Thread: Help with restoring and setting up Outlook 2019 please, Outlook Data File
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Old 02-08-2022, 08:29 AM
ualdriver ualdriver is offline Windows 11 Office 2019
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Originally Posted by gmayor View Post
Rather than 'import' the PST files you should have simply opened them. Then you should have made "Outlook Data File" the default data file (File > Account Settings) and deleted the new file that Outlook would have created when you installed it. If you still have the originals. Close all the files except the default one. Close Outlook. Replace the data files with the originals then re-open Outlook and open the files again.
OK, thanks. I thought since I "exported" from 2016 Outlook to create the .pst files I should have "imported" them into Outlook 2019 to regain them in the new software. I guess I messed that up.

Thanks for your answer. I'll give that a try.
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