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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2006Invalid Contact Links
Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events, etc become invalid after an export/import? Links have always been broken with importing and exporting. The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are you trying to switch to some other program?  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events, etc > become > invalid after an export/import? My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was to import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have reestablished Outlook? > Links have always been broken with importing and exporting. > The question is, why would you ever need to export and import? Are you > trying to switch to some other program? > > Why do links to Contacts in Tasks, saved emails, Calendar Events, etc > > become > > invalid after an export/import? Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in Outlook, use File->Open->Outlook Data File. This preserves all connections to custom forms, contact linkages, etc. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, EBR asked: | My hard drive crashed and the only way to reestablish Outlook was to | import my backed up .pst file. How else could I have reestablished [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] ||| etc become ||| invalid after an export/import? Milly & Russ, I use Windows2000 and Office2000. I just made the mistake of changing the name of my .PST file and broke all the links that I had between my contacts and my calendar and tasks (birthday shortcuts, etc.). I changed it back to its previous name but that did not fix the problem. I should have read tips here before messing with the .PST file. Once the links are broken, is there a way to get them restored/fixed? I've been to a bunch of sites and am either asking the wrong question and the fix exists or there is no fix. Is there hope or am I up a creek and need to start manually recreating the links. BTW - You guys are the MVP's! I've learned a lot reading what to do and not do in the future. Thanks, Chris > Copy the .pst file to a location of your choice and then in Outlook, use > File->Open->Outlook Data File. This preserves all connections to custom [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > ||| etc become > ||| invalid after an export/import? Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them. Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always a good idea to make a copy of your Outlook data file periodically, especially before you try to migrate your data. Migrating PST files has become one of the most arduous, cantankerous tasks in Outlook. It gets worse with each version. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Milly & Russ, > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> ||| etc become >> ||| invalid after an export/import? And with 2 versions of the .pst files out there, it promises to get worse rather than better. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | Unfortunately, once those links are broken, you can't recreate them. | Any chance you backed this file up before you renamed it? It's always [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] |||||| etc become |||||| invalid after an export/import? What do you mean by "2 versions of the .pst files out there..." Do you mean because I had two versions of my .PST file or do you mean that one version of outlook treats the PST file differently than another? If so, we are just further up that creek without a paddle. Thanks for the replies from you and Russ. > And with 2 versions of the .pst files out there, it promises to get worse > rather than better. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > |||||| etc become > |||||| invalid after an export/import? Milly was just agreeing with my contention that migrating PST data files from one version of Outlook to another has become a task that is so arduous and so poorly supported that few users will get it right. The fact that the default format for PST files changed from ANSI to UNICODE with Outlook 2003 makes a difficult task nearly impossible. It is a problem that Microsoft needs to address. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > What do you mean by "2 versions of the .pst files out there..." Do you > mean [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >> |||||| etc become >> |||||| invalid after an export/import? |
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