Help....changing the default .PST file!!!

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Stephen Porter

The good people on this list helped me out on this a few
months back and honestly, I printed out the instructions
and thought I had saved them, but now that it's time to do
this again I cannot find them and I have to get this done
tomorrow morning!!

Situation: Installing a brand new computer and I need to
copy the .PST file from the previous computer to the new
one and then change Outlook so that the *old* .PST file is
recognized as the default. I used to do it incorrectly
and I want to make sure I don't screw it up again. I
recall it's not terribly complicated, but requires doing
things in an orderly fashion so that the .PST file that
the fresh Outlook install starts can be deleted when all
is done--so that it doesn't show up in the folder list
view.

TIA--and I promise I won't lose this again!@!
 
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Roady [MVP]

First copy the pst-file to a location on your new harddisk (I always use My
Documents\My Outlook) and make sure that the file isn't marked "Read Only".

To access your pst-file;
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...

To set it as the default delivery location;
Tools-> E-mail Accounts...-> button Next-> use the dropdownlist below

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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