I'm not sure what I did either LOL but I do want to delete all but the
correct one. I will have to do it one by one removing it out of the folder,
if OL still works then all is ok. When I am down to the only pst file that
works I have cleaned out the bad ones.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Jon

"DL" wrote:

I'm not entirely sure what you did, but anyhow its now working.
Just remember do not use Import/Export on a pst, with OL closed copy, then
open within OL
The link Brian gave has good info on OL

"Jon" wrote in message
...
DL and Brian,

I was not smarting off, just frustrated things don't work as they should
when I try them at times.

I did what all of you said, still had some problems so sort of did it a
different "my way" thing. C drive, made folder & named it then moved file
there.

Then followed instructions and still would not work right, kept making new
Personal Folders but were emptied. Finally got one good on in. Could not
delete default folder.

copied and moved everything to default, calendar one by one items.

Deleted now the good dup. and things work.

Now I have no idea how many and where they all are but would like to find
and delete all OL files other then the good one.

Plan to delete all on back up drive then make new "export file" to it.

Unless you people have a better idea as I am open to learning better ways
to
do things.

Nasty quetion here, what other mail/address book programs are out there
that
work or can be configured like Outlook and are any of them any good, easy
to
use etc.? Would like to see them but doubt I would change, been using OL
for so long doubt I would like anything else.

Just want to look at them.

Thanks again for your help.

Jon

"DL" wrote:

To add, a personal observation, I've seen to many people have problems
when
saving files to the desktop.
Dont know specifically why, as Brian states, the Desktop is part of the
HD,
just seems to give probs.later.

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Jon wrote:

DL unless you consider the DESKTOP part of my internal HD then NO,
but if you consider it that they YES.

Well of course the desktop is on your hard drive. Your desktop is a
reflection of the contents of C:\Documents and
Settings\{username}\Desktop.
If you save a file to your desktop, you're actually saving in in the
folder
I named.

I use an external HD for all my backups and that is where the PST
resides. When I installed Outlook and went there for the PST file
everything worked just fine, from the external HD but I did not know
that till I turned it off. (do not keep it on, only when backing
up).

Tried to do what Oliver suggested but same problem, would not open
if
external HD was off so I figured if I copied the PST to the desktop
then opened it things would work once I deleted the copied files. I
was wrong.

As long as you have a reference to that external drive in your mail
profile,
Outlook will try to use that reference. DL was suggesting one way to
modify
the mail profile so it doesn't contain the reference. If it still
complains
after following his advice, then there's another reference in the mail
profile that wasn't changed.

So it sits on my desktop so I can use Outlook. All I can say is I
am no expert with computers but do understand them.

As of now it is still on my desktop and that is not where it belongs
yet I have no idea where my PST should be.

In the C drive someplace but where is the question.

Outlook doesn't give two hoots where on your hard drive you keep the
PST
as
long as it has read/write permission to it. By default, if you create
a
new
PST, the default folder where it will create it is %UserProfile%\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook, but you can't move a PST
into
that folder and expect Outlook to start using it automatically. You
have
to
tell Outlook to use a PST through the mail profile, either using the
Mail
applet in Control Panel or by opening the PST in Outlook.

If I were in your shoes, I'd stop Outlook, out the PST where you want
it,
use the Mail applet to create a new profile (you'll have to add your
mail
accounts over again), and add that PST to the mail profile. You can
do
this
all from the Mail applet without starting Outlook. Directions can be
found
in Microsoft's Knowledgebase
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us)
or in various places on the Internet, like
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm
--
Brian Tillman