My Outlook 2002 was running on XP system when computer failed. I mounted old
hard drive externally and connected it to my new computer running Vista. I
copied the old files to Outlook 2002 on Vista to the Outlook folder located
at C:\ users \ user name \ appdata \ local \ Microsoft \ outlook
The old files I copied to the outlook folder were extend.dat ; mailbox.PAB
; outlook1backup.pst ; outlook1.log
I then pointed Outlook to the outlook1backup.pst file and opened Outlook.
Everything from my old program was there on the Outlook 2002 Vista system
EXCEPT my Personal address book (.PAB file). My contacts are there but my PAB
contains many more e-mail addresses than my contacts.
I would appreciate any help provided in successfully transferring my PAB.
I apologize Brian for starting a new thread but I have struggled mightily to
get this point.
If I can get my .PAB file to work it appears the only remaining item will be
to reconstruct my sending / receiving (POP3 /SMTP) accounts. Correct?
Everything else seems to be there and working. FYI; I have taken your
suggestion and purchased MS Office 2003 from e-bay. Haven’t received it yet
but hopefully it will be an improvement over Outlook 2002.
Ray19

'Tools|Services', make sure the Personal Address Book service is loaded.

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"Ray19" wrote in message
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My Outlook 2002 was running on XP system when computer failed. I mounted
old
hard drive externally and connected it to my new computer running Vista.
I
copied the old files to Outlook 2002 on Vista to the Outlook folder
located
at C:\ users \ user name \ appdata \ local \ Microsoft \ outlook
The old files I copied to the outlook folder were extend.dat ;
mailbox.PAB
; outlook1backup.pst ; outlook1.log
I then pointed Outlook to the outlook1backup.pst file and opened Outlook.
Everything from my old program was there on the Outlook 2002 Vista system
EXCEPT my Personal address book (.PAB file). My contacts are there but my
PAB
contains many more e-mail addresses than my contacts.
I would appreciate any help provided in successfully transferring my PAB.
I apologize Brian for starting a new thread but I have struggled mightily
to
get this point.
If I can get my .PAB file to work it appears the only remaining item will
be
to reconstruct my sending / receiving (POP3 /SMTP) accounts. Correct?
Everything else seems to be there and working. FYI; I have taken your
suggestion and purchased MS Office 2003 from e-bay. Haven't received it
yet
but hopefully it will be an improvement over Outlook 2002.
Ray19

FWIW, Outlook 2002 is not supported on Vista. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm for more info. Also, you need to
import the pab into contacts as future versions do not support it.

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"Ray19" wrote in message
...
My Outlook 2002 was running on XP system when computer failed. I mounted
old
hard drive externally and connected it to my new computer running Vista.
I
copied the old files to Outlook 2002 on Vista to the Outlook folder
located
at C:\ users \ user name \ appdata \ local \ Microsoft \ outlook
The old files I copied to the outlook folder were extend.dat ;
mailbox.PAB
; outlook1backup.pst ; outlook1.log
I then pointed Outlook to the outlook1backup.pst file and opened Outlook.
Everything from my old program was there on the Outlook 2002 Vista system
EXCEPT my Personal address book (.PAB file). My contacts are there but my
PAB
contains many more e-mail addresses than my contacts.
I would appreciate any help provided in successfully transferring my PAB.
I apologize Brian for starting a new thread but I have struggled mightily
to
get this point.
If I can get my .PAB file to work it appears the only remaining item will
be
to reconstruct my sending / receiving (POP3 /SMTP) accounts. Correct?
Everything else seems to be there and working. FYI; I have taken your
suggestion and purchased MS Office 2003 from e-bay. Haven’t received it
yet
but hopefully it will be an improvement over Outlook 2002.
Ray19