Comments on: How to Rename a .pst File (Without Corrupting the File) http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249 Tips & Tricks for using MS Outlook & other apps more efficiently Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:22:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Slim Memory http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249/comment-page-1#comment-178752 Slim Memory Tue, 18 May 2010 12:32:45 +0000 http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249#comment-178752 Thank you for sharing this information. I think it is useful for many clients. <strong>My pleasure. And thank you for taking the time to leave positive feed back - much appreciated! Please let me know if there are other topics we haven't covered yet that your clients would like find useful. Misty Thank you for sharing this information. I think it is useful for many clients.

My pleasure. And thank you for taking the time to leave positive feed back – much appreciated! Please let me know if there are other topics we haven’t covered yet that your clients would like find useful. Misty

]]> By: MistyKhan http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249/comment-page-1#comment-2441 MistyKhan Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:52:29 +0000 http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249#comment-2441 Robert, Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment! I'm sure this will help several other people going through the 2003 to 2007 upgrade pain! Robert,

Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment! I’m sure this will help several other people going through the 2003 to 2007 upgrade pain!

]]> By: Robert Banghart http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249/comment-page-1#comment-2394 Robert Banghart Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:49:35 +0000 http://arrow-tips.com/archives/249#comment-2394 Thanks for the tip Misty. My issues began when I installed Project 2007 on an all Office 2003 (including keeping Project 2003) on an XP Pro box. When Microsoft Updates installed Office 2007 SP1 it messed up something in the Office 2003 applications. Most of the issues were minor but it broke my Lookout, BCM, Outlook Personal Folders Backup and a couple other add-ins. I have come to really appreciate those three named applications and was getting edgy that I didn't have daily back-ups, couldn't use Lookout, and had no BCM menu or toolbar entries. I'm pretty knowledgeable about how to troubleshoot these kinds of things but I ran into several problems throughout the day. After insuring that I had a working copy of my .pst file on a Vista box running Office 2007, I tried to import a copy of the backed up BCM database (an .msbcm file). I never got past an access denied message because “me” on the Vista box wasn't the same as the “me” on the XP Pro box. At that point I did an uninstall of BCM on the XP box and then installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office 2003. Since my .pst is pushing 5 gigs it took a bit of time for the upgrade to be useable. After some false starts I had my Outlook 2007 running and imported the backup of my BCM data that the Vista box couldn’t use. Both BCM and Outlook Personal Folders Backup were working fine on the XP box. I tried to install Lookout but got a message that something else was preventing that from happening – probably Windows Desktop Search. I then updated that to v 3.01 so it will search Outlook. The next problem I had to solve was that my beautiful new install wouldn’t download my hotmail despite having done so for at least the past five years using the http protocol and add-in. After several attempts to try to get that to work and searching for a solution I decided to install the Windows Outlook Connection with uses MAPI instead of http. That worked. I then uninstalled the http account so I wouldn’t keep getting cryptic error messages about my mail being redirected. The last problem I solved dealt with the Vista box not having access to the backed up .msbcm file. I exported a copy of the .bcm file from my XP Pro box, copied it over to the Vista box, and imported it into BCM on that machine. Being a .bcm file and not being a .msbcm file got me around the issue of permissions and it loaded and worked perfectly. You probably know all this stuff but I figured I’d share my experience with you in case any of it helps you solve similar issues in the future. I’m always open to ideas that will improve my efficiency and that often means improvement in my utilization of Outlook. I subscribed to the tips and after I got your twit, I am now following you there. Thanks for the tip Misty. My issues began when I installed Project 2007 on an all Office 2003 (including keeping Project 2003) on an XP Pro box. When Microsoft Updates installed Office 2007 SP1 it messed up something in the Office 2003 applications. Most of the issues were minor but it broke my Lookout, BCM, Outlook Personal Folders Backup and a couple other add-ins.

I have come to really appreciate those three named applications and was getting edgy that I didn’t have daily back-ups, couldn’t use Lookout, and had no BCM menu or toolbar entries.

I’m pretty knowledgeable about how to troubleshoot these kinds of things but I ran into several problems throughout the day. After insuring that I had a working copy of my .pst file on a Vista box running Office 2007, I tried to import a copy of the backed up BCM database (an .msbcm file). I never got past an access denied message because “me” on the Vista box wasn’t the same as the “me” on the XP Pro box.

At that point I did an uninstall of BCM on the XP box and then installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office 2003. Since my .pst is pushing 5 gigs it took a bit of time for the upgrade to be useable. After some false starts I had my Outlook 2007 running and imported the backup of my BCM data that the Vista box couldn’t use. Both BCM and Outlook Personal Folders Backup were working fine on the XP box. I tried to install Lookout but got a message that something else was preventing that from happening – probably Windows Desktop Search. I then updated that to v 3.01 so it will search Outlook.

The next problem I had to solve was that my beautiful new install wouldn’t download my hotmail despite having done so for at least the past five years using the http protocol and add-in. After several attempts to try to get that to work and searching for a solution I decided to install the Windows Outlook Connection with uses MAPI instead of http. That worked. I then uninstalled the http account so I wouldn’t keep getting cryptic error messages about my mail being redirected.

The last problem I solved dealt with the Vista box not having access to the backed up .msbcm file. I exported a copy of the .bcm file from my XP Pro box, copied it over to the Vista box, and imported it into BCM on that machine. Being a .bcm file and not being a .msbcm file got me around the issue of permissions and it loaded and worked perfectly.

You probably know all this stuff but I figured I’d share my experience with you in case any of it helps you solve similar issues in the future.

I’m always open to ideas that will improve my efficiency and that often means improvement in my utilization of Outlook. I subscribed to the tips and after I got your twit, I am now following you there.

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