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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2005creating a pst file and importing
We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I have exported the data as csv files and would like to import them into a trial pst file to make sure it is all going to work. If it does, I would like to substitute the existing pst file (pretty much empty) with the new one that I have created, which will have their data. I am playing around with this on my workstation and I can create a new pst file, but it does not have a Contacts folder. If I manually create one, it is treated as a mail folder, with the wrong fields when I go to import it. How does one create a bona fide Contacts folder in a new pst file? > We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued > contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > How does one create a bona fide Contacts folder in a new pst file? An update: I did manage to get to a point where I could create a new Contacts folder in this new pst, but it wasn't pretty. I had to shut down Outlook, move my personal pst file into another folder so that the new pst file was the only one in the default folder location was the new pst file. After the expected "can't find.... pst" and pointing it to the new one, it came up and had an empty Contacts folder. Is there a more elegant way to do it? Whenever you create a new folder, the dialog box should have a dropdown box that allows you what type of items should go in that folder -- you must have chosen "Mail and Post Items" (the default) instead of "Contact Items".  SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > > We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued > > contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Is there a more elegant way to do it? > Whenever you create a new folder, the dialog box should have a dropdown box > that allows you what type of items should go in that folder -- you must have > chosen "Mail and Post Items" (the default) instead of "Contact Items". Already tried that - got an error message that basically says that Contact Items cannot be used for that folder. When it was in this state, the only folder that was displaying under the new pst parent folder was Deleted Items - Contacts was not the only folder missing. At any rate, it is working differently for some reason this morning - I can now display both my default pst and the new one at the same time, and all of the expected folders are showing under the new pst folder. Wierd. > > > We have a customer that would like to migrate from a discontinued > > > contact/appointment manager program into a shared copy of Outlook 2003. I [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > Is there a more elegant way to do it?
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