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xtremenorthwest
March 10th, 2007, 02:11 PM
About 6 months ago I backup office outlook 2003, now I want to import those file to my current office outlook 2003 without over writing the mail files I have now. How do I do that? So other words the new and the old files together as one.
This is how I back my files up
I export the registry settings from my current Outlook profiles subkey in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles
And copy the following folders from your current user profile directories. (this assumes your PST files are in the default Microsoft locations).
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook and %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook to the equivalent directories for your user on the new machine. Import the registry file on the new machine. Install (if necessary) and I launch Outlook on the new machine and I was good to go.

renegade600
March 11th, 2007, 08:45 AM
all I did was click on import in the new outlook, point to the older pst file and my email imported. Did not have to make any changes to registry or anything.

DonBB
March 13th, 2007, 05:55 PM
Yeah, check HERE (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070). No registry modifications.