NEED HELP SOON: Win7 Files & Settings Transfer Wiz & Office Outlook PST Mailboxes
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From: Russ Valentine on 2 Apr 2010 16:20 No. I wouldn't disagree. Exporting and importing work fine when users only want to transfer a _portion_ of the PST file and are simpler than copying and opening the entire PST just to transfer a small portion of the file. The problem comes when users try to use Export and Import to transfer their _entire_ PST File. That causes a corrupt profile because the profile cannot connect the address book service to the imported PST file (it thinks that property has already been set, but it hasn't). Also, things like rules, information stored in hidden messages, and distribution lists do not survive the import process. The majority of the problems that arise with export and import are end user error. -- Russ Valentine "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hp55c2$2g8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlookmvp(a)msn.com> wrote in message > news:#LFyROn0KHA.3652(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Corrupted profiles, yes... but remember, we only see the reports where it >> caused problems, not the millions of times it actually worked as >> expected. Done right, the profile will not corrupt. > > I think Russ Valentine, MVP would strongly disagree with you!
From: Russ Valentine on 2 Apr 2010 16:30 As if 10 years wasn't long enough, and I suddenly became stupid overnight? -- Russ Valentine "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlookmvp(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:ebo$mVp0KHA.752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > It's "former MVP". -- > Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
From: Leythos on 2 Apr 2010 16:41 In article <#bdXCZo0KHA.364(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com says... > > "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.261fe9949e37178a98a257(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > > > > > exporting disconnected Exchange cached Outlook data into a new exchange > > system.... not a single error/corruption. > > > because THAT is what the export function is designed for NOT same-pst to > same-pst. The fact that you haven't had any corruption is luck. There are > MANY posts in forums and the newsgroups where people HAVE had corruption by > importing. And you don't appear to know all of the conditions that they may have had, other than just wanting to export/import. As I've said, thousands of instances where I've done different and same and done it without a problem. I suspect that one of the major causes for those that have problems is malware or after fixing a malware compromised machine. All of the times I've done this, the machines were clean. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Leythos on 2 Apr 2010 16:44 In article <#GMBuHq0KHA.4412(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, russval(a)mvps.org says... > No. I wouldn't disagree. Exporting and importing work fine when users only > want to transfer a _portion_ of the PST file and are simpler than copying > and opening the entire PST just to transfer a small portion of the file. > In all the years, decade+, that I've been doing this I've only rarely had a reason to do part of a outlook export, it's (except for a dozen) be the entire outlook exported and then imported, into the same version or a newer version, and I've never had a corrupted PST, not once, never, nada, and I can't believe, after thousands of cases, that it's "Luck". -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Russ Valentine on 2 Apr 2010 17:19
No one ever said you corrupted a PST file, but you most certainly lost data. The luck was that it was data you happened not to need, such as Rules and Distribution Lists and links to Contacts and links to the Calendar and the links to the address book view. Others may want to preserve that information in their next installation. Exporting and importing the entire PST file to populate a new installation is simply a bad practice that should not be recommended. -- Russ Valentine "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.262021384ff1333798a259(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <#GMBuHq0KHA.4412(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, russval(a)mvps.org > says... >> No. I wouldn't disagree. Exporting and importing work fine when users >> only >> want to transfer a _portion_ of the PST file and are simpler than copying >> and opening the entire PST just to transfer a small portion of the file. >> > > In all the years, decade+, that I've been doing this I've only rarely > had a reason to do part of a outlook export, it's (except for a dozen) > be the entire outlook exported and then imported, into the same version > or a newer version, and I've never had a corrupted PST, not once, never, > nada, and I can't believe, after thousands of cases, that it's "Luck". > > -- > You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little > voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. > Trust yourself. > spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address) |