Copy my contact file to another computer

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Thanks for the help. Can I do the following?
Copy the Office 2003 "Personal Folders(1)" (.pst) file on my office computer
to a thumb drive; Then rename the "Personal Folders(1)" (example: "my office
stuff") on my thumb drive. Then move the .pst file, "my office stuff" from
the thumb drive to my home computer (Vista, Office 2008).

Will I have two .pst files that I can access? Or do I have to get rid of
the existing Personal Folders(1) .pst file that was present before I copied
the "my office stuff" .pst file to my home computer. In other words can I
have multiple .pst files on my computer (Vista, Office 2007) that I can
access?
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RMA


Russ Valentine said:
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx


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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
RMA said:
How do I copy a contact list on my office computer with XP to my home
computer with Vista?
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You can open as many PST files in Outlook as you want. It is never a good
idea to rename PST Files in Windows Explorer. Any changes you make to PST
files should be made from within Outlook itself.
Any PST file you store on a read only medium will have to be placed back on
a hard drive and have its read only attribute removed before you can open it
in Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
RMA said:
Thanks for the help. Can I do the following?
Copy the Office 2003 "Personal Folders(1)" (.pst) file on my office
computer
to a thumb drive; Then rename the "Personal Folders(1)" (example: "my
office
stuff") on my thumb drive. Then move the .pst file, "my office stuff"
from
the thumb drive to my home computer (Vista, Office 2008).

Will I have two .pst files that I can access? Or do I have to get rid of
the existing Personal Folders(1) .pst file that was present before I
copied
the "my office stuff" .pst file to my home computer. In other words can I
have multiple .pst files on my computer (Vista, Office 2007) that I can
access?
--
RMA


Russ Valentine said:
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all
the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
RMA said:
How do I copy a contact list on my office computer with XP to my home
computer with Vista?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks
--
RMA


Russ Valentine said:
You can open as many PST files in Outlook as you want. It is never a good
idea to rename PST Files in Windows Explorer. Any changes you make to PST
files should be made from within Outlook itself.
Any PST file you store on a read only medium will have to be placed back on
a hard drive and have its read only attribute removed before you can open it
in Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
RMA said:
Thanks for the help. Can I do the following?
Copy the Office 2003 "Personal Folders(1)" (.pst) file on my office
computer
to a thumb drive; Then rename the "Personal Folders(1)" (example: "my
office
stuff") on my thumb drive. Then move the .pst file, "my office stuff"
from
the thumb drive to my home computer (Vista, Office 2008).

Will I have two .pst files that I can access? Or do I have to get rid of
the existing Personal Folders(1) .pst file that was present before I
copied
the "my office stuff" .pst file to my home computer. In other words can I
have multiple .pst files on my computer (Vista, Office 2007) that I can
access?
--
RMA


Russ Valentine said:
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all
the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
How do I copy a contact list on my office computer with XP to my home
computer with Vista?
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