Problem with two personal folders in Outlook

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Jim Simon

I don't know how it happened, but I now have two seperate
personal folders each with their own calander, inbox,
contacts etc. Needless to say, I want to combine them
into one without losing data from the other.
Can you please help me?
Thank you
Jim
 
Are they duplicate sets of folders or are the contents different?

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The folders are not identical.
Thank you

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Are they duplicate sets of folders or are the contents different?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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In that case, you can drag and drop from one set of folders to the
other, and when your preferred set of folders contains all the data you
need it to, close the other set of folders by right-clicking the root
folder and selecting "Close". (Make sure the preferred folder is set as
the default mail store before you do this.) If it won't close, post
back and I can give you some other things to try.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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You can't move the default folders, but you can copy them. Right-click
the folder and drag it, and you should get an option to copy. However,
it may be better just to copy the contents of those folders instead of
the folders themselves, to avoid confusion with the folder names (you'd
have two folders named "Calendar", for example). Switch to the "By
Category" view of each folder you want to copy information from -- you
can switch views using View | Current View -- then select all items at
once (CTRL+A) and drag them to the destination folder.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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