Outlook 2007 Central Location?

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SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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hi peeps...

just wondering, is there any way to store emails / email accounts / contacts in some sort of file located on a different hard drive?

the reason i ask is that i format (well, revert to a previous clean acronis true image) all the time and i'm forever exporting and importing my emails and contacts... is there any way to make it all work from within one sort of storage file on my D drive? so then when the c drive is refreshed it just tags back onto that file and i'm up to date again (as opposed to it reverting to the image which is much older in terms of emails etc...)

not sure as what i've just asked makes the best sense, but maybe someone out there gets me :)

been having a look at .pst files but not sure i know what i'm doing...
 
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Yup you need to move your pst file to your d drive and then point outlook to the new location (do this through data file management)
 
yep what he said, its one of the nicest features of outlook 2007 in my view, that and the fact in theory you could link more than one outlook to it if its on a server :)

One thing to be aware of though - after a reinstall the pst doesnt always take fully and you have to delete any old emails etc stored on the mail server.
 
lsg1r said:
yep what he said, its one of the nicest features of outlook 2007 in my view, that and the fact in theory you could link more than one outlook to it if its on a server :)

One thing to be aware of though - after a reinstall the pst doesnt always take fully and you have to delete any old emails etc stored on the mail server.
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oh ok, could you elaborate on that warning a bit i don't quite understand?

also could i just ask, this only works with emails doesnt it, is there any way to get the pst file to encompass contacts / calenders etc?
 
Wouldnt it make more sense just to back up your entire user profile? You can use data file management/ folder redirection to move it to another location but you will still have some manual work putting the redirections back in place or pointing Outlook at the correct file repository.

Alternatively (and this is perhaps a really controversial move) format your machine a bit less often? If you're having to format a machine a machine with any level of frequency there's something amiss.
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
oh ok, could you elaborate on that warning a bit i don't quite understand?

also could i just ask, this only works with emails doesnt it, is there any way to get the pst file to encompass contacts / calenders etc?
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a pst stores most things in outlook...contact, calender, tasks etc as well as mail
 
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