How to correct path to "missing" Personal .pst in OL98?

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OL98 and Win98se.
Is there a way to correct the <path> to a personal .pst file that is no
longer where it was in the past?

A number of personal .pst's were on a separate HD.
The drive died.
I was able to get them off a backup CD and put them to a different
partition/folder on the working drive.
When I open OL the previously opened personal folders are listed (from the
last open before the drive died).
When I try to access any one of them I get a "Unable to expand folder. The
set of folders could not be opened. The file: <old-path>.pst could not be
found." error message.

I found and corrected several registry entries.
No joy.
I've tried copying the restored .pst's to a USB stick using the "missing"
path and .pst's.
No joy.
Not expecting anything different, I tried links on the stick pointing to the
files on the HD.
No joy.
I've searched various ascii/iny files I could think of or find.
No joy.

Does anyone know where [else] I might be able to find the old path so I can
correct it to the new path?

[Hopefully I've provided enough to go on]

Thanks.
Geo. Salisbury
Long Valley, NJ
 
Use File > Open and browse to the PST in question. Or use the mail applet in
the Control panel.
 
Thank you.
The File/Open... did the trick.
Bit of a duhhh I guess - I was looking for something tricky and ignored the
obvious.
Geo. S.

K. Orland said:
Use File > Open and browse to the PST in question. Or use the mail applet
in
the Control panel.

--
Kathleen Orland - MVP Outlook

http://www.howto-outlook.com/



GSalisbury said:
OL98 and Win98se.
Is there a way to correct the <path> to a personal .pst file that is no
longer where it was in the past?

A number of personal .pst's were on a separate HD.
The drive died.
I was able to get them off a backup CD and put them to a different
partition/folder on the working drive.
When I open OL the previously opened personal folders are listed (from
the
last open before the drive died).
When I try to access any one of them I get a "Unable to expand folder.
The
set of folders could not be opened. The file: <old-path>.pst could not be
found." error message.

I found and corrected several registry entries.
No joy.
I've tried copying the restored .pst's to a USB stick using the "missing"
path and .pst's.
No joy.
Not expecting anything different, I tried links on the stick pointing to
the
files on the HD.
No joy.
I've searched various ascii/iny files I could think of or find.
No joy.

Does anyone know where [else] I might be able to find the old path so I
can
correct it to the new path?

[Hopefully I've provided enough to go on]

Thanks.
Geo. Salisbury
Long Valley, NJ
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