Restoring from Backup PST

[Patrick Cavit]

I recently reinstalled Office 2003 (Outlook included),
and tried to set a backed up copy of my Personal Folders
(in PST form) as the default Outlook.pst used by
Outlook. This kind of blew up in my face, as now Outlook
has multiple copies of "Personal Folders" in the folder
tree, sometimes as many as three! I can't close any of
them, but other then that they function as any other
folder would.

Is there any easy way to make sure that when I install
Outlook it'll put it's own, default Outlook.pst back?
I've tried deleting the Outlook folder in Documents and
Settings\Patrick Cavit\Application Settings and Documents
and Settings\Patrick Cavit\Local Settings\Microsoft\, but
it still asks me to tell it where the file is.

I've given up on trying to use my backup, and would
really just like to be able to start over, and manually
open my backup and copy stuff that way. Thanks in
advance!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

To use another PST file (such as one from an earlier installation) and set
it to be the default for your current installation of Outlook, you will
first need to know the location and name of the PST file you'd like to use
as your new default. Then use the following directions:

- Go to Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Data Files > Add...
- Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close > OK to exit the
Options dialog
- Go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > View or change existing e-mail accounts
- Select the PST you just added in the "Deliver New e-mail to the following
location" dropdown (it will most likely appear just below the current
default Personal Folders file) > Finish
- Exit and Restart Outlook
- You can now close the previous default PST (R-click on that pst folder
while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername> Folders"). If you have
any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new
default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close
the old one.

 

[Patrick Cavit]

Thanks Russ, that will come in handy once I figure out
how to clear out all the information that Outlook stores
so that I can get it to copy over the default, empty
Outlook.pst during install. Right now it just asks me
for one, then makes the multiple undeletable copies every
time I point it at my backup.

-----Original Message-----
To use another PST file (such as one from an earlier installation) and set
it to be the default for your current installation of Outlook, you will
first need to know the location and name of the PST file you'd like to use
as your new default. Then use the following directions:

- Go to Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Data Files > Add...
- Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close
OK to exit the
Options dialog
- Go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > View or change existing e-mail accounts
- Select the PST you just added in the "Deliver New e- mail to the following
location" dropdown (it will most likely appear just below the current
default Personal Folders file) > Finish
- Exit and Restart Outlook
- You can now close the previous default PST (R-click on that pst folder
while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername> Folders"). If you have
any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new
default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close
the old one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently reinstalled Office 2003 (Outlook included),
and tried to set a backed up copy of my Personal Folders
(in PST form) as the default Outlook.pst used by
Outlook. This kind of blew up in my face, as now Outlook
has multiple copies of "Personal Folders" in the folder
tree, sometimes as many as three! I can't close any of
them, but other then that they function as any other
folder would.

Is there any easy way to make sure that when I install
Outlook it'll put it's own, default Outlook.pst back?
I've tried deleting the Outlook folder in Documents and
Settings\Patrick Cavit\Application Settings and Documents
and Settings\Patrick Cavit\Local Settings\Microsoft\, but
it still asks me to tell it where the file is.

I've given up on trying to use my backup, and would
really just like to be able to start over, and manually
open my backup and copy stuff that way. Thanks in
advance!

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Not following. What do you mean?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thanks Russ, that will come in handy once I figure out
how to clear out all the information that Outlook stores
so that I can get it to copy over the default, empty
Outlook.pst during install. Right now it just asks me
for one, then makes the multiple undeletable copies every
time I point it at my backup.

-----Original Message-----
To use another PST file (such as one from an earlier installation) and set
it to be the default for your current installation of Outlook, you will
first need to know the location and name of the PST file you'd like to use
as your new default. Then use the following directions:

- Go to Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Data Files > Add...
- Add the PST you'd like as your new default, then Close
OK to exit the
Options dialog
- Go to Tools > E-mail Accounts > View or change existing e-mail accounts
- Select the PST you just added in the "Deliver New e- mail to the following
location" dropdown (it will most likely appear just below the current
default Personal Folders file) > Finish
- Exit and Restart Outlook
- You can now close the previous default PST (R-click on that pst folder
while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername> Folders"). If you have
any information in your former PST that you'd like to transfer to your new
default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the other before you close
the old one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently reinstalled Office 2003 (Outlook included),
and tried to set a backed up copy of my Personal Folders
(in PST form) as the default Outlook.pst used by
Outlook. This kind of blew up in my face, as now Outlook
has multiple copies of "Personal Folders" in the folder
tree, sometimes as many as three! I can't close any of
them, but other then that they function as any other
folder would.

Is there any easy way to make sure that when I install
Outlook it'll put it's own, default Outlook.pst back?
I've tried deleting the Outlook folder in Documents and
Settings\Patrick Cavit\Application Settings and Documents
and Settings\Patrick Cavit\Local Settings\Microsoft\, but
it still asks me to tell it where the file is.

I've given up on trying to use my backup, and would
really just like to be able to start over, and manually
open my backup and copy stuff that way. Thanks in
advance!

.