[ilgipper]

typically, i have just done the Export to a .pst file. Then copy the file to a new computer and open or import. This should work seamlessly, including calendar, tasks and emails.

[Jet Jaguar]

tech help.

[FredZarguna]

If you're trying to copy from Outlook to Outlook on another computer or account, just do: File + Export, and save it somewhere you can remember. Grab the file, open Outlook on the target computer or account, do File + Import + From another program or file.

Pay attention to the options in the wizard that follows. If you just want everything, then select the option from the wizard to import into the same folder in the target.

You will need to move accounts by hand.

If you want the cached name/nicknames list that isn't part of contacts, you will also need the .NK2 file. There is a k-base article on how to do that here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287623.

[Dan Nunn]

Agree with #2. PST file export is the way to get all your info from one PC to another.

[Malsua]

Use windows Easy transfer. Put in your Vista disk, autostart it, on the menu pick other tasks. Follow the prompts..stuff the data into a folder and copy the folder over to the new computer and run the wizard again on the new machine to inport. You could even map a drive across the network and dump the exported data directly onto the new machine.

You can choose what to transfer...if you pick just the outlook stuff, it’ll do the entire thing.

Exporting can work too but you have to be a bit more thorough.

[meyer]

And for a more complicated twist, how do I copy my address/contact information from Outlook to my netbook, which has neither Outlook nor Outlook Express (which apparently does not exist any more)? Or is that even possible?

[time4good]

Are you pulling from an Exchange Server? That’s normally stored on the server, although an offline cache file (ost) could exist. IMAP4 accounts also store on the server. If you are pulling from a POP3 login (click on Tools/Account Settings) then the default location for the Outlook.pst file is buried down in the unseen directories in your user area. The clickable places I mention above will display in the bottom window the path of the pst. Go there and copy off the .pst file.
You will have to add the email accounts to the other computer.

[driftdiver]

For email create a personal folder and move the mail into it. This will be on a local drive. You can also copy your pst file over to the new computer and it should have your email. Do a search for *.pst. Make sure the emails are on the new PC before deleting the old one.

For contacts go to file > import export and export your contacts into a file. You can then move the files over to new computer. Through bad experiences I’ve found it best to make back up copies of the contacts and mail folders on occasion. If its stored locally you can lose it all through a hard drive failure.

[mazda77]

http://www.sync2.com/

[databoss]

Gmail...

[tophat9000]

OK simple question you have Outlook 2007 on your old computer ... do you have Outlook 2007 on you new computer?

If you have Outlook on both then it easy to do by.pst file...

but if you trying to take data out/export of Outlook 2007 on your old computer and import it in to a different mail program on your new computer... that another ballgame....

So are you exporting data from one copy of Outlook and importing in to Outlook on another computer?

[tophat9000]

OK blessu Easy Transfer is NOT way to do this for two reason...

Easy Transfer will trafer data beween the same program on two diffrent system

So BOTH would need to have Outlook on them to have any hope of Easy Transfer working for your Outlook data

And If you do have Outlook on both the old and new system...then doing a .pst export and import of the Outlook data is safer and faster

Easy Transfer will bite you in the butt about 1 out 10 times and even if it goes smooth I had it twist up Outlook files

I'm a computer tech and network engineer since 1980...Ive done this a few times;>

[Captain Beyond]

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