How to retrieve personal folder?

How to retrieve personal folder?

On my new Mac powerbook running system 10.3.9, there was a brief period when
I was forced by an employer to use Outlook 2001 under Classic to connect to
their corporate server. During that time, my Outlook Personal Folder
accumulated 21MB of files, on my hard drive.

I've left that company and am no longer able to access their Exchange
Server.  

But when I try to launch Outlook under Classic, to look acccess all those
files in my personal folder, Outlook won't start; it refuses to run if it
can't connect to the exchange server...even if I configure it to "work
offline".

So how do I get Outlook to launch (without an Exchange Server connection)?
How do I get access to the contents of my old Outlook Public Folder, and how
can I get all those emails transferred into Entourage where I can view them?

date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:00:23 -0500 author: JustSomeGuy

Re: How to retrieve personal folder?

In article <BFF70DF7.4CA3%JustSomeGuy@twcny.rr.com>,
 JustSomeGuy  wrote:

> So how do I get Outlook to launch (without an Exchange Server connection)?
> How do I get access to the contents of my old Outlook Public Folder, and how
> can I get all those emails transferred into Entourage where I can view them?

You're looking for the PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 for Mac. You 
can download it from 
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
ownload/office2004/pstimport.xml&secid=4&ssid=15&flgnosysreq=True>.

Hope this helps! bill
-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)

date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:17:56 -0600 author: William Smith

Re: How to retrieve personal folder?

Bill, YOU DE MAN!  Thanks so much!


On 06/01/20 10:17 PM, in article
mecklists-2839A9.21175520012006@msnews.microsoft.com, "William Smith"
 wrote:

> In article <BFF70DF7.4CA3%JustSomeGuy@twcny.rr.com>,
>  JustSomeGuy  wrote:
> 
>> So how do I get Outlook to launch (without an Exchange Server connection)?
>> How do I get access to the contents of my old Outlook Public Folder, and how
>> can I get all those emails transferred into Entourage where I can view them?
> 
> You're looking for the PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 for Mac. You
> can download it from
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
> ownload/office2004/pstimport.xml&secid=4&ssid=15&flgnosysreq=True>.
> 
> Hope this helps! bill

date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:11:18 -0500 author: JustSomeGuy

Re: How to retrieve personal folder?

Hello, I'm preparing to move all of my Mac Outlook 2001 users to Entourage 
2004. Most of these people have 5 or so years worth of data stored in many 
different personal folders which we store on a server. I have not used this 
pst import tool so I wanted to ask what if any problems have been 
encountered? Also, with Entourage 2004, will I be able to set up the client 
so that they can still access personal folders from a server? Thank you for 
any advice.

Jen

"William Smith"  wrote in message 
news:mecklists-2839A9.21175520012006@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <BFF70DF7.4CA3%JustSomeGuy@twcny.rr.com>,
> JustSomeGuy  wrote:
>
>> So how do I get Outlook to launch (without an Exchange Server 
>> connection)?
>> How do I get access to the contents of my old Outlook Public Folder, and 
>> how
>> can I get all those emails transferred into Entourage where I can view 
>> them?
>
> You're looking for the PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 for Mac. You
> can download it from
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
> ownload/office2004/pstimport.xml&secid=4&ssid=15&flgnosysreq=True>.
>
> Hope this helps! bill
> -- 
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP)

date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:46:20 -0500 author: Jen

Re: How to retrieve personal folder?

In article ,
 "Jen"  wrote:

> Hello, I'm preparing to move all of my Mac Outlook 2001 users to Entourage 
> 2004. Most of these people have 5 or so years worth of data stored in many 
> different personal folders which we store on a server. I have not used this 
> pst import tool so I wanted to ask what if any problems have been 
> encountered? Also, with Entourage 2004, will I be able to set up the client 
> so that they can still access personal folders from a server? Thank you for 
> any advice.

Hi Jen!

I don't have any record of problems with the import, but keep in mind 
that your original Outlook 2001 .pst files aren't being converted. If 
something goes wrong, your original data isn't touched. (Of course, you 
can always dupe your .pst files before importing just in case.)

Entourage does not support .pst files but it does have the ability to 
allow you to drag messages from your Exchange account into folders under 
the "On My Computer" account. This is in effect archiving your messages 
locally and off the server. However, you don't have the ability to open 
multiple personal folder files or the ability to close them and pass 
them along to someone else as you would with .pst files.

Hope this helps! bill
-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:05:25 -0600 author: William Smith

Re: How to retrieve personal folder?

Hi and thanks for the reply. I used the PST import tool and then was able to 
take the identies folder and put that on the home server . Remove the folder 
from the local drive, create an alias to the one I copied to the server and 
put the alias back in its place and this allowed me to store my "pst" on the 
home server as we do with other Outlook clients. I also thought that perhaps 
putting them into public folders and locking them down for each user. That 
way they don't count against the message store and are accessible from 
either platform. Mac or pc.

Jen


"William Smith"  wrote in message 
news:mecklists-D78258.22052510022006@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article ,
> "Jen"  wrote:
>
>> Hello, I'm preparing to move all of my Mac Outlook 2001 users to 
>> Entourage
>> 2004. Most of these people have 5 or so years worth of data stored in 
>> many
>> different personal folders which we store on a server. I have not used 
>> this
>> pst import tool so I wanted to ask what if any problems have been
>> encountered? Also, with Entourage 2004, will I be able to set up the 
>> client
>> so that they can still access personal folders from a server? Thank you 
>> for
>> any advice.
>
> Hi Jen!
>
> I don't have any record of problems with the import, but keep in mind
> that your original Outlook 2001 .pst files aren't being converted. If
> something goes wrong, your original data isn't touched. (Of course, you
> can always dupe your .pst files before importing just in case.)
>
> Entourage does not support .pst files but it does have the ability to
> allow you to drag messages from your Exchange account into folders under
> the "On My Computer" account. This is in effect archiving your messages
> locally and off the server. However, you don't have the ability to open
> multiple personal folder files or the ability to close them and pass
> them along to someone else as you would with .pst files.
>
> Hope this helps! bill
> -- 
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:45:02 -0500 author: Jen