PST file content

[Bill]

Where are the Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts,
etc. files kept in Outlook. Earlier today
I copied one user's PST file to another's
in the belief that the PST file contained
just the Contacts, which is what I wanted.

Now, my client reports that the two users
of that system have their e-mails combined.

How would copying one user's contact
folder to the other cause that?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

In the PST file (it can contain mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, journal,
..etc.)

 

[Bill]

What you're telling me, Neo, is that I completely
clobbered user number 2's Inbox, Drafts and
Sent Items?
Bill

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

If you copied over the existing PST file, yep.

What you're telling me, Neo, is that I completely
clobbered user number 2's Inbox, Drafts and
Sent Items?
Bill

 

[Bill]

See my post "WRONG thing to do" on the "Contacts"
forum.

 

[Brian Tillman]

See my post "WRONG thing to do" on the "Contacts"
forum.

What led you to think the PST contained only contacts?

 

[Bill]

All of the communications I had on the subject referred to
the "Contacts Folder". "Folder" is common terminology on
Windows systems to mean either a node or file in a directory
tree. If the PST is in fact a proprietary "database", then also
consistent with Windows and Office a database would
normally consist of tables, as one would find in a mdb file
in Access. I simply interpreted the terminology to be
consistent with that of most of Windows and Office.

Bill