Re: Too Many Personal Folders

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Oscar <oc40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. This is all untraveled ground to me, but I
read the link and a new profile sounds a whole lot better than a
regedit. If I can still use the pst file, what's the downside to a
new profile? In this situation, why would someone choose to do
something other than a new profile? Thanks again for your help.

The downside is that it affects some current settings. It doesn't carry over any accounts from another profile. You have to redefine the accounts, reset the send/receive settings, and if you use autocompletion, your cache starts afresh (although that can be addressed by renaming the NK2 file with Outlook closed).
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Brian Tillman 

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