Sharing e-mail folders

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Dear Newsgroup --
I have been trying to shed our my e-mail folders are crossed my home network. I have a "shared" folder into which I can load specific files and folders, but it does not seem to work for e-mail folders such as "inbox," "sent items," "deleted items," and things of that nature.

I would love to be able to share this data between my desktop and my laptop. Please help.

Yours Truly,


Eric Goldin

Eric Goldin


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My News said:
I have been trying to shed our my e-mail folders are crossed my
home network. I have a "shared" folder into which I can load
specific files and folders, but it does not seem to work for e-mail
folders such as "inbox," "sent items," "deleted items," and things of
that nature.

I would love to be able to share this data between my desktop and
my laptop. Please help.
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See if this helps: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm . You can
also try an UNSUPPORTED approach. Close Outlook on the desktop and laptop.
On the desktop, create a folder and share it to the network. Move your PST
to that shared folder. Restart Outlook. When it complains that it can't
find its folders, browse to their new location, select the PST, and click
OK. Outlook will now open as always. Close it again.

On the laptop, rename the PST to something else (but keep the ".pst" file
type). Start Outlook, and when it complains, browse to the PST on the
network share. Now you'll be using exactly the same folders on both. You
can then also open the old PST on the laptop and either use it as an
unshared PST on the laptop or move the data in it to the shared PST.

Note that only one copy of Outlook will be able to be opened at any one
time. If the PST is open and your network glitches, it could ruin your PST,
so backup often. Also, instead of moving the delivery location PST on
either machine, you can keep the same, private PST as the delivery location
on each machine and just open a third PST that you'll share vie the network
share. Move into it just that data you wish to share, keeping the rest in
the main PST. With this arrangement, if your network glitches, you'll still
have access to your main folders even though the shared folders won't be
available.
 
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