319253 - Error when trying to Import outlook.pst file WITH NO OUTLOOK installed on machine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124486

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Ken Young]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; FDM)
Build Identifier: version 1.0.7 (20050923)

I have put a copy of my outlook.pst file (which comtains all my outlook email, calendar, contact, etc) onto a new machine WHICH DOES NOT have Outlook installed. This is because I want to use Thunderbird and NOT buy Outlook. When I attempt IMPORT of either Calender or Email, and error message box pops up and states that it "Can't find an Outlook Email(address book) to import. I have placed the outlook.pst file in the same location it would be if Outlook was installed and I don't see any option where I can "tell it" where to look. What do I do? Thanks in advance for any help!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. Select IMPORT
3. Select OUTLOOK
4. Select either MAIL or ADDRESS Book
Error box then pops up saying that it can't find Email/Address book

Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
I expected it to find the outlook.pst file and import, or give me an option to "point" to where the outlook.pst file is.

See Expected Results

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 260586 -> Core bug 153419 -> Suite bug 124486? See also bug 294204 comment 1.

Comment 2

[Parkhideh]

The report and its suggestion is correct.  There is no obvious way of importing the Outlook address files (*.pst).

However, because the program is only looking for a special folder on Win98; simply creating C:\Outlook\  and placing Outlook.pst in it worked.

Therefore I conclude that the fix, as originally reported, is a simple one.  Allow a "browse" object show up so that the user can select the folder.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That's bug 124486.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124486 ***