What is "Top of Personal Folders" created in a pst merge?

[Guest]

When I merged several pst folders, the one I merged into created two new
folders called "Top of Personal Folders" and "Top of Personal Folders1". One
of them seems to be a duplicate of my root Personal Folders (into which I
merged various pst folders I had scattered around my hard drive). The second
one doesn't have as many emails, but has all the folders and subfolders I
created in the root Personal Folders folder.

How can I merge these into the root Personal Folders folder, rather than
have them appear as subfolders?

Where did they come from?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

"Where did they come from?"
How should we know if you don't tell us how you merged them? Merging is not
a native function in any version of Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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When I merged several pst folders, the one I merged into created two new
folders called "Top of Personal Folders" and "Top of Personal Folders1".
One
of them seems to be a duplicate of my root Personal Folders (into which I
merged various pst folders I had scattered around my hard drive). The
second
one doesn't have as many emails, but has all the folders and subfolders I
created in the root Personal Folders folder.

How can I merge these into the root Personal Folders folder, rather than
have them appear as subfolders?

Where did they come from?

 

[Guest]

I imported several pst's into my main, current "personal folders" using the
File Import and Export wizard under the file tab in Outlook 2003. They are
the "old" style pst's (98-03). I thought that would merge the various pst's
into one.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Aha, well during the import you can specify to which folder you want to
import. Importing from pst to pst isn't really something I would do since
the pst-file format is native to Outlook. You can connect to an additional
pst-file by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File... After this you can manually
move the folders to any location you like in another set of folders. This
way you are much more in control of where things will end up.

 

[Guest]

OK, but are the "Top of Personal Foders" folders just copies of the pst files
I imported?

I'll try moving things around in folders just as soon as I get my new
computer in a week or so (slow shipping). For the time being, I'm using a
loaner. I'll let you know how I do.

Thanks for your help.

Aha, well during the import you can specify to which folder you want to
import. Importing from pst to pst isn't really something I would do since
the pst-file format is native to Outlook. You can connect to an additional
pst-file by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File... After this you can manually
move the folders to any location you like in another set of folders. This
way you are much more in control of where things will end up.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I imported several pst's into my main, current "personal folders" using the
File Import and Export wizard under the file tab in Outlook 2003. They are
the "old" style pst's (98-03). I thought that would merge the various pst's
into one.

"Where did they come from?"
How should we know if you don't tell us how you merged them? Merging is
not
a native function in any version of Outlook.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
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When I merged several pst folders, the one I merged into created two new
folders called "Top of Personal Folders" and "Top of Personal Folders1".
One
of them seems to be a duplicate of my root Personal Folders (into which I
merged various pst folders I had scattered around my hard drive). The
second
one doesn't have as many emails, but has all the folders and subfolders I
created in the root Personal Folders folder.

How can I merge these into the root Personal Folders folder, rather than
have them appear as subfolders?

Where did they come from?