Re: Outlook Express re-access & email retrieval. [message #300145]
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:02
f.h.muffman Messages: 3177 Registered: February 2007 Location: NULL
Senior Member
> I want to retrieve old emails from an Outlook Express folder saved
> from an old HDD.I have a new HDD with XP Office installed.Im a novice
> with computers!
For Outlook Express support, you'll want to ask in the
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general newsgroup.
Re: Outlook will only allow me to export from the archive folder [message #300146]
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:26
Pat Willener Messages: 1958 Registered: July 2006 Location: NULL
Senior Member
Where do you actually keep your contacts?
chris wrote:
> I am using outlook 2003 and when I try to export my contacts to a csv, the
> wizard is only bringing up my archive folder. The contacts folder is no
> where to be found. Can someone help me out?
Carol Messages: 63 Registered: July 2006 Location: NULL
Member
All of a sudden I am unable to receive messages. I can send them alright.
After speaking with my internet provider's tech support I was told that they
can see the messages on the server, but apparently my system is not trying to
receive them.
Outlook turns one time appts into recurring appts when the appoin. [message #300151]
Tue, 13 May 2008 01:02
adamdubas Messages: 1 Registered: May 2008 Location: NULL
Junior Member
Many times when I am inputting a task into outlook it automatically makes it
a recurring appointment when I save it. I am not sure why it is doing this
or how to stop it. Anyone have any clues?
Re: Outlook turns one time appts into recurring appts when the appoin. [message #300156]
Tue, 13 May 2008 01:19
f.h.muffman Messages: 3177 Registered: February 2007 Location: NULL
Senior Member
> Many times when I am inputting a task into outlook it automatically
> makes it a recurring appointment when I save it. I am not sure why it
> is doing this or how to stop it. Anyone have any clues?
Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs, uninstall OutlookAddin.
Re: ofc 2003 outlook unable delete copied docs on new unsent emai [message #300158]
Tue, 13 May 2008 01:49
FredHome Messages: 5 Registered: February 2008 Location: NULL
Junior Member
ok to answer your question
yes it happens only in outlook . it just started happening and I dont
know what triggered it. when i hit backspace it will detlete one character
only.. it started happening at about or at the same time as other things
went different in the way they acted then previous... I am trying to think
of an example but I am cmg up blank.. got one... previously when I created an
e-mail the and hit the "view" button it gave me different type of view
selections... I am sorry but I dont remember the selection names but one
would format the message in a different fomat from the other. there are
other things that are not the same but again I am pulling a blank ) it is 145
amed and i have been up since yesterday at 4 amedt so i think it best to
send this out and pick up on this conversation later on this morning after
some shut-eye.. i wil check back early Tuesday afternoon to see if you have
had time to read this... thanks
Fred/
"Roady [MVP]" wrote:
> And that's only in Outlook and not any other application? What happens when
> you press Backspace after making your selection or any other character on
> your keyboard?
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
> http://www.msoutlook.info/
> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>
> -----
>
> "Fred @ Home" <FredHome@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9085F305-BBE9-4135-A91A-93E62AF727F5@microsoft.com...
> > i find that when i drag my cursor over all or part of a document that i
> > had
> > recently copied into a newly created e-mail document (outlook 2003/word
> > 2003
> > email editor) and then decided i no longer wished to have that document
> > contained in whole or part of that e-mail it correctly highlights all
> > words
> > that i dragged over, but when i hit the "delete " key on my keyboard to
> > delete this highlighted and unwanted data, it does not delete...nothing
> > happens. i further checked that i can place my cursor on the first
> > character
> > of any word and click and i can then start deleting char by char and
> > that
> > works ok.. but it is inefficient, especially when i want to delete what
> > could
> > be hundreds/thousands of words in succession. this had worked fine less
> > than
> > a few days ago. but something happened and i dont know what.
> > i am using microsoft opffice 2003 with outlook 2003 e-mail and Word 2003
> > as
> > the editor. i would appreciate it very much if someone could tell me how
> > i
> > can restore the old method of dragging the cursor over to highlight and
> > then
> > just hitting the keyboard "delete" key.
> >
> > fred@home
>
Re: ofc 2003 outlook unable delete copied docs on new unsent emai [message #300163]
Tue, 13 May 2008 02:09
FredHome Messages: 5 Registered: February 2008 Location: NULL
Junior Member
one last bit of info before I turn in..
to give you and idea and an example of the problem
I create a new e-mail
I use these emails to save a forest.. I used to print stock prices and fund
performances on my printer. now I go to mymsn.com and there I have set up a
listing of stocks that i am interested in... after cob I go to mymsn.com and
copy and paste the listing of stocks with closing price and change etc. I
then paste that info into my e-mail. I then can select some of the entries
such as the DOW, AT&T and Verizon and that results in daily hourly graphs
and stats on these stocks or indices. I copy those and also paste them into
the e-mail.. I also go to FIDELITY sehre my 401k is invested and print a few
of the pages relative to that days changes.. (i have to do this after about
9 pmedt to get the closing data relative to various plans in am invested
in...all this goes into the same email and I use a date in the subject (eg:
today 20080513 COB TUESDAY ) followed by some key values that I put in for
each day... i then send this email to myself and when it comes into my inbox
i move it to a folder where all previous days data in sorted by the subject.
thats it in a nutshell. i no longer print many pages each night but
instead just go to that e-mail folder to see trends, etc.. I have plans on
putting it into an xcell spreadsheet but that has not happened yet.
now up to a week or so ago i could go into that email while i am building
it and just drag my cursor over anything and highlight it and then just hit
the delete key on my kbd and erase it..
i can no longer do that... and I dont know why...
i have gone into "help" and done a successful "detect and repair" and still
have the same problem.. i am wondering if i should mount my original disk and
do a "repair" of office 2003>>> ???
thats it... talk at you later...
"Roady [MVP]" wrote:
> And that's only in Outlook and not any other application? What happens when
> you press Backspace after making your selection or any other character on
> your keyboard?
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
> http://www.msoutlook.info/
> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>
> -----
>
> "Fred @ Home" <FredHome@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9085F305-BBE9-4135-A91A-93E62AF727F5@microsoft.com...
> > i find that when i drag my cursor over all or part of a document that i
> > had
> > recently copied into a newly created e-mail document (outlook 2003/word
> > 2003
> > email editor) and then decided i no longer wished to have that document
> > contained in whole or part of that e-mail it correctly highlights all
> > words
> > that i dragged over, but when i hit the "delete " key on my keyboard to
> > delete this highlighted and unwanted data, it does not delete...nothing
> > happens. i further checked that i can place my cursor on the first
> > character
> > of any word and click and i can then start deleting char by char and
> > that
> > works ok.. but it is inefficient, especially when i want to delete what
> > could
> > be hundreds/thousands of words in succession. this had worked fine less
> > than
> > a few days ago. but something happened and i dont know what.
> > i am using microsoft opffice 2003 with outlook 2003 e-mail and Word 2003
> > as
> > the editor. i would appreciate it very much if someone could tell me how
> > i
> > can restore the old method of dragging the cursor over to highlight and
> > then
> > just hitting the keyboard "delete" key.
> >
> > fred@home
>
I don't see what Outlook had to do with playing video. Outlook doesn't do
the video playback.
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
"rmleahey" <rmleahey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C2393364-B5E2-46E3-BC1F-F2AA9856488A@microsoft.com...
> Just switched from outlook express and XP to Vista and Outlook. The
> video's
> no longer download before playing, now they start and stop as it needs to
> download the next 10 seconds to play. can't see where I can tell it to
> buffer
> before trying to play. Using outlook because window's mail won't connect
> on
> either one of my Dell XPS 410's One came with Vista and I just upgraded
> the
> second one and neither works with mail but outlook connects just fine
> except
> for the video
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
Re: trouble with send/receive, extend.dat and related (?) issues [message #300167]
Tue, 13 May 2008 02:57
DL Messages: 2802 Registered: June 2006 Location: NULL
Senior Member
Next time you have an issue, use Task Manager & check running processess for
multiple instances of outlook.exe.
If there are such then the likely problem is a comm addin or other
application that is intergrated with OL
You might also want to post your version & the size of the data file
"Rick" <Rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4541C7B-FFFD-4AD0-85DE-FC6EA912F144@microsoft.com...
>I don't know if these issues are related or not, but I am having trouble
> sending or receiving. The issues are sporadic. Sometimes nothing will
> send
> or receive, and exiting and restarting the program fixes the problem. I
> also
> sometimes get the error that Outlook was not closed properly and it runs
> the
> scan of the folders, even though I did close Outlook properly. Finally, I
> sometimes get the message that the extend.dat file didn't initialize.
> Outlook seems to work ok nonetheless, but I usually restart just in case,
> and
> the error message does not come up the second time.
> Like I said, I don't know if these issues are related, and they don't
> necessarily happen at the same time. I have run detect and repair several
> times, but this does not correct the errors.
>
So here is my scenario. I have a friend who uses Outlook 2003 with his POP email. He had multiple contact lists. I took his Outlook "contacts" list and hit Ctrl + A to select all items, I then dragged those to a newly created folder called "archive contacts". Now all of the contacts are gone, they are in neither the original folder "contacts" or the new one I created "archive contacts". Anyway I can find his 2000+ contacts? Or am I screwed?
Hard to say at this level of information.
Got any error messages?
Does either folder indicate that there should be items in either the Status
Bar or Folder Size?
Note that when you make backups, you're never scr*wed.
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
"Chris A" <hokeyplayer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:OR7ojUMtIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> So here is my scenario. I have a friend who uses Outlook 2003 with his POP
> email. He had multiple contact lists. I took his Outlook "contacts" list
> and hit Ctrl + A to select all items, I then dragged those to a newly
> created folder called "archive contacts". Now all of the contacts are
> gone, they are in neither the original folder "contacts" or the new one I
> created "archive contacts". Anyway I can find his 2000+ contacts? Or am I
> screwed?
>
> Thanks in advance.
RE: Emails stay bold after reading [message #300170]
Tue, 13 May 2008 03:04
gspotts Messages: 9 Registered: April 2007 Location: NULL
Junior Member
Thanks,
I managed to get that far.
It does not appear to be a reading pane issue as no mater what configuration
I set the reading pane options to it makes no difference. After the e-mail is
read the header in the inbox stays bold
"Fred S" wrote:
> In Outlook 2007 go to Tools -> Options -> Other -> Reading Pane and check out
> the options listed. hope this helps.
>
> "gspotts" wrote:
>
> > I have set up a series of subfolders within the Inbox. When I have read the
> > e-mail it stays bold. I have checked in other, reading pane, only the second
> > & third box is ticked.
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> >
> > Graham
Re: .pst - not personal folders file? [message #300147]
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:27
Pat Willener Messages: 1958 Registered: July 2006 Location: NULL
Senior Member
have you tried to remove the read-only attribute that was set on the CD?
Would Rather Be Gaming wrote:
> I am having a difficulty with my Outlook.
>
> To start with:
>
> Six weeks ago, before I left my last job, I was using Outlook 2000, maybe
> 2003. I generated a .pst with all of my information. Stupidly, I forgot to
> check to make sure I could open the file on that same computer.
>
> I burned the file to a CD, took the CD home, then moved across the country
> (so I can't simply go back to my old job and ask to fix it).
>
> Now that I've got everything set up, I tried to open up my Outlook 2007 on
> my home computer and restore the information so I can get all of my old
> e-mail addresses. My problem is that when I attempt to open the file, I get
> this error: "The file C:\<path> is not a personal folders file."
>
> I have attempted
> File -> Open -> Outlook Data File.
> File -> Data File Management ... Add...
> File -> Import and Export -> From another program or file -> .pst ->
> path\filename
>
> Everything ends with the same error. The file is not "Read Only" and it is
> almost 70MB in size, so it has data - I just can't read it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
I double-checked that the file was not read only as soon as I put it on the
hard drive. When I started having errors, I went so far as to remove the read
only stats from the entire folder tree. I then made a copy and removed all
personal information (figured it couldn't hurt).
Still no luck. Thanks for the guess, though.
"Pat Willener" wrote:
> have you tried to remove the read-only attribute that was set on the CD?
>
> Would Rather Be Gaming wrote:
> > I am having a difficulty with my Outlook.
> >
> > To start with:
> >
> > Six weeks ago, before I left my last job, I was using Outlook 2000, maybe
> > 2003. I generated a .pst with all of my information. Stupidly, I forgot to
> > check to make sure I could open the file on that same computer.
> >
> > I burned the file to a CD, took the CD home, then moved across the country
> > (so I can't simply go back to my old job and ask to fix it).
> >
> > Now that I've got everything set up, I tried to open up my Outlook 2007 on
> > my home computer and restore the information so I can get all of my old
> > e-mail addresses. My problem is that when I attempt to open the file, I get
> > this error: "The file C:\<path> is not a personal folders file."
> >
> > I have attempted
> > File -> Open -> Outlook Data File.
> > File -> Data File Management ... Add...
> > File -> Import and Export -> From another program or file -> .pst ->
> > path\filename
> >
> > Everything ends with the same error. The file is not "Read Only" and it is
> > almost 70MB in size, so it has data - I just can't read it.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
>
Re: .pst - not personal folders file? [message #300164]
Tue, 13 May 2008 02:46
Pat Willener Messages: 1958 Registered: July 2006 Location: NULL
Senior Member
Can you try to run scanpst on the file? But if the file got damaged on
the way, there is a chance that you have lost all data.
P.S. Sorry, you already mentioned in your post that the file was not
read-only - I didn't read all the way to the end.
Would Rather Be Gaming wrote:
> I double-checked that the file was not read only as soon as I put it on the
> hard drive. When I started having errors, I went so far as to remove the read
> only stats from the entire folder tree. I then made a copy and removed all
> personal information (figured it couldn't hurt).
>
> Still no luck. Thanks for the guess, though.
>
> "Pat Willener" wrote:
>
>> have you tried to remove the read-only attribute that was set on the CD?
>>
>> Would Rather Be Gaming wrote:
>>> I am having a difficulty with my Outlook.
>>>
>>> To start with:
>>>
>>> Six weeks ago, before I left my last job, I was using Outlook 2000, maybe
>>> 2003. I generated a .pst with all of my information. Stupidly, I forgot to
>>> check to make sure I could open the file on that same computer.
>>>
>>> I burned the file to a CD, took the CD home, then moved across the country
>>> (so I can't simply go back to my old job and ask to fix it).
>>>
>>> Now that I've got everything set up, I tried to open up my Outlook 2007 on
>>> my home computer and restore the information so I can get all of my old
>>> e-mail addresses. My problem is that when I attempt to open the file, I get
>>> this error: "The file C:\<path> is not a personal folders file."
>>>
>>> I have attempted
>>> File -> Open -> Outlook Data File.
>>> File -> Data File Management ... Add...
>>> File -> Import and Export -> From another program or file -> .pst ->
>>> path\filename
>>>
>>> Everything ends with the same error. The file is not "Read Only" and it is
>>> almost 70MB in size, so it has data - I just can't read it.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
Re: .pst - not personal folders file? [message #300171]
Tue, 13 May 2008 03:06
DL Messages: 2802 Registered: June 2006 Location: NULL
Senior Member
If you previously used OL2003 then unless you have OL2003 or OL2007 on your
home PC the data file is of a different format & cannot be read by earlier
versions of OL
However if the versions are the same then unfortunately it would appear the
method used to create the data file was at fault, and only a recovery co.
might be able to help
"Would Rather Be Gaming" <WouldRatherBeGaming@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:EE2BBC40-432B-4FE5-BBEA-7B9C6CF52986@microsoft.com...
>I double-checked that the file was not read only as soon as I put it on the
> hard drive. When I started having errors, I went so far as to remove the
> read
> only stats from the entire folder tree. I then made a copy and removed all
> personal information (figured it couldn't hurt).
>
> Still no luck. Thanks for the guess, though.
>
> "Pat Willener" wrote:
>
>> have you tried to remove the read-only attribute that was set on the CD?
>>
>> Would Rather Be Gaming wrote:
>> > I am having a difficulty with my Outlook.
>> >
>> > To start with:
>> >
>> > Six weeks ago, before I left my last job, I was using Outlook 2000,
>> > maybe
>> > 2003. I generated a .pst with all of my information. Stupidly, I forgot
>> > to
>> > check to make sure I could open the file on that same computer.
>> >
>> > I burned the file to a CD, took the CD home, then moved across the
>> > country
>> > (so I can't simply go back to my old job and ask to fix it).
>> >
>> > Now that I've got everything set up, I tried to open up my Outlook 2007
>> > on
>> > my home computer and restore the information so I can get all of my old
>> > e-mail addresses. My problem is that when I attempt to open the file, I
>> > get
>> > this error: "The file C:\<path> is not a personal folders file."
>> >
>> > I have attempted
>> > File -> Open -> Outlook Data File.
>> > File -> Data File Management ... Add...
>> > File -> Import and Export -> From another program or file -> .pst ->
>> > path\filename
>> >
>> > Everything ends with the same error. The file is not "Read Only" and it
>> > is
>> > almost 70MB in size, so it has data - I just can't read it.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
>>
Re: From Outlook 2003 (pst) to (pst) 2007 [message #300154]
Tue, 13 May 2008 01:14
ritzput Messages: 18 Registered: June 2007 Location: NULL
Junior Member
I am trying to copy and past all my mail folders and contact lists (3) to new
laptop Vista Office 2007( old and new). I have copied and pasted pst folder
and actually ALL folders to new laptop from:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
When i open outlook on new laptop, only my mail got imported from inbox.
sent folder is empty and so are all my contacts. (i have 3 seperate contact
lists).
I have a portable hard drive that i use to export data from old to new.
What is the path i would use to copy and past my contacts from old to new? I
did copy and paste ALL files i saw in path above but still no contacts. I
have exported each individual pst folder and all contacts seperately as well
but when my old laptop crashed, my computer guy was able to copy and paste
everything back in so when i opened outlook, everything was there. i thought
there was a way to do this through c: prompt to copy and paste everything all
at once and NOT have to export each individual file to portable hard drive
which is what i'm now having to do.
Didn't you read any of the guides linked in the post you replied too?
They answer all your questions and tell you not to use import/export.
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
"ritzput" <ritzput@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01716C83-CF60-46F8-8416-A84422DFB309@microsoft.com...
> I am trying to copy and past all my mail folders and contact lists (3) to
> new
> laptop Vista Office 2007( old and new). I have copied and pasted pst
> folder
> and actually ALL folders to new laptop from:
> C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
>
> When i open outlook on new laptop, only my mail got imported from inbox.
> sent folder is empty and so are all my contacts. (i have 3 seperate
> contact
> lists).
>
> I have a portable hard drive that i use to export data from old to new.
> What is the path i would use to copy and past my contacts from old to new?
> I
> did copy and paste ALL files i saw in path above but still no contacts. I
> have exported each individual pst folder and all contacts seperately as
> well
> but when my old laptop crashed, my computer guy was able to copy and paste
> everything back in so when i opened outlook, everything was there. i
> thought
> there was a way to do this through c: prompt to copy and paste everything
> all
> at once and NOT have to export each individual file to portable hard drive
> which is what i'm now having to do.
>
> do you know if this is possible?
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> The correct method for transferring Outlook data has not changed with
>> Outlook 2007. Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data
>> transfer:
>> http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
>> http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
>> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033. aspx
>>
>>
>> --
>> Russ Valentine
>> [MVP-Outlook]
>> "Nuno" <Nuno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C4F4F545-918E-41F0-9277-1E6B275A6A4F@microsoft.com...
>> > Just need to know how to transfer my pst Outlook2003 to Outlook2007. I
>> > have a
>> > great amount of (important) data that can not afford to let behind. If
>> > I
>> > can't do this,then is not wise for me and others to upgrade to
>> > Outlook2007.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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