Cleaning up PST file mess

[jlockley]

I have been through several mail server upsets and have finally landed in a hopefully good exchange server,
During the various setups I have created a few pst files and imported other messages by drag and drop (I didn't know then what I did now - that I create discrete messages by doing so). Now I need to get organized. A few questions:
1) Is there a simple way to tell WHICH pst file is attached to which account? If not, is there a complicated one?
2) Is there an option aside from import to cull duplicates in Outlook?
3) If not, is there a good shareware program (or freeware?) and would it catch the duplicates I created by cutting and pasting.
As always, your sage advice will be appreciated.

 

[58sniper]

1) Is there a simple way to tell WHICH pst file is attached to which account? If not, is there a complicated one?

They aren't associated with accounts as much as they are Outlook profiles

2) Is there an option aside from import to cull duplicates in Outlook?

Not on the Outlook side. Only the Exchange side via Exmerge

3) If not, is there a good shareware program (or freeware?) and would it catch the duplicates I created by cutting and pasting.

Outlook Duplicates Remover

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[jlockley]

Thanks. Then let me rephrase. Is there a way to determine which pst file is attached to which profile. I currently have about three profiles, all for the same address due to the frequent need for server change, and I have about seven or eight pst files.
I tend to be orderly in data management, but this caught me off guard, especially as the folders are not named after the profiles (googleacct.pst, slicehost.pst, mainacct.pst etc) but are simply called outlook1, outlook2, etc.

There are more pst files than profiles, which I assume means that some are smtp information or connection information (those with a series of digits in the title).

Any clarification would be appreciated.

Have you worked with Outlook duplicate manager? Do you happen to know if it will recognize duplicated which have bee ncopied rather than imported into a profile?

 

[58sniper]

If you go into the Control Panel, Mail, Show Profiles, pick a profile, data files. It will show you which .pst files are assigned to that profile.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[jlockley]

I just realized that the default data file is given is you scroll the window to the right (small window does not show this information)
Thanks. Oddly there are two identical files named new chjll@myaccount-com.00000002.pst in yada yada.
Am I correct in assuming that these are not data files but rather store connection information?

Thanks all.
(I have been mucking around in the profiles interface for several days now..this is far from a user friendly appl)