Comments on: Outlook Personal Folders Issue

Question: Outlook Personal Folders Issue

maxwelton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:50:57 -0800

Outlook 2007: Made a mistake; can I fix it?

I deleted the email account associated with my main PST "personal folders" tree (the bit where you tell it where to connect, not the actual inbox or anything). I now cannot seem to create a new email account which uses this old tree, despite, to all appearances, there being no account associated with it. Am I totally hosed? How do I get all of my contacts, calendar items, email rules, old email folder tree, and all that garbage to the new PST, if that's my only option?

I have no genuinely recent backup of this file, just auto-archived subsets. I know, I know. I thought I did.

By: misanthropicsarah

misanthropicsarah — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:01:01 -0800

what do you mean you deleted the email account? deleted it from outlook? you should still be able to access your old pst even if you have no email addresses set up in outlook. was it an work one that's an exchange address? or like a personal yahoo/gmail one? if an exchange one that might be the basis of your problem.

By: roboton666

roboton666 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:46:28 -0800

You need to import the PST file.

The location of the PST:
(from: Microsoft.Com)

Windows Vista
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Microsoft Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

How to Import:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/import-outlook-items-from-a-personal-folders-file-pst-HA102538008.aspx

By: roboton666

roboton666 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:47:00 -0800

What I'm saying is, create the new account, then import the PST

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:47:20 -0800

I can access the old PST. What I cannot make happen is put email into that PST's inbox, because trying to associate an email account with it brings up a message saying that the folder is already in use.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:59:48 -0800

I'm an idiot. While during account setup it says you can't use personal folders, it turns out all pop boxes go into that inbox anyway. Many thanks for suggestions and help.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:00:46 -0800

(As I said to a friend, don't let me near this stuff. I can program, but for some reason system stuff just is a disaster when I get involved.)

By: roboton666

roboton666 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:50:21 -0800

Ahh..Now I see, I remember that problem. There's a place where you can set the default folder for incoming mail. I forget where that is though.