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Theodore Stathopoulos
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9 February 2010
Dear friends,
No matter how strange or unbelievable it may seem to you, I have been using Microsoft Office 97 since the day it was released and for 13 years until now. It worked fine both on my old computer running Windows 95 OSR 2 as well as on my new computer running Windows XP Professional SP3.
However, a few days ago, I formatted my hard disk, installed Windows XP Professional SP3 from scratch and instead of the outdated Office 97, I downloaded and installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta which works fine.
The problem now is that I have an Outlook 97 archive Messages.pst file which contains very important messages I do need for my work and I tried to extract the files by trying to open it into Outlook 2010. For this purpose I go to the backstage of Office 2010 by clicking the file tab. I then click Open and subsequently Open an Outlook Data File (.pst) in order to open the Outlook 97 Messages.pst archive file. However, when I select this .pst file and click the Open button in the Open Outlook Data File dialogue box, the following message pops up:
"You are about to add a non-Unicode capable store to your profile. This store should not be used to store multilingual Unicode data. Do you want to continue?"
I click OK and then an account bearing the name of the .pst file, in this particular case Messages, is created in Outlook 2010 but it contains only an empty "Deleted" folder and the messages of the Outlook 97 Messages.pst archive file for some unknown reason fail to be extracted in this way.
Is is probably just because Outlook 97 is so old compared to Outlook 2010 that opening its archive .pst files into Outlook 2010 is not supported? I wonder. And most important: How could I extract the messages from this Outlook 97 .pst file?
It should be noted that I have the Microsoft Office 97 installation CD-ROM and I am now thinking that a possible solution might be to also install Outlook 97 on my system and use it to only extract the messages but, on the other hand, I am not sure that this installation will not cause any damage to the properly functioning Outlook 2010 and therefore I am afraid to do so unless someone who knows the matter much better than me can assure me that there will be no problems.
And anyway, in which other ways, especially if the additional installation of Outlook 97 is not safe for my system, would it be possible to have these important messages extracted from this Outlook 97 archive .pst file?
I should finally also note here that my Outlook 97 was part of the Greek language version of Office 97 and that I had Word as my e-mail editor.
Is there anything I can do to extract the messages? Please help!
I would greatly appreciate a quick reply.
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Dear friends,
No matter how strange or unbelievable it may seem to you, I have been using Microsoft Office 97 since the day it was released and for 13 years until now. It worked fine both on my old computer running Windows 95 OSR 2 as well as on my new computer running Windows XP Professional SP3.
However, a few days ago, I formatted my hard disk, installed Windows XP Professional SP3 from scratch and instead of the outdated Office 97, I downloaded and installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta which works fine.
The problem now is that I have an Outlook 97 archive Messages.pst file which contains very important messages I do need for my work and I tried to extract the files by trying to open it into Outlook 2010. For this purpose I go to the backstage of Office 2010 by clicking the file tab. I then click Open and subsequently Open an Outlook Data File (.pst) in order to open the Outlook 97 Messages.pst archive file. However, when I select this .pst file and click the Open button in the Open Outlook Data File dialogue box, the following message pops up:
"You are about to add a non-Unicode capable store to your profile. This store should not be used to store multilingual Unicode data. Do you want to continue?"
I click OK and then an account bearing the name of the .pst file, in this particular case Messages, is created in Outlook 2010 but it contains only an empty "Deleted" folder and the messages of the Outlook 97 Messages.pst archive file for some unknown reason fail to be extracted in this way.
Is is probably just because Outlook 97 is so old compared to Outlook 2010 that opening its archive .pst files into Outlook 2010 is not supported? I wonder. And most important: How could I extract the messages from this Outlook 97 .pst file?
It should be noted that I have the Microsoft Office 97 installation CD-ROM and I am now thinking that a possible solution might be to also install Outlook 97 on my system and use it to only extract the messages but, on the other hand, I am not sure that this installation will not cause any damage to the properly functioning Outlook 2010 and therefore I am afraid to do so unless someone who knows the matter much better than me can assure me that there will be no problems.
And anyway, in which other ways, especially if the additional installation of Outlook 97 is not safe for my system, would it be possible to have these important messages extracted from this Outlook 97 archive .pst file?
I should finally also note here that my Outlook 97 was part of the Greek language version of Office 97 and that I had Word as my e-mail editor.
Is there anything I can do to extract the messages? Please help!
I would greatly appreciate a quick reply.
Continue reading...
