Reestablishing Outlook Files from a Different Location

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Just recovering from a crash with a new hard drive. Using XP with Outlook
2003 and need to change from the default path to c:\exchange for the location
of all Outlook Files, Mail Boxes, Address Book, Contacts, Folders, etc.
Managed to change path for Address Book, but not the rest. Not on network
Need to recover old e-mail, folders, etc. Any and all assistance gratefully
appreciated.
 
Les said:
Just recovering from a crash with a new hard drive. Using XP with
Outlook 2003 and need to change from the default path to c:\exchange
for the location of all Outlook Files, Mail Boxes, Address Book,
Contacts, Folders, etc. Managed to change path for Address Book, but
not the rest. Not on network Need to recover old e-mail, folders,
etc. Any and all assistance gratefully appreciated.
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Outlook doesn't have an Address Book. The Outlook Address Book is just a
view of your Contacts folder. If you have a Personal Address Book (.pab)
file, it's obsolete and you shouldn't be using it.

That said, is the data file in C:\Exchange a PST or an OST? If the former,
in Outlook, click FIle>Open>Outlook Data File, browse to C:\Exchange, select
the PST and click OK. How click Tools>E-mail Accounts>Next and at the
bottom left, choose the PST you just added as the delivery location. If the
data file is an OST, post back.
 
Hi Brian.

Thanks for the reply. The address book (Contacts)is Outlook.pst and has
been recovered, but the *.dbx files, such as Inbox.dbx, folders.dbx,
drafts.dbx etc. have not. Need to recover these to continue on the road back
to normalcy, it that will ever be possible. TNX
 
Les said:
Thanks for the reply. The address book (Contacts)is Outlook.pst and
has been recovered, but the *.dbx files, such as Inbox.dbx,
folders.dbx, drafts.dbx etc. have not. Need to recover these to
continue on the road back to normalcy, it that will ever be possible.
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DBX files have nothing to do with Outlook. Those are Outlook Express files.
 
Hi Again Brian,

Understand *.dbx files For Outlook Express. Could you tell me what files
are used by Outlook for Folders, Mail Boxes, etc???

Thanks muchly once again.
 
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