Resolved create a new default pst in Outlook 2007

I need to get rid of an incomplete default pst that I accidentally created, and start a new one that is complete.

Here's what happened: I'm setting up a second xp machine with Outlook 2007. copied outlook express (OE6) identity file (2.66 gig) from the first XP machine onto second xp machine. set up the ISP account in OE6 with pop and smpt settings to test server connection. tested fine, it brought in a a few months worth of emails from the server. inbox only.

Then set up Outlook 2007 mail account. Setup asked if I wanted to import from OE, BUT didn't ask me for a store file.

I chose yes, waiting for option to select the "identity" store file I had waiting. Instead, setup went to the active OE6 account I had just tested, and pulled in all the inbox emails from OE6. Now I had a pst in Outlook 2007 with an inbox and every other folder was empty.

Went back into OE6 and imported the full identity file into OE6 with all folders: inbox, sent folder, sub-folders, etc. NOW, I want to "re-import" into Outlook 2007 from OE6, but I don't want all the inbox duplicates. So I went into Outlook, clicked on import, it offers to import from OE, but does not give the option to avoid duplicates, nor does it give the option to select store files!

All right. I went back into Outlook 2007, thinking if I created a new new account, I would be able to import the full mail box from OE6 into the new account. Once I had everything in the new account, I could delete the old account.

New account is created (same server & password specs, different account name), but I can't find a way to open that account, can't find a way in. I have set up the prompt to ask which account to open, but it only offers one option to open: the original account.

Can someone help me out of this dilemma with a suggestion or two? Is there a way to import individual OE dbx store files into Outlook? Should I just delete all the emails in Outlook 2007 and re-import everything from OE6 which is now complete?

 

solved: create a new default pst in Outlook 2007 (workaround)

http://www.vaita.com/odir.asp

I've been working on this for half the day. I had tried a number of times to import messages into Outlook selectively, without success. I was getting a headache's worth of duplicates. I imported the address book into OE6 from the wab store file I had put on the new machine, and thought I would try importing the addresses into Outlook Contacts from the new addresses in OE6.

I found that Outlook would import the address book from OE6 while giving a user option to avoid duplicate addresses/names "“ this, from the "contacts" menu in Outlook. I also saw an option on that same menu to import "messages." so, after completing the import of addresses into Outlook I went ahead and imported the "messages" from OE6 into Outlook, hoping that I could select "avoid duplicates" like the address imports. (these were the messages that I had already loaded this morning from the identity file off the first machine). I watched it import the sent and deleted folders, and all the subfolders. When it got to the inbox again, I tried to stop the process which stubbornly insisted on doing its own thing until I brought up task manager and killed it. LOTS and Lots of duplicates.

So I went looking for how to get rid of duplicates in Outlook. I found and downloaded a free program, ODIR (Outlook Duplicate Item Remover). I scanned the file before installing the program to make sure it was clean.

Once installed, it creates a tool bar menu item called ODIR (just before the Help button on the menu toolbar). When you click on the ODIR menu item, it offers one option: "Remove duplicate itemsâ€

When you click on that button, a window pops up showing all the folders listed in your personal folder list. In that window I highlighted the inbox (3977 items), and then clicked on the button at the bottom of the window "Remove Duplicate Itemsâ€

A progress bar shows the removal of the duplicates into another folder. The program creates a subfolder called ODIR_Duplicate_Items, directly under the folder you selected, so nothing is deleted, just segregated into another folder. This subfolder contains all the duplicate(s) of items that were removed from the original folder.

I did a random check to make sure that any particular item in the duplicate folder still had a single occurrence in the original folder. When I was satisfied, I deleted the subfolder, removing 2694 emails "“ most of the emails in the inbox had 3 instances from my various aborted attempts at selective importing by Outlook.

There were 1283 emails left in Outlook’s inbox, which was slightly more than the 1269 in the OE6. However I had disabled OE6 from the server earlier in the day. Outlook had remained connected and continued to import the daily ration. The date ranges both matched as well.

I tested this again on the Junk mail folder, which was much smaller, and it performed very well.

Program promo says that it works on duplicate contacts, notes and calendar entries, but I haven’t tried those options, so can’t endorse them from experience; however, I’m very pleased with how this little freebie find took care of the mess I had.
Again: the link is http://www.vaita.com/odir.asp