Outlook 2007 Profiles assistance

[hwince]

In Outlook 2007 under Win Vista Premium Home, I have set up multiple
profiles into which I have imported previously created .pst files for
common e-mail (POP3) addresses under Win XP Pro. I have imported these
files into Profiles A, B, C and D. Now when I look in the Outlook
folder in Vista, I find Outlook.pst, Outlook1.pst, Outlook2.pst,
Outlook3.pst and Outlook4.pst files. How do I rename these .pst files
to more meaningful names or create new .pst files with those
appropriate names? Also, during the importing of these files, I now
have created multiple "Personal Folders". It appears that these are
duplicates of each other, but I have not looked at every message to
verify this. Did I miss some setting during the import that caused
this? Now do I simply delete any duplications? Thanks for any guidance.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You certainly did miss a lot, like the countless posts in this group.
Importing is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. Doing so will
corrupt your nice new Outlook profiles. Renaming PST files would make things
even worse. State just what you want to do next and why you cannot live with
your corrupt profiles. Read the posts in this group on how to transfer
Outlook data correctly.

 

[hwince]

You certainly did miss a lot, like the countless posts in this group.
Importing is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. Doing so will
corrupt your nice new Outlook profiles. Renaming PST files would make things
even worse. State just what you want to do next and why you cannot live with
your corrupt profiles. Read the posts in this group on how to transfer
Outlook data correctly.
--
Russ Valentine





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Hello Russ,
Thanks for your condescending advice and guidance. You might have
noticed my posts to this group and in Outlook Express starting June 30
in which the advice was to use importing procedures, which I followed
as precisely as I knew how, to achieve my migration from OE under Win
XP to Outlook 2007 under Vista. Sorry I didn't get in touch with you
earlier so I could have avoided the pitfalls. At any rate, it appears
that I now have the Outlook Express data migrated to Outlook 2007 even
though it is what I call CORRUPTED. Maybe duplicated data and non-
meaningful file names is the best we can achieve in Outlook, but, if
so, that's sad -- and technically disappointing. It would be great if
we were all as skilled as you MVP veterans. If you have anything
helpful to offer further, I'll be checking back. Henry

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Importing is what you do when you need to transfer data from one type of
file to another, as you did when you transferred from OE to Outlook. When
you already have an Outlook data file, you would not import that. You would
just open it in Outlook. Outlook does not know what to do when you import a
PST file, so it will usually just create a duplicate or "ghost" file which
you cannot close, and that profile is then corrupt.
I still don't have a clear description of where things currently stand with
your profiles. Is that what you're seeing? Do you have duplicate files? Can
you R click and close either of these files?
Every time you create a new profile, Outlook will create a new PST file
called "outlook.pst." Since you created 4 profiles, you now have 4 different
PST files (outlook "1-4"). Why do you want to rename those files and what is
it you are trying to achieve? Do you want each profile to use the same data
file or a separate one?