Outlook 2000 and Personal Folders (.pst)

H

Howard

I tried finding this somewhere, but couldn't. Would
appreciate anyone's help.

I'm running Outlook 2000 on Windows 98 SE (yeah I know
it's old but it works!).

I have 2 PC's networked at home. One of them (the one I
use the most) is having problems. I found the .pst file
that is used by Outlook on there.

Is there a way to change the configuration of Outlook 2000
on my other PC, so that when I copy the .pst file there,
it recognizes that, and uses that instead of the one it
uses now?

Thanks.
 
D

DL

It is not reccommended to access pst via a network, corruption problems.
Though you can try, simply File/Open/Personal Folders.......browse to
location.
Or you can copy pst to 2nd pc and open pst as before.(Ensure read only is
off) Close origonal pst, if req.
Do not overwrite the origonal pst
 
H

Howard

Thanks.

To clarify, I wasn't planning on doing this via the
network (especially as my second PC is on the fritz). I
did copy the .pst file to the working PC.

I found and renamed the "original" pst file to something
else, and put my "good" one in that same drive. That
seems to work OK, for now.

Instead of doing that, was there some way of conifiguring
Outlook to point to an alternative folder for the other
pst file?? Is there a way to change Outlook's
default .pst location?
 
D

DL

You can have numerous pst open in OL, you may suffer performance degredation
though.
Just close, within OL, any unwanted pst. The pst can be at any hd location
on yr sys.
Once opened the pst will be available whenever OL is started.
 
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