outlook 2003 to windows mail

[Mineer]

hope someone can help, basically I have a very complex problem
my dads lap top gave in so we got a new one, now his emails on the on the old laptop
the old laptop is windows xp and used to run office 2003 all his work emails is on the old drive, and is of utmost importance
he is running windows 7 on the new laptop there is no office cos urm... one of his buddies installed the office 2003 so
now I need to know where on the drive is the old emails and how can I get them to on to the new laptop thanks

*ps I got an enclosure for the old drive already

 

[dabbler]

Do a search for *.pst files on the drive.

 

[bubbatentoe]

C:\Documents and Settings\Dad_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

 

[Mineer]

k got the file now what ?

 

[kilobits]

Hi...

I used Thunderbird once to do this... however, there is another method that might work..

Outlook 2007 email to Windows Live Mail easy guide
by indi on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | 23 Comments

Here’s a pretty easy guide to move your Outlook 2003/2007 email to Windows live mail (found in windows 7). As a background, I found plenty of guides for Outlook Express (which is actually easier) but very little for Outlook.

Instructions here... http://lookforitoverhere.com/276/outlook-2007-email-to-windows-live-mail-easy-guide/

 

[Mineer]

@kilobits thanks that worked like a charm, lol now my father is asking if its possible to get all his contacts also :twisted:

 

[Zarathustra]

Not sure about the contacts as they are contained within the Outlook PST file, so technically, it should be possible to extract them.

Read this thread (http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...ding-odd-one?p=6888966&highlight=#post6888966)

If nothing else, what you can do, is extract all the recently used contacts/auto complete contacts from the Outlook.NK2 file located on the old PC using http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html.

 

[kilobits]

@kilobits thanks that worked like a charm, lol now my father is asking if its possible to get all his contacts also :twisted:

Hmmmm... the contacts are a little tricky.

If you can still access Outlook on the old laptop, it would be the easiest to export the contacts / address book as a .csv file. This can then be easily imported into Windows Mail.

If not, then you might just have to install a trial version of Outlook to export them.

I will see if I can find another work-around. Outlook is alas a proprietary format so it is not a simple click and go option.

 

[Zarathustra]

@Mineer, you didn't mention what e-mail client he will be running on his new computer. I have been looking around & there appears to be a way to do it using Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/).

However, there is something which appears much easier using Google Apps:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration

So, you could:

1) Setup a GMail account
2) Use the Google utility to export the contacts & even e-mail to the GMail account.
3) Export the information required from GMail/Google Apps into a CSV file or something similar.
4) Import contacts etc. into Windows 7 e-mail client using the exported GMail/Google Apps file.

 

[kilobits]

Google Apps...

I had not even thought about that!

Thunderbird used to require Outlook to be installed before the import options become clickable... there also used to be a Thunderbird plug-in but if I remember correctly, it only worked up until 2.0 Thunderbird.

The Google Apps is a simple win.

@Mineer, you didn't mention what e-mail client he will be running on his new computer. I have been looking around & there appears to be a way to do it using Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/).

However, there is something which appears much easier using Google Apps:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration

So, you could:

1) Setup a GMail account
2) Use the Google utility to export the contacts & even e-mail to the GMail account.
3) Export the information required from GMail/Google Apps into a CSV file or something similar.
4) Import contacts etc. into Windows 7 e-mail client using the exported GMail/Google Apps file.

 

[Zarathustra]

As another option which may require a tad more effort:

- You can also download a free Micro$soft Office 2010 trial version (http://www7.buyoffice.microsoft.com...ntry_id=ZA&WT.mc_id=ODC_enZA_HomeBusiness_Try).
- Import the Outlook PST file.
- Export the Contacts as a CSV file
- Import into whatever you Windows 7 E-Mail client of choice is.
- Uninstall Micro$oft Office 2010

 

[kilobits]

The Google Outlook Migration you suggested tool is much much easier.

Simply install, input your gmail account settings / create a gmail account, select the .pst file, untick all except Outlook Contacts... and let it finish the migration / export to gmail... exit the integrator.

Log into your gmail account... click on gmail contacts... click on more, select export, select Outlook CSV, save file, import into Windows Mail.

Saves having to download a 650MB Outlook trial and installation etc.

So much easier PLUS you have them backed-up in your gmail account!

As another option which may require a tad more effort:

- You can also download a free Micro$soft Office 2010 trial version (http://www7.buyoffice.microsoft.com...ntry_id=ZA&WT.mc_id=ODC_enZA_HomeBusiness_Try).
- Import the Outlook PST file.
- Export the Contacts as a CSV file
- Import into whatever you Windows 7 E-Mail client of choice is.
- Uninstall Micro$oft Office 2010