In edition you would be best advised to create a new data file, in the new
unicode format (the default for OL2003/07) set it as default and if
neccessary copy data from your old pst to this - The new format is
apparently more robust and doesnt have the size limitation.
NB do NOT import, unless you want to lose settings & more
<karensundq@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My laptop died, so I took my backup of my outlook PST file (I believe
> it is in 2002 format) and copied it to my new laptop. I installed
> Outlook 2007, configured a profile and added the backed-up PST file. I
> set it as the default file and then restarted Outlook and removed the
> empty outlook.pst file.
>
> My server is POP3
>
> In the past I had set the option "leave a copy of messages on the
> server" so that I can read emails from the web or from outlook. Now I
> have 10,000 emails.
>
> My problem is that Outlook 2007 is attempting to download all 10,000
> emails from the server again. It seems to have lost track of which
> emails it has already downloaded despite having the old PST file
> attached. If I let it download all 10,000 emails, I think it will work
> and continue OK but it will take a while and I will have 10,000
> duplicates to clean up.
>
> I have tried removing and re-adding my profile and removing and re-
> adding the pst file but all to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Karen
>