If you go to Data File Managment you can create a new PST wherever you like,
then inside create folders or drag folders from your Personal Folders
(outlook.pst) inside outlook. As Russ Valentine says don't bother with the
Import/Export.

The end result will then turn out something like this:

Personal Folders
|-Deleted Items
|-Inbox
|-Outbox
|-Sent Items
|-Calendar
|-Contacts
|-Journal
|-Notes
|-Tasks
|-Drafts
|-Junk E-mail
Project A
|-Contacts
|-Email
|- ....
Archive Folders
|- ....


O

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Importing and exporting is never the correct way to transfer Outlook data.
You can create a PST file anywhere you want it on your hard drive and open
it in Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Peter" wrote in message
...
I've tried this before, but it works only partly!
1) I've exported the existing folder as a seperate A.pst
2) then I shifted it to the location on the hard disc where I want it
3) then I have problems with the import: it works, but it seems to me
that
the
location where it looks is still outlook.pst
--
PETER


"OS" wrote:

Would using seperate PST files (saved wherever you want on your
harddrive)
with only a contacts folder and the mail files you mention in there be a
good solution for you? I dont beleive you can just have a folder in
outlook
mapped to a real folder on your computer.

Oliver

"Peter" wrote in message
...
I want to assign the mails and addresses of a project (lets call it A)
to a
seperate folder individually on the Harddisk (where all my other
project-A
related files are stored).
This would enable me also to save/backup all project-A files including
the
outlook files individually (e.g.on a CD...).

What do I have to do, to install a folder, which is not saved in the
general
outlook.pst-file (the general outlook-file is too big and contains all
other
projects).
I use outlook 2007 & 2003.
In Outlook I have a project structure -- project A
--
MailsIn
--
MailsOut
--
Addresses
project
B....

If possible, I'd like to maintain this structure.
The incoming and outgoing mails could still be transferred through the
"personal folder" (=outlook.pst). I'd like to sort it manually and
assign
the
mails to the individual folders.

Can anybody give me an instruction on how to set up this.
Now I have all projects in this common.pst-file, and each project
already
in
seperate folders (as shown above).

thanks
--
PETER