Help with restoring and setting up Outlook 2019 please, Outlook Data File

gmayor · #1 02-07-2022, 10:23 PM

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.

ualdriver · #2 02-08-2022, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmayor

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.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Outlook 2019 Data from Hard Drive	VBorNotVB	Outlook	1	04-27-2020 12:48 PM
What's new in Word 2019, Excel 2019 and Outlook 2019 and Why upgrade to Office 2019 is recommended?	einfomail	Office	0	07-25-2019 11:49 AM
Outlook 2016/2019 can't read data file	Eekie64	Outlook	4	05-08-2019 06:14 PM
Restoring Outlook 2013 with just .pst files	Dude	Outlook	0	04-23-2018 06:11 AM
Open an outlook 2003 pst data-file from inside outlook 2010	pinholt	Outlook	2	11-10-2010 07:16 AM