make personal outlook files portable

[Guest]

I use a 1GB USB portable drive to make a lot of my files accessible from any
computer I work from (usually about 5). I want to save my Outlook files to
the drive in order to be able to have all of my contacts, calendar, email
accounts, etc, saved and accessed to/from (1) location.
Which files do I need to copy to the USB drive, and how do I have Outlook
open and save to the same files from no matter which computer I'm at?
Also are there any issues regarding the different releases of Office/Outlook?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use a 1GB USB portable drive to make a lot of my files accessible
from any computer I work from (usually about 5). I want to save my
Outlook files to the drive in order to be able to have all of my
contacts, calendar, email accounts, etc, saved and accessed to/from
(1) location.

Can't do it. While all your Outlook data is in one file (the PST), your
email account information is kept in the Registry.

Which files do I need to copy to the USB drive, and how do I have
Outlook open and save to the same files from no matter which computer
I'm at?

The PST (Personal Folders file) is where your data (Contacts, Calendar,
Inbox, etc.) is kept if you're not using an Exchange server for your
mailbox. See
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm for a summary of all of the
Outlook files and their locations, some of which you can control and some of
which you can't.

Also are there any issues regarding the different releases of
Office/Outlook?

Only one: Outlook 2002 and earlier can't read a PST created in Unicode
format in Outlook 2003. OL 2003, however, can create, read, and write
earlier Outlooks' ANSI-format PSTs.