Help with Outlook .pst files

cornerstone13

Hoping you can help with this latest challenge of mine.

We recently replaced our old desktop (XP with Office 2003) and our new desktop is Windows 7 with Office 2010.

We copied the old .pst file over but Outlook 2010 set up its own .pst file so we ended up with two - the old one called "personal folders" with all the old data and the new one which had the current inbox etc.

The new PC was faulty and has been replaced (thanks Tesco, great service) and I am in the process of setting everything back up again.

Is there a way that I can "merge" the pst files, so I end up with one set of folders, rather than the three I'm likely to end up with (one from the old desktop, one from the faulty desktop and one from the current desktop).

If not, I can live with it, but thought it worth asking

Thanks

MX5huggy

With outlook 2010 you can just drag the all the emails between the folders, so have all 3 in outlook then move the items between the folders. Then delete the unwanted .pst's

cornerstone13

That sounds scarily simple - will have a go. Thanks

KillerWatt

cornerstone13 wrote: »

Is there a way that I can "merge" the pst files, so I end up with one set of folders, rather than the three I'm likely to end up with (one from the old desktop, one from the faulty desktop and one from the current desktop).

Go through the import procedure for each .PST file, tell it to import to the same folder each time, and tell it not to import duplicates.

cornerstone13

Sorry, failed dismally on both of these solutions - obviously need it to be spelled out to me !!

I currently have two of everything in Outlook (inbox, contacts, calender etc)- one is from the very old desktop and one is the combined data from the faulty desktop and the current desktop.

(If I can combine the faulty and the current, why can't I combine the old desktop as well - it's beyond me)

cornerstone13

Could anyone "talk" me through this - seem to be incapable of doing it on my own.

Thanks

tronator

cornerstone13 wrote: »

Could anyone "talk" me through this - seem to be incapable of doing it on my own.

Thanks

Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070 and scroll down to "How to import .pst file data into Outlook"

cornerstone13

Thanks - this is for Outlook 2007 and earlier and I can't find the equivalent for Outlook 2010 on the Microsoft site.

Does anyone know of an "Outlook 2010 for Dummies" online guide - can't find anything helpful through Google.

Whatever I've done in trying, I can't now send emails out - the message "data outlook file cannot be accessed" so I've obviously done something wrong but I don't know what

tronator

cornerstone13 wrote: »

Thanks - this is for Outlook 2007 and earlier and I can't find the equivalent for Outlook 2010 on the Microsoft site.

Does anyone know of an "Outlook 2010 for Dummies" online guide - can't find anything helpful through Google.

It should be the same or at least very similar.

cornerstone13 wrote: »

Whatever I've done in trying, I can't now send emails out - the message "data outlook file cannot be accessed" so I've obviously done something wrong but I don't know what

This is a different problem and doesn't have anything to do with the import itself. It looks like you messed something up with your previous attempts. The PST for "default delivery" seems to be missing. Have a look here

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/move-your-outlook-data-file-to-another-location-HA001112480.aspx and scroll down to

"Work with multiple data files in one profile"

HTH