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by peter.ellis

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User needed to migrate their old Lotus Organiser.OR4 contacts etc database to Outlook 2000. Outlook demanded that Organiser be installed first on the new machine. This was done. The files appeared to transfer satisfactorily but when Outlook was reopened afterwards, it locked up at the first attempt to look into contacts. Rebooted but same again.
Office 2000, Win 98SE, Lotus Organiser 97 GS, 128mb RAM, AMDK5. File size approx 8mb.

Anyone had this before please ?

Cheers

Peter

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by dklippert

Here is some information you might want to look at, if you haven?t seen it already. Type the Q number into the search box of technet.microsoft.com.

Unable to Import Lotus Organizer 97 GS Files

Q197444
?Outlook does not have a converter for Lotus Organizer 97 GS, and therefore does not support the .or4 file format.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, use either of the following methods:
- Export the data from Lotus Organizer by using the dBase format, and then import the dBase file into Outlook.
- Rename the .or4 file extension of the Organizer file to .or3, and then import the file.?
Lotus Organizer Conversion Issues

Q198137

by curlergirl

You don't specify how you did the conversion from Lotus to Outlook - did you use the Outlook converter? We've done this only once, and as I recall had problems with the Outlook converter for Lotus. I believe we ended up exporting from Lotus to a .txt or .csv file and then importing into Outlook from there. It required quite bit of grooming though, between export and import, because of differences between how Lotus stores info and how Outlook does. Hope this helps!

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