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Restoring E-mail to Outlook 2003

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by jjd226 2 views

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I have a fellow employee who has a new computer, she wants the thousands of e-mail that she has amassed over about 3 years and to be moved to her new computer.

How would I move the Outlook 2003 profile to the new computer without losing any data? I did this a few weeks ago with Thunderbird, and it worked but it was a real pain moving everything, and even after replacing the profile I still had to move in the trash, and sent files into the programs one at a time.

I am not a Outlook user, and never really have been so this is something that I missed when recovering e-mails for myself. Does Microsoft make it easy to move a profile from one machine to another?

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by henry.sparks

It's actually incredibly easy to export e-mail in Outlook 2003.

1. Click File->Import and Export
2. Select "Export to a file", Click Next
3. Select "Personal Folder File(.ps)", Click Next
4. Select the top folder (either "Mailbox - Your Name" or "Personal Folders")
5. Check "Include subfolders", Click Next
6. Select a location where you want to copy the file to(make sure to put it somewhere you can find it), Click Finish.
7. A window will popup asking for encryption and to set a password (it's up to you if you want to or not), Click OK.
8. Now find the file you just made and copy it to the new computer.
9. Open Outlook on the new computer.
10. Click File->Import and Export.
11. Select "Import from another program or file", Click Next.
12. Select "Personal Folder File(.pst)", Click next.
13. Click browse and locate the file you just copied over, Click Next
14. Make sure the top folder is selected and "Include subfolders" is checked, Click Finish
15. Everything should have hopefully imported successfully.

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