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I want to bring many different MS Outlook 2003 address book folders into a
new PC by exporting a PST file that has all the folders in it. For example,
one folder contains my company's members, one contains my childhood friends,
etc. Can I do that without doing a PST file for each folder. I have about 20
folders in there. Thanks.
 
If the folders you speak of are Sub-Folders (under Outlook Today or
Mailbox) then that is a single .pst file.


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Rich said:
I want to bring many different MS Outlook 2003 address book folders
into a new PC by exporting a PST file that has all the folders in it.
For example, one folder contains my company's members, one contains
my childhood friends, etc. Can I do that without doing a PST file for
each folder. I have about 20 folders in there. Thanks.
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Never export.

There are several approaches. One is to create a new PST (File>New>Outlook
Data File), and then right-click each Contact folder and choose "Copy
foldername". Specify the new PST as the destination. When you're done with
all of the folders, right-click the new PST root and choose Close. Close
Outlook. Copy the new PST to a transfer medium the new PC can read. Copy
it from there to the hard drive of the new PC, remove the read-only
attribute with Windows Explorer, start Outlook, and open the PST with
File>Open>Outlook Data File. You'll now have access to all of the contacts
folders.

It's simpler if all of the original folders are subfolders of one folder.
Then you need copy only the parent folder.
 
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