
loses data, including distribution lists.
I trust you have a backup. Just open that backup in Outlook and set it as
the default file. All your data will be there.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.


  #6  
Old February 6th 07, 06:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
tupela_damon
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Note: Data on my old XP computer is not lost during Easy Transfer to my new
Vista computer.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I would never trust that utility to transfer my Outlook Data. It is easy and
simple to transfer Outlook data using the supported method. Any other method
loses data, including distribution lists.
I trust you have a backup. Just open that backup in Outlook and set it as
the default file. All your data will be there.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.


  #7  
Old February 6th 07, 08:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Brian Tillman
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

tupela_damon wrote:

Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007
in Vista. They can probably indicate what files you need to copy
over.


There's no reason to import Contacts. In Outlook 2007, open the OL 2000 PST
and simply copy the contacts from the old Contacts folder to the new one.
--
Brian Tillman

  #8  
Old February 6th 07, 10:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Perhaps, but not necessarily. You created DL's in IMO the same as any other
version and they resided in the PST file. It's not clear whether this user
was using DL's or WAB groups since both terms were used. I'd bet a dozen
oysters that even DL's from Outlook 2000 wouldn't survive Easy Transfer. ET
seems to be dropping a lot of things.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
I suspect that part of the problem is that td was using Outlook 2000 in IMO
mode, which uses Outlook Express "groups" not real Outlook distribution
lists. THus, there were no distribution lists to transfer at all.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
I would never trust that utility to transfer my Outlook Data. It is easy
and
simple to transfer Outlook data using the supported method. Any other
method
loses data, including distribution lists.
I trust you have a backup. Just open that backup in Outlook and set it as
the default file. All your data will be there.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail
or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.



  #9  
Old February 6th 07, 10:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Posts: 9,348
Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

Then you probably weren't even using Distribution Lists in Outlook 2000. You
never clarified that part for us.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Note: Data on my old XP computer is not lost during Easy Transfer to my
new
Vista computer.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I would never trust that utility to transfer my Outlook Data. It is easy
and
simple to transfer Outlook data using the supported method. Any other
method
loses data, including distribution lists.
I trust you have a backup. Just open that backup in Outlook and set it as
the default file. All your data will be there.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"tupela_damon" wrote in message
...
Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007 in
Vista.
They can probably indicate what files you need to copy over.

steve

"tupela_damon" wrote in
message
...
I recently used the Easy Transfer option in Vista Home Premium to
transfer
my
Home XP files on my old computer onto my new. After the transfer
was
complete I noticed that my Contact Groups (Mailing Lists) in Outlook
2000
and
Outlook Express 6 did not appear to be transferred into Windows Mail
or
Outlook 2007. Any ideas? I hate to have to recreate them as I had
several
lists.



  #10  
Old February 9th 07, 03:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
Rebecca
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Default Where did my Contact Groups go?

I am confused by the answers here. One says that all is lost, the other says
there is a simple solution. I downloaded the trial 2007 (I had XP service
pack 2) and now my very important distribution list is gone. I am not so
computer literate, so is there a step-by-step way to find my list?

Rebecca

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

tupela_damon wrote:

Question below--

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Ask in an Outlook group how to import contacts from O2000 to O2007
in Vista. They can probably indicate what files you need to copy
over.


There's no reason to import Contacts. In Outlook 2007, open the OL 2000 PST
and simply copy the contacts from the old Contacts folder to the new one.
--
Brian Tillman


 




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