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Office Outlook mail folder change
Name: Dick Johnson Date: November 18, 2005 at 07:31:32 Pacific OS: W2K-XP CPU/Ram: 1024
Comment:
May be impossible, but is there a way to switch to "Outlook" for mail and select the save folder to a different drive instead of "C\My Documents"??? I boot four differant operating systems and store all of my mail (Outlook Express) from all systems into a common folder in "L" drive named "NT-W2K-XP-Borg Outlook Express Mail". This way I can always find my latest mail in each operating system. I can't seem to do this with Outlook 2003. Would it let me do this in an older version of Office? Any help would be great! All I trying to do is save all of my Outlook mail from four operating systems (Removable tarys with each O/S's "C" drive seperate) to a common drive "L" which exists in all operating systems. Outlook Express does this just fine, but I can't seem to change the save folder in Office Outlook!
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: November 18, 2005 at 09:05:26 Pacific
Reply:
Move your pst to where you want it to be. The next time you run Outlook, you'll get a message saying the pst file can't be found. Point to the new path, and that's all you need to do.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dick Johnson Date: November 18, 2005 at 09:08:27 Pacific
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Thank you. I just stumbled onto this 10 minutes ago and works perfectly. Had to uninstall and reinstall Outlook to kill the .pst file in "C".
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: November 18, 2005 at 09:19:10 Pacific
Reply:
You don't need to uninstall anything...
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Response Number 4
Name: Dick Johnson Date: November 18, 2005 at 09:25:45 Pacific
Reply:
Well Dummy did anyway! But everything works perfect in W2000; now I get to do this in the other operating systems. Thanks again Jennifer! I hope Outlook is a little safer than Outlook Express.
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Response Number 5
Name: FJ Date: November 19, 2005 at 23:40:32 Pacific
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Now, Now, Now Dick. You're not a dummy. You're just ignorant.
Now that you know, you're fine.
Tomorrow the Stars!
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Response Number 6
Name: vlad Date: December 8, 2005 at 02:19:59 Pacific
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I`ve tried this, in winXP, but my outlook 2003 has all the emails and don`t ask me for the folder at all
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