Outlook email backup question

Draeger

Draeger

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Hi,

A friend has a new laptop that she has been usng for about a week now. She has been getting her email through the new laptop for about the same amount of time.

Her old laptop has a lot of her previous email on it, right up until the week before she got the new laptop she was using the old one to send and receive email from her accounts.

Now, if I go and make a backup of her email on her old laptop and then restore it to her new laptop, will the email backed up from her old laptop "integrate" with the email for the same accounts on her new laptops Outlook or will restoring a backup of old email overwrite and wipe any of the email on her new laptop?.

Reading that back it looks as clear as mud. :p

I hope you understand what I am trying to ask/achieve. :cool:

Many thanks.
 
From personal experience I would recommend noting the size of the PST created as well, if it's over 2GB you may want to consider creating multiple pst files. Outlook does not handle 2GB+ pst files very well, and you may find it becomes sluggish and unresponsive with large ones - just my two pennies.
 
Thanks guys, appreciate it.

I am just firing up both lappys now to see what the score is with them, will post back in a bit. ;)
 
I realise this isn't the solution, but i've found a program caled Amic Email Backup which is free and i've recently used to backup all my email settings to migrate them to a new machine.

But as has already been suggested you can backup to a PST file. Then on the new laptop you could copy over the PST file then you can use the menus "File -> Open -> Outlook Data File" and open the PST file. It'll just appear under the personal folders as another mailbox and you can access all the mail there. Then if you really wanted, just drag and drop all the mail into the "newer" Inbox/mail folders.
 
You can export the whole lot from outlook into a PST. Contacts, calendar and all. When importing again it'll ask you if you want to import duplicates or replace duplicates. not that it'll matter if was you say is correct, but i'd click no to be safe and it should merge everything together nicely :)
 
Thank you folks for the info and advice.

And thanks for that link, nade. That prog could well be useful in future.

Everything backed up and transferred over now, although the folder structure she had employed in her old Outlook was all over the place so it made backing everything up "interesting". :p

I am always wary and a bit paranoid when it comes to backing things up like this, so not only did I use the "Export" option and the .PST files I also installed Genie Backup Manager and used that as a failsafe, just in case. :cool:
 
Cool. I've used that program to backup my other half's Outlook Express email/accounts/address book/rules.... everything to a single file. I then just installed the app on the other machine and restored it. I then used it for my Outlook 2003 email and worked great as well.

The only thing about OE was that it created a new profile when restoring, but just needed changing so the new profile was the default :)
 
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