Merge PST files

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I am in the process of moving from Win2K and Office2K on our old
computers to WinXP and Office 2007 on our new computers.

I think I have gotten the hang of copying PST files from the old
machines to the new machines and that seems to work.

But we have several email accounts and some passwords were lost, so we
had Outlook ruinning on both the old and new machines briefly. During
that time, a few emails came into the wrong Outlook (on the old
machine). I know I can forward them to myself and get them on the new
machine, but then they will be from me and not from the original
sender.

Is there a way to "merge" PST files? It's only a few emails (2-3) that
matter.
 
You could use the import function to merge your PST files and delete
anything that you don't want in the new "merged" PST.

OR...you could open the PST's first, create a folder for only the emails
that you want to save then import only those folders into a new PST file.
 
LurfysMa said:
Is there a way to "merge" PST files? It's only a few emails (2-3) that
matter.
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Ignore anyone who tells you to use import.

Merging is easy. Just open both PSTs in Outlook and drag the new messages
from the added PST to the corresponding folder of the default one.
 
Ignore anyone who tells you to use import.

Merging is easy. Just open both PSTs in Outlook and drag the new messages
from the added PST to the corresponding folder of the default one.
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Let me see if I have this straight:

1. Open Outlook with the default PST (Outlook.pst).

2. Copy the other PST file to some directory where I can access it.

2.a. Does it need to have a different name (not outlook.pst)?

3. Open the second pst file.

3.a. How will I know which emails and from which pst files?

4. Drag the emails from the second pst file to the inbox (or whatever)
folder in the new pst file.

Is that correct?
 
LurfysMa said:
Let me see if I have this straight:

1. Open Outlook with the default PST (Outlook.pst).

2. Copy the other PST file to some directory where I can access it.
Click to expand...

So far, so good.
2.a. Does it need to have a different name (not outlook.pst)?
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The name is unimportant, provided you do not overwrite any PST of the same
name.
3. Open the second pst file.

3.a. How will I know which emails and from which pst files?
Click to expand...

You're the one who said "it's only a few emails". Surely you can tell which
ones.
4. Drag the emails from the second pst file to the inbox (or whatever)
folder in the new pst file.

Is that correct?
Click to expand...

Correct.
 
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