Merging email from two User Accounts.....et al

[MGA@TGN]

I'm not good at this, but here it goes:
I have set up three user accounts on my laptop: One administrator, one user
which have been there for six months. I recently set up a third account, a
second user account, because I had trouble starting Outlook on the first user
account.

Almost all of my files are on the first User account, of course accessible
by the administrator account, but Outlook would never open...I kept getting
some message about failing to connect to MS exchange server, which makes no
sense to me, since I don't have Exchange Server.

So I set up Outlook on the Administrator account. Realizing I don't want to
log in as administrator often, I set up a new user account, and successfully
set up Outlook on it the first try.

So I have Outlook successfully set up on the Admin account, and the new user
account.

I'd like to merge the email in those two accounts, becuase currently,
whichever one I log into sucks all the email, and it won't show up in the
other account (unfortunately, most of it ended up in the admin account, where
I don't want to play often).

I hope that is clear enough. Basically, I want to set up so that I can see
the email from either user or admin account.

If someone could also help me fix the problem with the first user account,
where all my other stuff is safely working well, I'd be twice as happy.

Thanks,

MGA@TGN

 

[DL]

MS Exchange err:- Because you incorrectly set the type of connection (Mail)
when you configured this account
You would need to set up the correct account type - but you wouldnt want to
do this, at this stage, for reasons that should become obvious.

By setting up outlook on 3 user accounts you have created 3 seperate data
files, one for each user, allthough the actual mail account is the same. So
each user will see whatever mail is downloaded to that user data file.

You need to tell us what exactly the problem is with the user outlook
account you have been using for the last 6 months - trouble starting outlook
doesnt really say much.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

So I have Outlook successfully set up on the Admin account, and the new
user
account.

I'd like to merge the email in those two accounts, becuase currently,
whichever one I log into sucks all the email, and it won't show up in the
other account (unfortunately, most of it ended up in the admin account,
where
I don't want to play often).

DL addressed most of the issues. This one you could easily address by
changing your accounts to leave copies of messages on the server, provided
you intend to keep this arrangement of accounts, but I don't think it's the
best approach, If you rarely use the Administrator account (which is
appropriate), it's not important for that user to be able to access mail.
You should concentrate on getting it to work in the ordinary user account.

 

[MGA@TGN]

Thank you for the input. I can't imagine what reasons you refer to that might
be obvious, but submit they will not likely be obvious to me. I'm on my own
here, can't afford currently to bring it in, and am trying to straighten it
out.

I never set up Outlook on the first user account. The administrator did that
where I used to work, but haven't been there since January. So I haven't used
Outlook since then, until a week or so ago, when I decided I needed it again.

The Outlook account he set up was tied to a work network that would allow
Outlook to open and work well. However, now, it closes very quickly. I don't
get much of a chance to see what it says, other than: "Outlook must close ...
failure to connect to MS Exchange Servier." I'll try to get the exact wording
for you.

For yucks I tried Outlook on my administrator account, and it offered to set
itself up, and I used the wizard to do so, and it works well. I don't use it
because I don't like to use the admin account.

So I thought I'll just set up another account, which I did, and Outlook
again easily set up and works well. Of course, it only use hte most current
email in it, becuase every thing else was sucked into the admin user account.

I really appreciate any further assistance, and realize I am probably not
very helpful, but would be glad to provide whatever needed if you can tell me.

I'd just like to have one Outlook datafile, on a non-admin user account.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[DL]

OK I see now.
The origonal account was set up when you were connected to an exchange
account, since you no longer have that type of account it wont connect or
work in that configeration.
I'm assuming one of the accounts you set up is working fine, you just want
access to the mail on the other accounts.
Within Outlook, File>Open>Data File......browse to the other user locations
and open any pst files.
Then copy data from the folder set you just opened to the default set of
Personal Folders.
The default name for a pst (data file) being outlook.pst there could also be
an archive.pst.

If because of the current user writes you are unable to access the other
users pst files, then when logged on to the PC with Admin writes copy the
pst's to a folder in the Documents folder of the user you wish to use - you
would probably need to create specific folders in Documents for each users
pst's as the pst names will probably be the same.

In explorer, set to show hidden files locate your pst files on the other
user names, the default path being;
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\