From: Gordon on

"Joel" <joelcrump(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I guess that's why I've done it that way multiple times, for a family
> member who actually uses Outlook for God knows what reason, and has
> changed computers multiple times, and it didn't "corrupt" anything.

Then you have been extraordinarily lucky.

From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on
> Ask your friend what dates ALL of his emails are set to now. Then ask he
> or she if he or she is happy with that.

Only the last modified date is changed when you import/export pst to pst.
Sent and received dates are not touched.

If you are moving from OE/Mail/Live mail and use Outlook's Import command,
then the received (and last mod) date is changed - use export from OE
instead.

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From: Leythos on
In article <e6GIWAa0KHA.364(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, okf22(a)hotmail.com
says...
> You were correct with your answer to the OP in the alt.group. Importing and
> Exporting will corrupt the files
>

No, he's not correct and it will not corrupt the files.

Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported
it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.

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From: Leythos on
In article <hp2avl$c77$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
aka(a)masked&anonymous.com.invalido says...
>
> Joel wrote:
> > Alias <aka(a)masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote:
> >
> >> I wonder what the good folks in microsoft.public.outlook think of this
> >> exporting/importing method.
> >
> >
> > I wonder why you care, Ubuntu toy-Linux-distro luser. I only answered
> > the OP to be helpful, since I loathe MS Office, even though I run
> > Windows, but happen to have done this for another person's computer.
> > It's funny how you'll stoop to spamming the Outlook NG just to troll
> > a.win7.gen.
> >
>
> You wanted proof and Peter gave it to you. If you can wait, I am sure
> that more Outlook experts will correct you as well. You hurling insults
> towards me and Ubuntu does nothing for your credibility except to reveal
> how desperate you are to be right.

If you were to have actually done this, as we can tell that Peter has
NOT done this, you would know that Export and Import work fine and
without corruption across the different versions of outlook.

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From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on
> Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported
> it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.

This is the perfect scenario for Importing.

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"Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message
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> In article <e6GIWAa0KHA.364(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, okf22(a)hotmail.com
> says...
>> You were correct with your answer to the OP in the alt.group. Importing
>> and
>> Exporting will corrupt the files
>>
>
> No, he's not correct and it will not corrupt the files.
>
> Just yesterday I exported Outlook 97 data, the entire tree, and imported
> it into Office 2007 and it worked perfectly.
>
> --
> 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.
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