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Hera
I have been to slipstick.com and also bought ABF Outlook
Backup. I'm running OL2003 at both home and work and use a
laptop purely to transport the files (basically a
glorified Zip disk at this point.) I've customized nearly
every aspect of Outlook, from rules to folder-specific
forms to views, categories, labels, fonts, etc.
Last night at home I copied *everything* in my Application
Data/Microsoft/Outlook folder onto my laptop. I ran a
full 'ABF Outlook Backup' of my .pst. I also copied
the .pst itself onto the laptop. My .pst is not in the
default OL location, it's on a data-only drive, but
everything else is default.
This morning I came to work and expected to be able to
fully duplicate my home OL install on my work machine...
no dice. The custom views didn't make it, my personal
folders are different, my contacts didn't make it, custom
forms either, categories... Seems like only my rules and
toolbars made the trip.
I thought I'd pretty much covered the bases in getting a
100% duplication of Outlook moved from home to work but
I'm clearly missing something.
Is there a fool-proof way of bringing every single piece
of Outlook 2003 from one machine to another? I do realize
it's beta and some of Slipstick's info does/may not apply,
such as I no longer have a views.dat file, but I'd think I
should nevertheless be able to accomplish this task.
Thanks,
Hera
Backup. I'm running OL2003 at both home and work and use a
laptop purely to transport the files (basically a
glorified Zip disk at this point.) I've customized nearly
every aspect of Outlook, from rules to folder-specific
forms to views, categories, labels, fonts, etc.
Last night at home I copied *everything* in my Application
Data/Microsoft/Outlook folder onto my laptop. I ran a
full 'ABF Outlook Backup' of my .pst. I also copied
the .pst itself onto the laptop. My .pst is not in the
default OL location, it's on a data-only drive, but
everything else is default.
This morning I came to work and expected to be able to
fully duplicate my home OL install on my work machine...
no dice. The custom views didn't make it, my personal
folders are different, my contacts didn't make it, custom
forms either, categories... Seems like only my rules and
toolbars made the trip.
I thought I'd pretty much covered the bases in getting a
100% duplication of Outlook moved from home to work but
I'm clearly missing something.
Is there a fool-proof way of bringing every single piece
of Outlook 2003 from one machine to another? I do realize
it's beta and some of Slipstick's info does/may not apply,
such as I no longer have a views.dat file, but I'd think I
should nevertheless be able to accomplish this task.
Thanks,
Hera