Q1) Yes
With OL closed use Mail Applet in Control Panel to manage data files

PS Presumably, in OL2003, you didnt use the unicode format to create a pst
(the new format is not usable in pre OL2003, but doesnt have same size
limitation and is apparently more stable)

"jaygreg" wrote in message
...
I've had to fish my .pst file from my main computer (Windows XP with
Outlook
2003) that was hit by a virus last week and place it on my laptop (Win98SE
with Outlook 2000. I normally keep the file in a subfolder of My Documents
for easy backup but I haven't been religious about that. I sure got
religion
last week though.

I loaded the laptop with a fresh copy of Office 2000 with Outlook and
fired
it up. I saw one set of Personal Folders with an Inbox, Calendar, etc. I
then created another folder in the same subdirectory and placed the
retrieved .pst file into it. I then selected OPEN from the FILE menu,
found
the retrieved folder, and openned it up. It got added directly under the
first set of clean folder created during the original install.

Q1) Are there supposed to be two sets of folders?
Q2) If not, how do I get rid of the first set?

When I openned the retrieved file (the 2nd set of Personal Folders) all
looked well with the exception of birthdays on the calendar. When I would
pull up the individual in the Contacts folder and click the icon
representing the entry on the calendar for the birthdate, I received a
notice that the file couldn't be found. It was referring to a location in
Windows|\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Apparently the program threw
those links into another file... or there's some additional step I need to
take to make this whole again.

Q3) Will someone please comment on this notice and give me some guidance
on
how to get myself out of this fix?