WRONG thing to do

[Bill]

Just a friendly warning from someone that just
"shot a hole in their foot" in being computer
smart but "Contacts" ignorant.

On a XP system with multiple users, if you need to
copy contacts from one user to another's, DO
NOT think you are doing so by simply by copying
one's "pst" file to that of another using Windows
Explorer from within the "Local Settings" tree for
the respective users. Instead, what you would be
doing is copying EVERYTHING......e-mail,
contacts, calendars, journals, etc. The otherwise
normal use of the Windows term "folders" does
not strictly apply where Outlook is concerned.

Bill

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

In addition, a lot of people are thrown off when they assume PST files are
like ordinary binary files. They are not. They are a complicated proprietary
database and cannot and should not be overwritten.