My laptop died, so I took my backup of my outlook PST file (I believe
it is in 2002 format) and copied it to my new laptop. I installed
Outlook 2007, configured a profile and added the backed-up PST file. I
set it as the default file and then restarted Outlook and removed the
empty outlook.pst file.

My server is POP3

In the past I had set the option "leave a copy of messages on the
server" so that I can read emails from the web or from outlook. Now I
have 10,000 emails.

My problem is that Outlook 2007 is attempting to download all 10,000
emails from the server again. It seems to have lost track of which
emails it has already downloaded despite having the old PST file
attached. If I let it download all 10,000 emails, I think it will work
and continue OK but it will take a while and I will have 10,000
duplicates to clean up.

I have tried removing and re-adding my profile and removing and re-
adding the pst file but all to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Karen