Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook 2000 & .pst file

Slightly different challenge - laptop stolen last week that was running
Microsoft Outlook 2000 and XP - I had burned a DVD backup that included a
..pst file backing up emails from Outlook 2000. Now have a new computer that
is running Vista with Windows Mail. Am running Vista with Microsoft Office
Professional 2000 and hence Microsoft Outlook 2000. Am I able to retrieve on
the one computer my .pst file to recover my email messages into Windows Mail
or do I need to upgrade my version of either Outlook or Office Professional?

OL needs to be installed on the Vista PC
Copy your pst file(s) from DVD to eg the Documents folder - do not ovewrite
any existing pst -
Check properties of the pst file to ensure the read only flag is off.
Start OL, File>Open>Personal Folders.......browse to the location of the pst
& open it
OL2k is not fully compatible with Vista, generally there will be a account
password problem, but there may be others.
You can then in Mail import msgs & addresses from OL

"StolenLaptopers" <StolenLaptopers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C2A39424-06AB-4121-8210-724C525E92E4@microsoft.com...
> Slightly different challenge - laptop stolen last week that was running
> Microsoft Outlook 2000 and XP - I had burned a DVD backup that included a
> .pst file backing up emails from Outlook 2000. Now have a new computer
> that
> is running Vista with Windows Mail. Am running Vista with Microsoft
> Office
> Professional 2000 and hence Microsoft Outlook 2000. Am I able to retrieve
> on
> the one computer my .pst file to recover my email messages into Windows
> Mail
> or do I need to upgrade my version of either Outlook or Office
> Professional?

Thanks, tried that and almost worked but came up against a slight problem.

Firstly for some reason have a trial version of OL2007 on my computer so
think that avoids any issues with OL2000 - opened OL2007 then opened the .pst
file and it recovered and downloaded all the emails in OL2007 - all looking
good at the moment.

Then opened up Windows Mail selected File -> Import -> Message and was asked
to select program/format that you want to import email from (4 choices).
Selected Microsoft Outlook and was then asked to choose a profile. There
were two profile names available:

Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings or
{xxxx123 - alphanumeric code}

Neither worked - when I selected Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings Windows
Mail automatically shut down and then restarted. When I selected the {xxx}
profile received message "Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI client.
An error has occurred"

Any suggestions on overcoming this problem - can see all my messages in
OL2007 just need to get them now into Windows Mail?


"DL" wrote:

> OL needs to be installed on the Vista PC
> Copy your pst file(s) from DVD to eg the Documents folder - do not ovewrite
> any existing pst -
> Check properties of the pst file to ensure the read only flag is off.
> Start OL, File>Open>Personal Folders.......browse to the location of the pst
> & open it
> OL2k is not fully compatible with Vista, generally there will be a account
> password problem, but there may be others.
> You can then in Mail import msgs & addresses from OL
>
> "StolenLaptopers" <StolenLaptopers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:C2A39424-06AB-4121-8210-724C525E92E4@microsoft.com...
> > Slightly different challenge - laptop stolen last week that was running
> > Microsoft Outlook 2000 and XP - I had burned a DVD backup that included a
> > .pst file backing up emails from Outlook 2000. Now have a new computer
> > that
> > is running Vista with Windows Mail. Am running Vista with Microsoft
> > Office
> > Professional 2000 and hence Microsoft Outlook 2000. Am I able to retrieve
> > on
> > the one computer my .pst file to recover my email messages into Windows
> > Mail
> > or do I need to upgrade my version of either Outlook or Office
> > Professional?
>
>
>

I dont actually use Mail
Using the Mail applet in the control panel , or via rt click on the OL
desktop shortcut, check what name the OL Profile has been given
The Mapi client referes to a Mapi type mail account, not a pop account

"StolenLaptopers" <StolenLaptopers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:64A44ABC-5B00-4C27-B232-1BD2A5D811A2@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, tried that and almost worked but came up against a slight problem.
>
> Firstly for some reason have a trial version of OL2007 on my computer so
> think that avoids any issues with OL2000 - opened OL2007 then opened the
> .pst
> file and it recovered and downloaded all the emails in OL2007 - all
> looking
> good at the moment.
>
> Then opened up Windows Mail selected File -> Import -> Message and was
> asked
> to select program/format that you want to import email from (4 choices).
> Selected Microsoft Outlook and was then asked to choose a profile. There
> were two profile names available:
>
> Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings or
> {xxxx123 - alphanumeric code}
>
> Neither worked - when I selected Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings
> Windows
> Mail automatically shut down and then restarted. When I selected the
> {xxx}
> profile received message "Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI
> client.
> An error has occurred"
>
> Any suggestions on overcoming this problem - can see all my messages in
> OL2007 just need to get them now into Windows Mail?
>
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> OL needs to be installed on the Vista PC
>> Copy your pst file(s) from DVD to eg the Documents folder - do not
>> ovewrite
>> any existing pst -
>> Check properties of the pst file to ensure the read only flag is off.
>> Start OL, File>Open>Personal Folders.......browse to the location of the
>> pst
>> & open it
>> OL2k is not fully compatible with Vista, generally there will be a
>> account
>> password problem, but there may be others.
>> You can then in Mail import msgs & addresses from OL
>>
>> "StolenLaptopers" <StolenLaptopers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:C2A39424-06AB-4121-8210-724C525E92E4@microsoft.com...
>> > Slightly different challenge - laptop stolen last week that was running
>> > Microsoft Outlook 2000 and XP - I had burned a DVD backup that included
>> > a
>> > .pst file backing up emails from Outlook 2000. Now have a new computer
>> > that
>> > is running Vista with Windows Mail. Am running Vista with Microsoft
>> > Office
>> > Professional 2000 and hence Microsoft Outlook 2000. Am I able to
>> > retrieve
>> > on
>> > the one computer my .pst file to recover my email messages into Windows
>> > Mail
>> > or do I need to upgrade my version of either Outlook or Office
>> > Professional?
>>
>>
>>