Moving Your Outlook Personal Folders to a New Workstation

 

 

1.      Outlook Personal Folders are stored on your old local hard drive.  You must save and move them to the C:\My Documents\Outlook folder on your new hard drive.

2.      Right click on the Outlook icon on your desktop and go to “properties” …

 

 

3.      In the “MS Exchange Settings Properties” click on Add.  In  “Add Services to Profile” scroll to “Personal Folders” and click “OK”

 

 

4.  In “Create/Open Personal Folders File” point to C:\My Documents\Outlook\[folder name].pst and select your .pst folder and click “open.”  This action will point Outlook to your personal folder on your hard drive. Then click all “ok” until out of this window.