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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / July 2006Loss of Contacts after leaving a domain and joining a workgroup
I am in a situation that I had to take a pc off a domain and make this stand alone thus joining a small simple workgroup. Domain called Portelli and workgroup called Portelli. Outlook was installed on the pc as a local stand alone appz all data in the local machine, under john.portelli.PORTELLI profile in Documents and Settings. After taking the pc off the domain, I joined the local workgroup 'PORTELLI' and now the new profile is called: john.portelli.JOHN (local pc name). I then transfered the outlook.pst from john.portelli.PORTELLI to the new workgroup profile and all emails do show however no contacts nor calendar are in the new profile??? there is no other address book (I Checked) No idea what happened??? has this happened before??? Any ideas??? Software Specs: Windows XP Pro, Outlook 2003. Thanks > I then transfered the outlook.pst from john.portelli.PORTELLI to the > new workgroup profile and all emails do show however no contacts nor > calendar are in the new profile??? there is no other address book (I > Checked) No idea what happened??? has this happened before??? Any > ideas??? Are you saying that if you open the Contacts folder it is empty? Describe exactly how you "transferred" the files.  SignatureBrian Tillman I copied the outlook.pst file under the old profile to the new profile. When I opened outlook after this the emails were there (inbox etc) but no contacts or calendar events.... Thanks Ron > > I then transfered the outlook.pst from john.portelli.PORTELLI to the > > new workgroup profile and all emails do show however no contacts nor [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Are you saying that if you open the Contacts folder it is empty? Describe > exactly how you "transferred" the files. > I copied the outlook.pst file under the old profile to the new > profile. When I opened outlook after this the emails were there > (inbox etc) but no contacts or calendar events.... Did you create a new mail profile in Control Panel and point it at the PST? Was Outlook open or closed when last you shot down before the change? SignatureBrian Tillman > > I copied the outlook.pst file under the old profile to the new > > profile. When I opened outlook after this the emails were there > > (inbox etc) but no contacts or calendar events.... > > Did you create a new mail profile in Control Panel and point it at the PST? > Was Outlook open or closed when last you shot down before the change? Ron > No I didn't, I copied the outlook.pst from the old profile and > pasted it in the new profile no setting up through control panel... > and outlook was definately closed before the pc was shut down. The Windows user profile and the Outlook Mail profile are separate. copying a PST from one Windows user profile to another does not affect the mail profile (which is a registry key) unless you overwrite a PST already being used by a mail profile, in which case you could corrupt the mail profile. Create a new mail profile in Control Panel's Mail applet and point it at the PST you wish to use. Let us know if that changes things. SignatureBrian Tillman |
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