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Hello,
I had to recently reset my user ID in Windows 7 and lost all my Outlook settings - which included all of my archived files that automatically were loaded back into Outlook after each archive event.
I have accumulated ~30 archive files over the course of time.
As a result, I am now faced with the prospect of re-loading these all over again, one-by-one.
Is there a way bulk load ALL 30 of these in one shot? Each PST ranges from 80 to 390mb, with average size around 200mb.
TIA for your replies.
I had to recently reset my user ID in Windows 7 and lost all my Outlook settings - which included all of my archived files that automatically were loaded back into Outlook after each archive event.
I have accumulated ~30 archive files over the course of time.
As a result, I am now faced with the prospect of re-loading these all over again, one-by-one.
Is there a way bulk load ALL 30 of these in one shot? Each PST ranges from 80 to 390mb, with average size around 200mb.
TIA for your replies.
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John
No. You need to import each one. Outlook will not do multiple imports and I have not seen a third party tool to do this.
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Have you heard of this program?
http://www.systoolsgroup.com/add-pst.html
$29.
I've used one of their other products "Outlook PST Viewer" in the past (free version) and it's decent, but I did not know that there was a 3rd party program for this application (mulitple PST files) as well.
http://www.systoolsgroup.com/add-pst.html
$29.
I've used one of their other products "Outlook PST Viewer" in the past (free version) and it's decent, but I did not know that there was a 3rd party program for this application (mulitple PST files) as well.
No, I have not heard of that program and so I cannot comment.
Also, as I read your post again and focus on Archives (which I use all the time), there is no need to even import them.
Set up Outlook and determine where Outlook stores its files. Copy the Archive (.PST) files into the same folder.
Then you only need to open them. For Archives, no need to import.
Also, as I read your post again and focus on Archives (which I use all the time), there is no need to even import them.
Set up Outlook and determine where Outlook stores its files. Copy the Archive (.PST) files into the same folder.
Then you only need to open them. For Archives, no need to import.
I also haven't seen any other way than importing one by one.
I just wanted to ask you if it is really necessary to have that big amount of pst files?
I normally try to have pst files smaller than 5GBs, but I have seen pst files bigger than 25GBs. Outlook 2010 has default pst size limit set to 50GBs. So having 3 psts instead of 30 will ease your life.
I just wanted to ask you if it is really necessary to have that big amount of pst files?
I normally try to have pst files smaller than 5GBs, but I have seen pst files bigger than 25GBs. Outlook 2010 has default pst size limit set to 50GBs. So having 3 psts instead of 30 will ease your life.
Just another point as I think about this. You really do not want to import all your archives into your main PST. Then you just have to archive all over again. Just open your archives as you need to.
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John: I meant "Open" and not "Import", actually.
Davorin: Are you saying to "Merge" all 30 of these into ONE single PST file? How is that done?
Have you seen this article? http://www.msoutlook.info/question/207
Davorin: Are you saying to "Merge" all 30 of these into ONE single PST file? How is that done?
Have you seen this article? http://www.msoutlook.info/question/207
So just copy the files to your folder and open as needed. You cannot open them all at once. There is no way for that.
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John: when you say "copy the files to your folder and open as needed" - how can I do that "copy" action? I thought I had to go to the "FILE" and then "OPEN" dialogs to initialize the "OPEN" command.
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1 - I have Win7, 64 bit.
2 - That is part of my issues. Due to the computer having a SS HD, space is limited. So what I've been doing when archiving is manually pointing to my D:\Backups\Outlook (which is 0.5 TB).
Now, for this process, I will have to "Open" them manually one-by-one. Is there a way to "Force" Outlook to put them in the D:\Backups\Outlook instead of the Outlook data folder by default?
2 - That is part of my issues. Due to the computer having a SS HD, space is limited. So what I've been doing when archiving is manually pointing to my D:\Backups\Outlook (which is 0.5 TB).
Now, for this process, I will have to "Open" them manually one-by-one. Is there a way to "Force" Outlook to put them in the D:\Backups\Outlook instead of the Outlook data folder by default?
You can put the Archives on another drive, but then you need to point Outlook to them. I do not of any way to automate all this. You have a huge pile of archives. I have 20 years of emails and about 5 archives.
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@pelampe - Thanks, and I was happy to help.