can I make outlook portable; on my jump drive

[Guest]

I want to use my outlook contacts and tasks at home or office...how to I save
to jump drive so they can be portable

 

[Remove ABCD from Email address to reply]

It seems to me that if you copy your PST file to the thumb drive and then
change your profile on each machine to use that location as the default path
it should work fine (maybe slower than normal) assuming the drive is large
enough to handle it.

Neil

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to use my outlook contacts and tasks at home or office...how
to I save to jump drive so they can be portable

With Outlook closed, copy your PST to the jump drive and take it home with
you. Put it on the hard drive at home and open with that Outlook.

While you can actually make Outlook use the PST directly on the jump drive,
there are some side-effects that you could see if you use the exact same PST
with both PCs, shuttling it back and forth. You'd probably lose the use of
any rules it contains, for example.

 

[Guest]

Is there any way to keep the rules when moving the pst between computers?
This used to be no problem- why isn't there a way to do this now?

Thanks,
-Erle

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there any way to keep the rules when moving the pst between
computers? This used to be no problem- why isn't there a way to do
this now?

If Exchange is not part of your mail profile, your rules will be in your PST
and they should be there if you configure your PST properly on the
destination PC. You may need to open each and reset the condition to get
them to work again, but they should be visible, at any rate.