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Diane Poremsky's articles on Slipstick are stupendous, but I'm still stumped. What I want to do is complicated.
I want to set up Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine FOR THE FIRST TIME and have it connect to my two existing email accounts as IMAP. However, I also want to bring in a large .pst file from Outlook 2003 on an XP computer that has many years of emails FROM THE SAME TWO EMAIL ACCOUNTS, to which I have been connecting as POP3 (with "Leave copy of messages on server" always checked). That old .pst file has an email folder setup that I like (including Inbox and Sent but many other folders), which appears on the left side of my Outlook 2003.
Ideally, when I'm done, in my new Outlook in Office 365, I will see the identical email folder setup as before, all my old emails will be there in the same folders (including relatively recent emails in Inbox and Sent), new incoming emails will appear at the top of "Inbox", and new outgoing emails will appear at the top of "Sent". Also ideally, in my new Outlook in Office 365, there will be only one Inbox and one Sent with both old and new emails in each, but all my other folders (with only older emails) will also be there.
In other words, how do I wave a magic wand to transform my good setup in Outlook 2003 on XP into the same setup (without losing any old emails) on Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine AND from this day forward connect to my two existing emails accounts as IMAP and no longer POP3.
To make matters a bit more complicated, as will probably be familar to you, two weeks ago, when I first turned on Outlook in Office 365 Home on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine to take a look, it was very pushy about using its Wizard immediately to connect to Outlook.com or - at a minimum - some other existing email account. I blundered into that (WITHOUT connecting to my two important email accounts), but I have since used Control Panel - Mail to delete the resulting Email Account, Data Files and Profiles (although Profiles now shows "Outlook" as an existing Profile).
I have also gone into C:\Users\[MyName[\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and renamed the new Autodiscover file as ".old",
and gone into C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents\Outlook Files and renamed the unwanted new .pst files as ".old".
I have NOT yet changed or deleted the .srs or .xml files in C:\Users\[MyName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook but could certainly do so.
Also, in C:\Users\[MyName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache, there are numerous files from two weeks ago that start with "Stream_", but I have not touched them.
SO - HOW SHOULD I PROCEED TO TRY TO DO WHAT I WANT?
(Here is a little more history, but I don't think it's relevant anymore: Until two weeks ago, I had been using exclusively Outlook EXPRESS 6 on my XP machine, and it was great. I also had Office 2003 on that machine, but I had NEVER used its Outlook 2003. To prepare for my intended move to Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine, I first fired up that Outlook 2003 on the XP machine and -- following Diane's advice here -- I EXPORTED everything from Outlook EXPRESS 6 to Outlook 2003 on the XP machine, still as POP3. That went beautifully, Outlook 2003 is working seamlessly with all my same old folders, and so I succeeded in converting all my old, numerous .dbx files from Outlook EXPRESS 6 into one large .pst file in Outlook 2003. I also moved over my contacts from Outlook EXPRESS 6 to Outlook 2003. All of this so far has stayed POP3. It is that resulting good .pst file that I want to "merge" into a new setup for Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine with the same two external email accounts as always but now as IMAP not POP3.)
Simple, yes? Thanks.
I want to set up Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine FOR THE FIRST TIME and have it connect to my two existing email accounts as IMAP. However, I also want to bring in a large .pst file from Outlook 2003 on an XP computer that has many years of emails FROM THE SAME TWO EMAIL ACCOUNTS, to which I have been connecting as POP3 (with "Leave copy of messages on server" always checked). That old .pst file has an email folder setup that I like (including Inbox and Sent but many other folders), which appears on the left side of my Outlook 2003.
Ideally, when I'm done, in my new Outlook in Office 365, I will see the identical email folder setup as before, all my old emails will be there in the same folders (including relatively recent emails in Inbox and Sent), new incoming emails will appear at the top of "Inbox", and new outgoing emails will appear at the top of "Sent". Also ideally, in my new Outlook in Office 365, there will be only one Inbox and one Sent with both old and new emails in each, but all my other folders (with only older emails) will also be there.
In other words, how do I wave a magic wand to transform my good setup in Outlook 2003 on XP into the same setup (without losing any old emails) on Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine AND from this day forward connect to my two existing emails accounts as IMAP and no longer POP3.
To make matters a bit more complicated, as will probably be familar to you, two weeks ago, when I first turned on Outlook in Office 365 Home on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine to take a look, it was very pushy about using its Wizard immediately to connect to Outlook.com or - at a minimum - some other existing email account. I blundered into that (WITHOUT connecting to my two important email accounts), but I have since used Control Panel - Mail to delete the resulting Email Account, Data Files and Profiles (although Profiles now shows "Outlook" as an existing Profile).
I have also gone into C:\Users\[MyName[\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and renamed the new Autodiscover file as ".old",
and gone into C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents\Outlook Files and renamed the unwanted new .pst files as ".old".
I have NOT yet changed or deleted the .srs or .xml files in C:\Users\[MyName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook but could certainly do so.
Also, in C:\Users\[MyName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache, there are numerous files from two weeks ago that start with "Stream_", but I have not touched them.
SO - HOW SHOULD I PROCEED TO TRY TO DO WHAT I WANT?
(Here is a little more history, but I don't think it's relevant anymore: Until two weeks ago, I had been using exclusively Outlook EXPRESS 6 on my XP machine, and it was great. I also had Office 2003 on that machine, but I had NEVER used its Outlook 2003. To prepare for my intended move to Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine, I first fired up that Outlook 2003 on the XP machine and -- following Diane's advice here -- I EXPORTED everything from Outlook EXPRESS 6 to Outlook 2003 on the XP machine, still as POP3. That went beautifully, Outlook 2003 is working seamlessly with all my same old folders, and so I succeeded in converting all my old, numerous .dbx files from Outlook EXPRESS 6 into one large .pst file in Outlook 2003. I also moved over my contacts from Outlook EXPRESS 6 to Outlook 2003. All of this so far has stayed POP3. It is that resulting good .pst file that I want to "merge" into a new setup for Outlook in Office 365 Home 64-bit on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine with the same two external email accounts as always but now as IMAP not POP3.)
Simple, yes? Thanks.
