Outlook 2003 : Email Address History File?

[chris menzies]

Hi.

My end-user had an Outlook 2003 Client on his PC. I have just set him up
with a new laptop with Outlook 2003, amoung others, installed. He has lost
his email address history of course. When you enter a letter next to the TO
field in a new email you get a history of already used email addresses but of
course when you set up a new Outlook client on a new computer you lose this
history. Is there a file I can copy from one machine to another, which holds
this history? Can this be done?

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Hi.

My end-user had an Outlook 2003 Client on his PC. I have just set him up
with a new laptop with Outlook 2003, amoung others, installed. He has
lost
his email address history of course. When you enter a letter next to the
TO
field in a new email you get a history of already used email addresses but
of
course when you set up a new Outlook client on a new computer you lose
this
history. Is there a file I can copy from one machine to another, which
holds
this history? Can this be done?

You need to restore the file Desktop.nk2, located in his profile folder. For
further details, post in an Outlook newsgroup where you will find the
Outlook experts, e.g. here:
News://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general
News://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.configuration
News://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

 

[Alias]

Hi.

My end-user had an Outlook 2003 Client on his PC. I have just set him up
with a new laptop with Outlook 2003, amoung others, installed. He has lost
his email address history of course. When you enter a letter next to the TO
field in a new email you get a history of already used email addresses but of
course when you set up a new Outlook client on a new computer you lose this
history. Is there a file I can copy from one machine to another, which holds
this history? Can this be done?

The auto address list is called a nickname file, is named outlook.nk2
and is located under c:\documents and settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

Alias