Outlook 2003, I need a few clarifications

[Morten]

I recently installed outlook 2003.
Then I had to reinstall windows shortly after, but luckily I had made a
backup of all my .pst files.

But now im suddenly all confused over what those different .pst files are.

outlook.pst seems to be my main-one with "private/personal folders" (it
also contains my calendar notes).

But then i also have a archive.pst (thats twice as big in size as the
outlook.pst). Anyone know what that is? Do i even need it?


Lastly i have some hotmail .pst files, and they don't seem to be recognized
(when i put them in that dir where outlook looks for .pst-files.), is that
because of that unicode-thing i keep hearing about ?

Thanks in advance.

Morten

p.s: I noticed that i have two personal folders (with the EXACT same
subfolders - any explanation for that?)

 

[Brian Tillman]

I recently installed outlook 2003.
Then I had to reinstall windows shortly after, but luckily I had made
a backup of all my .pst files.

But now im suddenly all confused over what those different .pst files
are.

outlook.pst seems to be my main-one with "private/personal folders"
(it also contains my calendar notes).

Sounds good to me.

But then i also have a archive.pst (thats twice as big in size as the
outlook.pst). Anyone know what that is? Do i even need it?

You need it only if you've enabled (and want) autoarchiving, Outlook has
actually moved messages into the archive folders, and you want to reference
the messages in the archives at a future date.

Lastly i have some hotmail .pst files, and they don't seem to be
recognized (when i put them in that dir where outlook looks for
.pst-files.), is that because of that unicode-thing i keep hearing
about ?

Sounds like you created a hotmail account in Outlook at one point in order
to access your hotmail messages. If you don't need to access hotmail via
Outlook, you don't need this PST.