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Using old .pst file in Outlook 2010
There are a lot of questions about this and none of the proposed solutions seems to work for me. Now that MS has moved on to the 2013 version of the software, it still does not work on 2010. What did people do? Here is the problem.
I have a .pst file from Outlook 2007 on an old computer. I want to use that same .pst file on a new computer running Outlook 2010. I want all my new mail to go to the old .pst file and nowhere else. Now here is what I've tried and what seems to happen:
When starting O'2010 it needs your email address. I create that but then it creates a new .pst file named myname@mydomain.com.pst. And it creates it in C:/Users/myname/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook. If I try to move the new .pst file to the folder entitled C:/Users/myname/Documents/Outlook Files, then when I restart Outlook it recreates the deleted .pst file back in the AppData folder.
The people who seem to have fixed this have changed from IMAP to POP and configured manually. When I tried that I got a failure message when it tried to test the account. Is there a way to reuse the old .pst file with an IMAP account?