Duplicate .pst files

[Bill Hard]

How do I get rid of a extra .pst file for Microsoft Outlook 2000? My
operating system is Microsoft Windows Professional 2000. My company does
not have Microsoft Exchange. We use Novell as a server.

Somehow I ended up with two .pst folders: The Outlook Today, and one that is
named "Personal Folders". I can't close it the Personal Folders; if I try
to close it, I get the error; "The operation failed, the object could not be
found". It gives me the same message when I go into the personal properties,
advanced section. I went into mail icon in the Contacts folder, but it
didn't give me the option to delete. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated

I lost my Outlook Today folder a fews months ago, so my emails were
importing into the Personal Folder,which I didn't create. Yesterday it
reappeared on its own. I wasn't even working in Outlook at that time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Delete the registry keys to the folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

Within the Outlook folder, there are a bunch of folders with long
hexadecimal values for names -- those are the ones you need to look in to
see if you can find the ghost .PST names. If you delete one of the keys and
it points to your real .PST file instead of one of the ghosts, it's not the
end of the world -- your data won't be gone. The worst you would have to do
is recreate your Outlook profile.

 

[Guest]

I went into registry keys for outlook and notice that
there is atleast 4 folders that has personal file folders
listed twice. How do I know which ones to delete?

Thanks
T.

-----Original Message-----
Delete the registry keys to the folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

Within the Outlook folder, there are a bunch of folders with long
hexadecimal values for names -- those are the ones you need to look in to
see if you can find the ghost .PST names. If you delete one of the keys and
it points to your real .PST file instead of one of the ghosts, it's not the
end of the world -- your data won't be gone. The worst you would have to do
is recreate your Outlook profile.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

How do I get rid of a extra .pst file for Microsoft Outlook 2000? My
operating system is Microsoft Windows Professional 2000. My company does
not have Microsoft Exchange. We use Novell as a server.

Somehow I ended up with two .pst folders: The Outlook

Today, and one that
is

named "Personal Folders". I can't close it the Personal Folders; if I try
to close it, I get the error; "The operation failed,

the object could not
be

found". It gives me the same message when I go into the

personal

properties,
advanced section. I went into mail icon in the Contacts folder, but it
didn't give me the option to delete. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated

I lost my Outlook Today folder a fews months ago, so my emails were
importing into the Personal Folder,which I didn't create. Yesterday it
reappeared on its own. I wasn't even working in Outlook at that time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You don't. Read the rest of my post.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I went into registry keys for outlook and notice that
there is atleast 4 folders that has personal file folders
listed twice. How do I know which ones to delete?

Thanks
T.

-----Original Message-----
Delete the registry keys to the folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

Within the Outlook folder, there are a bunch of folders with long
hexadecimal values for names -- those are the ones you need to look in to
see if you can find the ghost .PST names. If you delete one of the keys and
it points to your real .PST file instead of one of the ghosts, it's not the
end of the world -- your data won't be gone. The worst you would have to do
is recreate your Outlook profile.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

How do I get rid of a extra .pst file for Microsoft Outlook 2000? My
operating system is Microsoft Windows Professional 2000. My company does
not have Microsoft Exchange. We use Novell as a server.

Somehow I ended up with two .pst folders: The Outlook

Today, and one that
is

named "Personal Folders". I can't close it the Personal Folders; if I try
to close it, I get the error; "The operation failed,

the object could not
be

found". It gives me the same message when I go into the

personal

properties,
advanced section. I went into mail icon in the Contacts folder, but it
didn't give me the option to delete. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated

I lost my Outlook Today folder a fews months ago, so my emails were
importing into the Personal Folder,which I didn't create. Yesterday it
reappeared on its own. I wasn't even working in Outlook at that time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

.