[nflug] Offtopic: Read at your own peril.

[Cyber Source]

If you can find that *.pst file, you'll save yourself tons of time and agro.

Brad Bartram wrote:
> From my research, I've found that Outlook2007 has things thrown all 
> over the place in various files and registry settings and keys.  Right 
> now I have two things going on, I've figured out the registry keys 
> being used, so I'm hacking them into the current system.  I'm also 
> imaging the entire drive for a vmware virtual machine.
>
> I'll see how these things work.
>
> I'll post a result as something happens so everyone can stop anxiously 
> holding their breath in anticipation.  ;-)
>
> Brad
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 12:20 PM, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com 
> <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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