Pesty PST Files
Fred…I guess this is my 3 or 4th year as a Plus subscriber and I have gained TON's of info from your site…Many, many thanx…
The MS Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard is an interesting, but it seems to me, an incomplete tool…My interest with the tool is Outlook…
At my company, which runs Exchange, most of my users have several if not multiple pst files…normally one pst per customer that each user handles…
Several users have 30-40 pst files…Some of these files are kept in the default location…some on the root of the C: drive…some on the server and, when I set them up
usually in a D:\Email Data folder…most of my users travel with laptops and for the most part these pst files are kept on the laptop…
The issue is when I rebuild or give them a new computer…I have to record where all these pst files are located…then map each and every one of them after I reload Office…and I was looking for a way around this…thinking the Save My Settings Wizard would do it…but it only saves the Outlook data in Application Settings\Microsoft\Outlook which are the NK2 files, the nickname files…
So the question is this…do any of your readers know where Outlook stores the info to know where the pst files are kept…I could grab that folder, and put it in the new
installation of Outlook, and on the first use, it would automatically find and map those pst files…
Many thanx… Steve Mutchler
Hmmmm. Maybe a more-knowledgeable reader can help here, but I believe the Outlook pst files are supposed to default to:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
(the above line may wrap, but it's all one long path)
But yes, when you copy pst file around, you can get weirdness. I have a system here where the pst file is in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Fred\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Microsoft\Outlook\Microsoft\Outlook\
It still works, but jeez...
I think the way around this sort of thing is to collect all the data into one new PST file by using Outlook's "export" mechanism: Open Outlook and Export *everything* to a single, new pst file in a known, otherwise pst-free location. As far as I know, you can collect *everything*--- contacts, calendar, the works--- into this single new file. When a new copy of Outlook is set up, you use the Import tool to read the data from this all-in-one PST file back into the new Outlook setup, which will create its own new PST in its default location.
Anyone else know a better way?
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