Outlook 2007 - move IMAP PST files to new directory/drive?

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Thanks MaxN, that did the trick for me too!


MaxN said:
Hi,
If you want to move just file(s) from Outlook folder (IMAP files, for
example) you can do next thing:
1) Close outlook
2) Move Outlook folder to, let's say, disk D:\Emails\IMAP
3) Open cmd with Run As Administrator
4)mklink /d C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
D:\Emails\IMAP\Outlook
It will create Outlook "folder" in
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ and you will see all files
from "original" Outlook folder, but all of them are located on disk D...
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Thanks for sharing MaxN, i'm find that too. :)

MaxN said:
Hi,
If you want to move just file(s) from Outlook folder (IMAP files, for
example) you can do next thing:
1) Close outlook
2) Move Outlook folder to, let's say, disk D:\Emails\IMAP
3) Open cmd with Run As Administrator
4)mklink /d C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
D:\Emails\IMAP\Outlook
It will create Outlook "folder" in
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ and you will see all files
from "original" Outlook folder, but all of them are located on disk D...
Click to expand...
 
I struggled with this for a whiler - until I realised the solution.:

First Install "Link shell Extension" Available in 32 & 64 Bit flavours at:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

The following instructions apply to the "Outlook" directory under
"AppData\Local\Microsoft"

1 : Make sure Outlook is closed.

2: MOVE this directories contents to a place on your other Hard drive - For
example a "D:\Mailboxes"

3: DELETE the directory

4: Right click on the directory you now use to store your outlook AppData
contents, and choose 'Pick Link Source'

4: Go to the "AppData\Local\Microsoft" directory, and right click - choose
'Drop Link -> As Symbolic Link'

5 Rename this symbolic link (If necessary - in my case my directory was
called mailboxes, so it was necessary) to "Outlook"

YOU ARE DONE!! Outlook will treat this symbolic link as the directory it was
expecting to see.
 
Indeed it works fine, but one of the key points is the order:
1) you go to the mail control panel, then "data files" (or via profiles,
"data files")
2) you click "open folder" and move the data files to their target
destination.
If you delete or move the files before being in the control panel "data
files" tab, the system will recreate empty data files !!!
3) back in the control panel, you select the data files and click
"settings". Go passed the error message and find the data file(s) in their
new location.

hth
Philippe
 
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