Re: How to change the name of the Outlook.pst file

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"John D Leonard -- Sage" <sage.grp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23hCWnxAkIHA.6084@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Creating multiple user profiles. all logon using one Windows logon.

When I setup the Mail Profiles, it creates a PST file each time (good) i.e.. outlook.pst, outlook1.pst, outlook2.pst.

My question - is there an easy way to rename them to the user name i.e. user1.pst ...etc

The reason I want to do that - I am using the PST password and when it pops up, it shows the Outlook.pst file name at the top and I would like to have it the User's name instead.




Changing the name of the .pst file is obviously not something that has to be done very often so I'm guessing here as to how I did it. My .pst file is called <myusername>.pst. I'm sure when I first setup a mail profile that it was called outlook.pst. With Outlook *not* running, I renamed the file from outlook.pst to <myusername>.pst and then started Outlook which then said it could not find the .pst file it was configured to use. I then pointed the dialog at the renamed file and it continued fine thereafter. So try renaming the .pst file to whatever you want (but leave the .pst extension the same) and tell Outlook where to find it when you start Outlook, and repeat for each mail profile that you created that you select when starting Outlook. This is also how you can move the .pst file to a different location (even to a different drive): move the .pst file, start Outlook, it complains it can't find the file, so point it at where you moved it. When Outlook complains, just point at the newly named or moved file in their Create/Open dialog.

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