Friday, February 10, 2017

Outlook 2010 Is Recreating PST In Old Location When Trying to Move

I have followed the instructions from both here:
Moving Outlook 2010 PST files to a new location
and here: Move an Outlook Data File (.pst) to different folder and I am experiencing a behavior that is frustrating: Outlook is recreating the PST file instead of popping up the error message as documented.


My steps:



  1. close outlook

  2. Browse to location of PST files: (C:\Users\Patrick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook)

  3. Move PST file to new location (D:\docs\Outlook)

  4. Restart Outlook


At this point, I am supposed to get an error message. I do not. Instead I noticed that there are now, new PST files at the original location (C:\Users\Patrick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook) and that the old files are no longer used.


What am I doing wrong?


EDIT
It's NOT an OST file.
It is a PST file mapped to an IMAP account (if that matters).

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