[nflug] Offtopic: Read at your own peril.

[Cyber Source]

Not sure about the newer versions but Outlook from Office 2000 would 
make a backup *.pst file by default. I've used this before. Search 
through the old data for *.pst, I believe it will be called backup.pst, 
import that file and you should have all as it was.

Brad Bartram wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> First, sorry about the off topic post, but I know there's probably 
> some knowledge on the subject here, so I figured I'd give it a try.
>
> Here's my issue:
>
> A person I work with is using Outlook 2007 for his mail and personal 
> scheduling and address book and keeping his food cold, etc.  He 
> recently had his laptop crap out on him.  Long story short, we have a 
> new machine for him, but he wants to migrate his old settings and such 
> from his old harddrive image over to his new machine.  He has all his 
> old email in the form of a pst, as well as complete access to the old 
> drive including the registry.
>
> From my preliminary research, I found that outlook stores account 
> information in the registry (go figure).  His big concern is the email 
> filters he has set up to move his mail all around.  He has quite a 
> complex ruleset and isn't really looking forward to recreating it from 
> scratch - and neither do I, because I sit right next to him and it 
> just won't make my day pleasant.
>
> So does anyone here know where outlook 2007 stores the filter data?
>
> The only thing we don't have access to at this point is a running 
> machine with his native OS and Data on it, we're working from an 
> image, so I can't just fire up his old OS and run an export or 
> migration application or utility on it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
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