Syncing Outlook

[babs]

I have searched this question extensively - and I see others asking
the same question - but haven't found a definitive answer yet.

Need: A way to sync/mirror my Outlook files - email folders, calendar,
contacts - from my desktop to my laptop and then back again when I
return home.

I bought a Maxtor Once Touch III External Hard drive that I was hoping
would help with this - but the One Touch software won't handle .pst
files according to the liturature.

So I thought ok, I'll use the backup unitlity I had downloaded from
Microsoft - however have discovered that it won't give me the "backup
now" button on the file menu anymore (have uninstalled and reinstalled
multiple times). So it's useless.

So I went looking for a 3rd party app. I am considering using Roboform
that had a sister program GoodSync - but emails to them have produced
no useful information on how to perform the desired operation.

Ran across another site that talked about renaming the path for the
Outlook pst file into a My Documents file and using that as a back-up
(which I'm assuming my Maxtor software could then see). So doing it
that way - would I then use a "backup/retore operation on" to bring
each entity up to date after use? A little afraid of possible date
confusion issues if I forget to plug the laptop back in after using it
though, although I do have another proprietary software that I have to
do that process with.

Also looked at SyncBack that seems to work as well. Just don;t wnat to
be buing a ton of $30 programs I may or may not need!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, babs asked:

| I have searched this question extensively - and I see others asking
| the same question - but haven't found a definitive answer yet.
|
| Need: A way to sync/mirror my Outlook files - email folders, calendar,
| contacts - from my desktop to my laptop and then back again when I
| return home.
|
| I bought a Maxtor Once Touch III External Hard drive that I was hoping
| would help with this - but the One Touch software won't handle .pst
| files according to the liturature.
|
| So I thought ok, I'll use the backup unitlity I had downloaded from
| Microsoft - however have discovered that it won't give me the "backup
| now" button on the file menu anymore (have uninstalled and reinstalled
| multiple times). So it's useless.
|
| So I went looking for a 3rd party app. I am considering using Roboform
| that had a sister program GoodSync - but emails to them have produced
| no useful information on how to perform the desired operation.
|
| Ran across another site that talked about renaming the path for the
| Outlook pst file into a My Documents file and using that as a back-up
| (which I'm assuming my Maxtor software could then see). So doing it
| that way - would I then use a "backup/retore operation on" to bring
| each entity up to date after use? A little afraid of possible date
| confusion issues if I forget to plug the laptop back in after using it
| though, although I do have another proprietary software that I have to
| do that process with.
|
| Also looked at SyncBack that seems to work as well. Just don;t wnat to
| be buing a ton of $30 programs I may or may not need!

 

[babs]

Take a look here, it may help:http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

Thank you Milly.

In trying to find out if I can do this with existing sync program -
can I use the method I've come across to rename the Outlook file path
on the desktop computer to a My Documents - Outlook- folder and use
the Maxtor OneTouch Sync program to sync those files withthe laptop
and then have the laptop Outlook look at that same file pathway?

Would that in essence sync the files?