Operate with external hard drive only?

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Ticklz

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Hi All,

I have a HP Desktop (for home office) and a Lenovo Laptop (for when travelling). Both run Vista Ultimate and Office 2007.

Basically, I want to have my Outlook data files and some other program data files on an external hard drive and to contemporaneously access that external hard drive as I run the program.

This way I can leave the data files on the external hard disk, so that when I leave the home office I can simply unplug the external hard drive from the desktop and plug it into my laptop, without having to export and import.

I know word and excel files can be open and written to an external hard drive. But Outlook seems to work differently.

Can this be done? I’m not sure if it can be done with USB or Firewire or Ethernet cabIe??

I contacted Microsoft tech support and they said it couldn’t. Which I think is really silly.

I can’t be the first person that’s thought of this.

Has anyone else in the forum set this up? I’d greatly appreciate any help in how to set this up?

Thanks a lot :)
 
Until the account settings change the settings and have a folder on the external hard drive on where the files are... i can post instructions latter if need be......
 
cohen said:
Until the account settings change the settings and have a folder on the external hard drive on where the files are... i can post instructions latter if need be......
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Cheers, Cohen. So I need to change the account settings. Do you have more info?
 
OK, here we go:

  1. Open up outlook
  2. Tools
  3. Account Settings
  4. Personal Folders
  5. Open Folder
  6. Create "Outlook" folder on external hard drive
  7. Copy & paste the outlook PST file onto the external hard drive


  1. Open up outlook
  2. Tools
  3. Account Settings
  4. Personal Folders
  5. Change Folder
  6. Choose the folder on your external hard drive you would like the "outlook" folder on your external hard drive.

As long as your hard drive is the same letter on both machines you should be fine.
 
Cohen, thanks for your reply.

The issue that I have with what you are suggesting is that it seems to only relate to e-mails, it doesn't linkup contacts and calendar to the external hard drive.
 
I've spoken to a few peple and they've recommneded I install Office on the USB external hard drive. Has anyone does this and it worked?
 
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