somehow i have managed to get quite large .pst files on my home, office, and laptop computers

[jim sturtz]

i am running Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6626) sp3.

we have an exchange server.

i believe i really should only have the 1 .pst, archive file, no? the
filesizes on the 3 are all different so there must be some difference in
them.

i'm thinking i should get them all onto 1 computer and somehow 'merge' them,
while making sure nothing gets duplicated. should i?

i think i should take the 'do not import duplicate items'?

the instructions for doing an import discuss options about duplicates. if
the testing is based on the entire message i suspect that would be pretty
good validation, but am wondering if it is less rigorous and maybe only
based on date/time/subject or somesuch. anyone know the particulars?

any downside to this i am not considering.

then of course once i have a 'complete' archive, i think i need to turn off
archiving on 2 of the 3 machines. probably that is what got me in trouble.

thanks.

jim

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

I think you should leave the files as-is and just move them somewhere else so
that Outlook creates new archive files. As long as you're able to open each
of them via File | Open (in Outlook), you shouldn't need to merge them. Or,
if you don't need to archive to a file, you can set auto-archive to just
delete old messages instead of saving them.

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[jim sturtz]

thanks.

jim