OL98: Working with Personal Folders

• Microsoft Outlook 98

SUMMARY

Personal Folders are folders that you create to store mail messages on your hard disk or on another server. You add a main Personal Folders as a service to the User Profile and give it a file name. Personal Folders have a .pst extension. For Microsoft Mail Post Offices, a Personal Folders is set up automatically because the Inbox and Outlook folders reside there.

MORE INFORMATION

The Personal Folders file contains folders, messages, forms, and files. You work with a Personal Folders file (.pst) as you would with any other file, and you can save, copy, and move a .pst file to another location on your hard disk, a floppy disk, or a server. You can also designate a Personal Folders file as the delivery location for your incoming messages.

If you have installed Outlook with the Internet Mail Only (IMO) option, skip to the "Set the Delivery Location (IMO)" section.

Set the Delivery Location (CW)

1. On the Tools menu, click Services.



2. In the Services dialog box, click the Delivery tab.



3. In the "Deliver new mail to the following location box," click to select where you want to send and receive messages.
   
   If you set up a computer to use Remote Mail, you must click the name of a personal folder file. If you set up a computer to use offline folders, you must click the name of your Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox.



4. Click OK.



5. Quit and restart Outlook.

Set the Delivery Location (IMO)

1. On the File menu, point to New, and click Personal Folders File (.pst).



2. In Create Personal Folders, navigate to the location where you wish to create the file, type a name in the File Name, and click Create.



3. Type a new name for the Personal Folders if you wish, set Encryption Settings, and type a password if you want to password-protect the file, then click OK.



4. On the View menu, click Folder List to display the Folder List.



5. In the Folder List click Personal Folders, and on the File menu, point to Folder and then click Properties.
   
   NOTE: If you created a new name for your Personal Folders, it will appear as Properties for "Your Personal Folders Name."



6. Click to select "Deliver POP mail to this personal folders file," then click OK.



7. Quit and restart Outlook.

Backing Up Your Personal Folders File

1. On the Outlook File menu, click Import And Export to open the Import And Export Wizard.



2. In the "Choose an action to perform" list, click to select "Export to a file" and click Next.



3. In the "Create a file of type" list, click to select "Personal Folder File (.pst), and click Next.



4. In the "Select the folder to export from" list, click "Personal Folders."



5. Click to select the "Include subfolders" check box, and then click Next.



6. In the "Save exported file as" box, type the path and file name of a destination .pst file, or click Browse and select a destination .pst file.



7. Under Options, click to select how you want duplicate items treated, and click Finish.

Backing Up Outlook Folders

1. On the File menu, click Import And Export to open the Import And Export Wizard.



2. In the "Choose an action to perform" list, click to select "Export to a file" and click Next.



3. In the "Create a file of type" list, click to select "Personal Folder File (.pst), and click Next.



4. In the "Select the folder to export from" list, click to select the Outlook item folder you want to back up. For example, select your Contacts folder to back up your Contacts in a different .pst file.



5. Click Next.



6. In the "Save exported file as" box, type the path and file name of a destination .pst file or click Browse and select a destination .pst file.



7. Under Options, click to select how you want duplicate items treated, and click Finish.

Exporting Outlook Folders to Another File Format

1. On the File menu, click Import And Export to open the Import And Export Wizard.



2. In the "Choose an action to perform" list, click to select "Export to a file," and click Next.



3. In the "Create a file of type" list, click to select another file format, such as "Tab Separated Values (Windows)," and click Next.



4. In the "Select the folder to export from" list, click to select the Outlook item folder you want to export. For example, select your Contacts folder to export your Contacts in a different file format.



5. Click Next.



6. In the "Save exported file as" box type a path and file name, or click Browse to select a destination file, then click Next. Click Finish to start the export.

REFERENCES

For more information on Field Mapping in Outlook 98, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Article-ID: Q182728
Title : OL98: Field Mapping for Importing Not Available

Additional query words: 98

Keywords          : GnlFold CfgFold 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: July 26, 1999