How to Change location of PST files?

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Drako - 26 May 2004 20:36 GMT

I need to move my PST files to another disk / location. How do I tell
Outlook to ignore the default location and to look in another
location?

Thanks.

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Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote - 26 May 2004 20:43 GMT

>I need to move my PST files to another disk / location. How do I tell
>Outlook to ignore the default location and to look in another location?
>
>Thanks.

Just close Outlook, move the .PST files, then restart Outlook. Outlook
will prompt you, when it restarts, to show it where the files have been
moved to.
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Drako - 29 May 2004 18:48 GMT

Thank you, Ben! Now that I have done this, extra (duplicate) folders
are displayed the Folder List. For example, I now have two Outlook
Today listings displayed, two Archive Folders displayed, etc.

How do I remove these? I've tried right-clicking the folders, folder
Properties, and looked under the File menu for any such option.

Johnny

> Just close Outlook, move the .PST files, then restart Outlook. Outlook
> will prompt you, when it restarts, to show it where the files have been
> moved to.

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Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote - 30 May 2004 05:38 GMT

>Thank you, Ben! Now that I have done this, extra (duplicate) folders
>are displayed the Folder List. For example, I now have two Outlook
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>
>Johnny

What if you right-click those folders and choose "Close"?

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Drako - 30 May 2004 23:40 GMT

This worked great! Thank you. But now I need to delete the previous
Personal Folders from appearing in the Folder List because now, after
changing the PST location, there are duplicates of everything.
Right-clicking or the File menu didn't seem to offer any
possibilities.

Help?

> Just close Outlook, move the .PST files, then restart Outlook. Outlook
> will prompt you, when it restarts, to show it where the files have been
> moved to.

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