REPOST: Load up different pst file for main personal folder?

[JDS]

My Outlook 2003 is currently pointing to the wrong .pst file. I want to
change it but all I seem to do is open a new Personal Folders group which I
don't need. How do I open the correct file for data in original Personal
Folder?

 

[Gordon]

My Outlook 2003 is currently pointing to the wrong .pst file. I want to
change it but all I seem to do is open a new Personal Folders group which
I don't need. How do I open the correct file for data in original
Personal Folder?

In Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File

 

[JDS]

Thanks. Problem was old file was named Outlook1 and I had to close Outlook
and rename before it worked.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks. Problem was old file was named Outlook1 and I had to close Outlook
and rename before it worked.

Just not true at all.

 

[mchsi]

Brian you've helped many times before. I really apprecaite it.

I wonder what would cause it to be OK now then? I do see the data I was
looking for.

The whole story is that the PC/Outlook 2003 that had the problem, actually
uses a "sync'd" file (syncing from another PC). The file being sync'd is
named Outlook1. The file being opened on synced PC was Outlook. So,
renaming it seems to work.

Did I back into it somehow?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

The whole story is that the PC/Outlook 2003 that had the problem, actually
uses a "sync'd" file (syncing from another PC). The file being sync'd is
named Outlook1. The file being opened on synced PC was Outlook. So,
renaming it seems to work.

Did I back into it somehow?

I think you did back into it. Mail profiles point to specific PSTs. If the
PST which a mail profile references gets moved out of the way and another PST
renamed to match the name of the first, the mail profile can become corrupted
because, which the name of the file still matches, the file itself is not
physically the same file and there are structures in the mail profile that can
become invalid because of that. It's rare that changing the name of a PST so
that it matches the name in the mail profile works out.

 

[JDS]

should i just creat a new profile and import mail, calendar, contacts, etc.?
or will that just import the errors?