"Lee" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
news:48e24a100ffc8c998c86d09b820@news.wanadoo.fr...
> Hello Gordon,
>
>> You might find that that will cause a problem with Outlook if you are
>> using it....
>>
>
> Yes, well I copy and move my Outlook files with Import and Export, as a
> way of keeping Outlook on the two machines synchronised, although I find
> the method cumbersome.
Don't use Import/export for pst files. Just copy the file with Outlook
closed ,open it on the other machine and drag and drop data. Why not
export/import?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])
Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists
Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.
>
> Now, having got them up and running I use a simple freeware sync app,
> GoodSync V6, to keep the Document files in sync. I did try to get XP's
> Synchronise to do the job but had no luck with it. No folders i tried to
> sync showed up in the Synch window. I have one XP Pro and one XP Home
> with simple file sharing on both. I tried for a while to get the
> Synchronise option to work but when I started to get into it too deep I
> pulled out and just opted to used a freeware app.
>
> It seems strange to have two Application Data folders both with a number
> of the same folders in them, such as Adobe, Microsoft, Identities, each of
> which seems to contain doubles of the other folder. If thats the way it
> works, thats fine, I was just afraid I had inadvertantly coppied the
> Application folder into the wrong place.
>
> Much obliged to you for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Lee
>
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