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by alldtoys 2 views

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I need to completely wipe out my current OUTLOOK
calendar/contacts/etc. (XP PRO). I would like to replace it
with the data from a "clean copy" residing on a Win2k Pro
machine. (Both are running Office 2000). Can I do this
simply without having to do a re-install? Can I just rename
the Xp pst file to outlook.old and import the pst from
Win2k machine? If I just rename the xp pst file and don't
replace with the Win2k file,, do I then get the opportunity
to "start fresh" on the XP machine and redo Outlook from
scratch. Neither machine is on a Exchange server. Home /
small business network only with a new PDA that will synch
when the info is cleaned up.

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by eminent87

To do a fresh start in Outlook you do not need to reinstall outlook. What I would do in your case is to create another profile and then importing whatever you want into that new profile. After you are comfortable with the new profile, you can delete the old profile.

If you are using Outlook 2000 then go to your desktop and right click on the Outlook icon can choose "Properties." Then click on "Show Profiles..." and then choose add and create the new profile. After you created the new profile make sure you set "When starting Outlook, use this profile" to the profile you've just created.

You can delete the old profile from there too. Hope this helps!

by alldtoys

Thanks your answer helped me clarify my thinking on this. What I ended up doing, was to rename the original pst file as old, which did then give me the opportunity to "start fresh". I then used my freshly loaded PDA (from a synch with the Win2k machine) to synch & reload the outlook data to the XP machine.

by simy

You need to copy the pst file from the w2k machine to the xp machine and point outlook to it by going to file, open, outlook data file, and navigate to the w2k data file.

You can also start a fresh by creating a new data file by going to file, new, outlook data file and creating a new pst file.

All the best

by evkuo

Assuming that you're just using .pst files, a rename and copy should do fine (I prefer to rename and copy as opposed to copy over in case you need to go back).

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