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I have saved all of my old e-mail to a folder on our Windows 2000 server. We do not have an Exchange server I would like to transfer the contents of the folder to my new PC. How does one go about doing that?

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by dklippert

How did you save the e-mail. If you saved it as a PST file, you can use File>Open Personal Folders file. When it opens, you can drag and drop the mail into your new set up.

by jlewis

I did save my e-mail as a .pst file. The answer above does not give detail on where I am to be to drag and drop the mail to my new set up. If Outlook, Open Pers. Fold. is not an option. Is "Importing" a viable option.If so, please explain details.I have tried to open the folder where the e-mail is stored, but I get the msg that opening the .pst file may damage the OS. Is that true? Is there somewhere else on line that I might look?

by fatmann

Let me see if I understand what you are asking. You saved your e-mail (*.pst) on the server and want to transfer it to a new machine, right? Copy the pst off the server on to the new machine's desktop (top right) now right click on the outlook iconon the desktop, select properties add your service, I.E. internet mail, ms mail ect. After that click ok to close app. Again right click outlook\properties select add\personal folders. When it ask you to create a pst, drag it off the desktop and into the browser window and drop. This will “move” the pst to that dir. Now select your pst and say open. Finish configuring outlook. There might be slight differences to directions depending on what kind of service you are using. But in general that’s how you do it.

Hope this helps
fatmann

by shanghai sam

If it is the pst file you are refering to most probably you need to export it.Go to your Windows 2000 server.File/Import and Export/then select export to a file/select pst/select your archive file then /Save the file to your prefered directory.If the old and new pc is connected to the server suggest that the data is save at the server.To open it you can open it File/Open/pst then select the directory....Happy trying

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