Sorry ctc, I made a mistake. The outlook.pst shouldn't be deleted since the
calendar & contact & task are stored in it.
"ctc" wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> "Jerry Xie" wrote:
>
> > As soon as you finish copying the old mails to imap folder, you can delete
> > the outlook.pst.
>
> What about all of my contacts and their journal history, calendar, tasks?
> Aren't they all in the outlook.pst file?
>
> > The Outl"myemailaddress.com"-00000007.pst was auto created by outlook, it
> > contains the mails you choose to download from IMAP server.
>
> Should I redirect the IMAP email account to the outlook.pst file or keep it
> in a separate Outl"myemailaddress.com"-00000007.pst file?
Seems it is not possible to redirect the IMAP data file.
>
> > However if you plan to access old mails offline, the imap pst file will
> > increase to as big as the previous outlook.pst. In this case, my suggestion
> > is just keep the outlook.pst.
>
> Unless there is something I am missing...in this case, size doesn't matter.
> I have a 500 gb hard drive.
>
> > "ctc" wrote:
> >
> > > To date I have had only 1 POP email address/account, 1 Personal Folder, 1
> > > Archive Folder in outlook (the current version being 2007), 1 Outlook.pst
> > > file, and 1 Archive.pst file.
> > >
> > > In anticipation of obtaining a smart phone and wanting to synch my email on
> > > both my PC and phone, I asked my email host to convert my POP email account
> > > to an IMAP, which they did today.
> > >
> > > I then created a new IMAP email account in Outlook using the same old email
> > > address and somehow during the process the new IMAP folder name became
> > > "myemailaddress.com", and a new data pst file was created with the terribly
> > > cryptic name Outl"myemailaddress.com"-00000007.pst in the same location as my
> > > old Outlook.pst file. Was this done automatically by MS design? Can I simply
> > > change either one or both of these names if I like?
> > >
> > > I plan on copying all of the email in the inbox and sent items folders from
> > > my old Personal Folders POP account to the inbox and sent items folders in
> > > the new IMAP "myemailaddress.com" folder so that they will be available on my
> > > smart phone. Once that is done do I...
> > >
> > > "Remove" my old POP email account from the Personal Folder? If I do this
> > > won't all of that email stay in my Outlook.pst file and make it unnecessarily
> > > large? Should I delete all of the email before removing the email account?
> > >
> > > Could I (should I) then change the data file that the IMAP email account is
> > > associated with to the old Outlook.pst file? or should I keep it as a
> > > separate pst file?
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