Outlook Notes 2003 in XP not syncing with iPhone 4 - One Solution

Hi I upgraded from Nokia to iPhone4 last Friday and spent all Saturday and Sunday morning struggling to get my important Outlook Notes to sync with the iPhone. Contacts,Calendar, E-mail Accs + Bookmarks all synced properly but not the Notes. I had used scanpst.exe to check my .pst file and removed blank Notes etc and many other things that have been mentioned on this Forum and elsewhere, but all failed. On Sunday pm I phoned Apple and a very helpful Rory spent almost 2 hours going through everything, including my uploading 3 data files, for later investigation but all failed.
However one item of success was when I created a new User Account, and starting Outlook from scratch did manage to sync sample Notes OK. I then carried on by myself and copied my .pst file to this new user account, but again it failed.
I then reckoned that the problem was with the .pst file and not Apple software, so I investigated the .pst file further. I, and many of the other users who have had a problem with Outlook Notes, may have been using Outlook for a long time. Myself from 1999 and I have annual archives of my .pst files for each year as I archive all the data annually, and carry on with the same .pst file.
When I checked it's properties I found my .pst file was in 1997-2002 Format, so as Apple says they only support from XP 2003 and a new file did work I then made myself a new .pst file and copied all the data to it. Calendar was the most difficult, but that was solved by Outlook forums and the end result was that the Notes and everything else then synced properly.
When I returned to my Office on Monday - I use Outlook 2007 there - and I repeated the procedure on my Office .pst, which is different, but I sync Notes, in 2007 I had to delete my mail profile first as my new.pst file was originally created in the 1997-2002 format, but with a new Mail profile it all worked properly.
This solution worked for me and maybe the reason many other avid Outlook Note users may have had issues....
Chris....

Hi I upgraded from Nokia to iPhone4 last Friday and spent all Saturday and Sunday morning struggling to get my important Outlook Notes to sync with the iPhone. Contacts,Calendar, E-mail Accs + Bookmarks all synced properly but not the Notes. I had used scanpst.exe to check my .pst file and removed blank Notes etc and many other things that have been mentioned on this Forum and elsewhere, but all failed. On Sunday pm I phoned Apple and a very helpful Rory spent almost 2 hours going through everything, including my uploading 3 data files, for later investigation but all failed.
However one item of success was when I created a new User Account, and starting Outlook from scratch did manage to sync sample Notes OK. I then carried on by myself and copied my .pst file to this new user account, but again it failed.
I then reckoned that the problem was with the .pst file and not Apple software, so I investigated the .pst file further. I, and many of the other users who have had a problem with Outlook Notes, may have been using Outlook for a long time. Myself from 1999 and I have annual archives of my .pst files for each year as I archive all the data annually, and carry on with the same .pst file.
When I checked it's properties I found my .pst file was in 1997-2002 Format, so as Apple says they only support from XP 2003 and a new file did work I then made myself a new .pst file and copied all the data to it. Calendar was the most difficult, but that was solved by Outlook forums and the end result was that the Notes and everything else then synced properly.
When I returned to my Office on Monday - I use Outlook 2007 there - and I repeated the procedure on my Office .pst, which is different, but I sync Notes, in 2007 I had to delete my mail profile first as my new.pst file was originally created in the 1997-2002 format, but with a new Mail profile it all worked properly.
This solution worked for me and maybe the reason many other avid Outlook Note users may have had issues....
Chris....

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