Help, Outlook update

[08FJR4ME]

Yeh I now Outlook sucks like warm cheese.

So when I updated to Office 2010 I lost all my old emails, address book and account information. I finally squared away the accounts and have them working. Is there any way to find all my old addresses and emails. Please don't tell me they have gone into the bottomless pit of cyberspace.

Dave

 

[SouthernCruizer]

Yeh I now Outlook sucks like warm cheese.
So when I updated to Office 2010 I lost all my old emails, address book and account information. I finally squared away the accounts and have them working. Is there any way to find all my old addresses and emails. Please don't tell me they have gone into the bottomless pit of cyberspace.

Dave

do a search of your hard drive for a *.pst file. What version of Outlook were you on before? Keep in mind, the pst file is a hidden file by default, so make sure you set your preferences to see all files. It is probably in your user-local-appdata-microsoft-outlook folder.

 

[David Foley]

I know it's not what you want to hear but since you are in the updating mood

go ahead and update to Office 365. Everything gets saved to the cloud. You'll never lose anything again - we promise!

 

[Bounce]

No don't.

UPGRADE to LibreOffice (the replacement for the no-longer updated OpenOffice). Access to MS Office files but without all the bloat... and keep your stuff on hard drives YOU control instead of the NSA.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

 

[David Foley]

Bounce - resistance to the borg is futile

 

[bluesdog]

+1 for libreoffice. I run this on my mbp, and it's the shiz, man!

 

[extrememarine]

As mentioned - hunt for the old PST file or files. That will have all of your old email, and you can connect to it in outlook.

 

[08FJR4ME]

Thanks to all for the info.

I am staying off the cloud until they pry this old keyboard from my dying hands.

Dave

 

[0Face]

No don't.
UPGRADE to LibreOffice (the replacement for the no-longer updated OpenOffice). Access to MS Office files but without all the bloat... and keep your stuff on hard drives YOU control instead of the NSA.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Will Libreoffice work with an exchange server? Contacts, calendars?

 

[Bounce]

Look and see. The link's in your quote.

Is it your PC or the company's? If the company's then you're handcuffed to their limitations.

 

[warprints]

No don't.
UPGRADE to LibreOffice (the replacement for the no-longer updated OpenOffice). Access to MS Office files but without all the bloat... and keep your stuff on hard drives YOU control instead of the NSA.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Yeah, just say "no" to cloud storage -- at least for anything sensitive or vital.

OpenOffice was last updated over a year ago. Latest LibreOffice update was yesterday. I don't believe LibreOffice has a contacts/e-mail/calendaring module similar to Outlook.

 

[0Face]

Look and see. The link's in your quote.
Is it your PC or the company's? If the company's then you're handcuffed to their limitations.

I thought if you worked with it you could save me the time. It doesn't look like it has an Outlook-like program.

Thanks though.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Thanks to all for the info.
I am staying off the cloud until they pry this old keyboard from my dying hands.

Dave

Sorry...if yer on the internet...the NSA has you right where they want you.

Who's that peeking over your shoulder.....

 

[Bounce]

Look and see. The link's in your quote.
Is it your PC or the company's? If the company's then you're handcuffed to their limitations.

I thought if you worked with it you could save me the time. It doesn't look like it has an Outlook-like program.

Thanks though.

i use it. i don't "work with it {in a corporate environment}"; which is all i can see as applicable for exchange servers. i have used it to salvage my customers (worked in IT) Office files that they thought were corrupted and MS Office wouldn't open. LibreOffice opened the files, saved them (new name) and then the customer could open the new file without losing their work.

 

[Old Guy]

While in Outlook, right-click "Personal Folders" at the top of your folder list.

Left-click "Data file properties" on that menu.

Click on the "Advanced" button, and that'll tell you where Outlook thinks the file should be. On Windows 7, it'll probably be "C:\Users\<User name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst"

I'm wondering if you may have inadvertently created a new profile. It's named "Outlook" by default, but it doesn't have to be.

Check it in Control Panel.

Close Outlook.

Go to Control Panel, click on "Mail", click "Show Profiles". Are there more than one? If so, under "Always use this profile" try selecting the other one.

Open Outlook.

Of course, I'm assuming you're on a Windows computer. If so, what verson?