2nd Post. Please help with Personal files

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Hello,
I need help configuring my desktop to use the same calender and contacts
as my notebook, but I want both computers to have different e-mail. In other
words when I bring my laptot .pst file to my desktop, I dont wanr my e=mail
on my desktop to written over. Please help. I made a major mistake yesterday
when I brought my laptop file over and it wrote over all of my desktop
e-mails.
Thank You very much
Mark
 
Mark said:
Hello,
I need help configuring my desktop to use the same calender and contacts
as my notebook, but I want both computers to have different e-mail. In other
words when I bring my laptot .pst file to my desktop, I dont wanr my e=mail
on my desktop to written over. Please help. I made a major mistake yesterday
when I brought my laptop file over and it wrote over all of my desktop
e-mails.
Thank You very much
Mark
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When you copy your laptop pst file over, do NOT import it, just go to
File-Open_Outlook Data file. It'll then open in a separate Personal Folder.
 
Mark W. said:
I need help configuring my desktop to use the same calender and
contacts
as my notebook, but I want both computers to have different e-mail.
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Can't be done, exactly. All of your active folders (Calendar, Contacts,
Inbox, Outbox, etc.) are of necessity all within the same PST. If you don't
want to use the same Inbox, you also can't use the same Calendar or
Contacts. The best you can do is to copy one PC's PST to the other and open
it there with File>Open>Outlook Data File and then copy what you want from
the second PST to the main one. Also, see this site for methods of sharing:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
 
Gordon,
Thank you. It seems like that will work fine. I have some folders that are
still there from when I was trying to do this before and I cannot get rid of
them. When I click the folder it says the folder cannot be opened. Any Ideas.
Thanks again....
Mark
 
Mark W. said:
I have some folders
that are still there from when I was trying to do this before and I
cannot get rid of them. When I click the folder it says the folder
cannot be opened.
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Folders or Folder files?
 
Mark W. said:
Folders that are showing with the rest of the folders.
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I still don't have a picture in my mind of what you see. On the left, in
the Navigation Pane, is a list of folders, like Contacts, Inbox, and so on.
Those are all children of a folder file called "Personal Folders" or
"Outlook Today". It is the "Personal Folders" or "Outlook Today" that are
the "folder files" and the folders contained within them that are the
"folders" to which I refer. To which of those do you refer?
 
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