Transferring folders to another computer

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Kat

Hi,
I'm switching offices within my company, and my computer is
not coming with me. I will be using the same email
account, but on this machine, I have a number of folders
with old, saved mail messages that I still want to keep.
IS there any way to bundle them up and put them on a disk,
or save them, or something?
 
B

Brian Tillman

Kat said:
I'm switching offices within my company, and my computer is
not coming with me. I will be using the same email
account, but on this machine, I have a number of folders
with old, saved mail messages that I still want to keep.
IS there any way to bundle them up and put them on a disk,
or save them, or something?
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Copy the PST containing those items to a network share or a CD and place
them on the new PC, remove the read-only attribute, if it's on, and open the
file with FIle>Open>Outlook Data File
 
B

Brian Tillman

Kat said:
Thank you but what does pst mean and what is the exact
process for that?
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The PST is the place where Outlook stores all your items. It's the
"Personal Folders" file.

What is the exact process for what? Copying the PST? Certainly you know
how to copy files on Windows. Is your PC connected to a network? Do you
have a CD burner on the PC? If the former, with Outlook closed, use Windows
Explorer to copy your PST to a network share that you'll also be able to
access from the new PC. On Windows 2000/XP, the default location for a PST
is %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. This is
a hidden folder and to view it you'll have to enable viewing hidden files
and folders. For Windows 98 it's C:\Windows\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

After you've copied the PST to a network share, on the new machine, copy it
back to your hard drive, placing it in any folder to which you have access.
Then, once you've configured a mail profile, you can start Outlook, click
File>Open>Outlook Data File, browse to the PST you just copied, select it,
and click OK. You'll now see all the folders it contains and you can either
move the items in those folders into your "Outlook Today" folders (you can't
move the folders themselves because Outlook Today will already contain
folders of the same names) or simply change your default delivery location
to be the moved folders, which will become your new Outlook Today.

Is this clear enough?
 
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