Setting up Gmail - re use the pst?

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Vincenzo

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Outlook 2016 32 bit
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I moved my friend's pst file to his newly restored Windows 7 computer. I put it in the same location in Documents/Outlook files. (He uses Outlook to access his Gmail account, I'm assuming it was set up as IMAP).

Then I opened Outlook 2010 and set up the account, letting Outlook auto configure it, and it set it up as IMAP. I was expecting the chance to tell it to use the old Outlook file, but I never saw that option. It created a new pst file in the same location in Documents. I copied over the info that I needed by opening the old pst, but I am wondering if there was a way I could have told Outlook to use the old pst file. I do seem to remember reading once that you cannot re use an IMAP pst, but I am not sure if that refers to the pst in Documents or the one in AppData. Thanks
 
OK thanks. Is that true of both of the pst files that Outlook creates for IMAP accounts? I seem to have one pst that I believe is for Contacts and Calendar, and another one for the emails. Thanks
 
No, only the email pst. You can use any local pst for calendar and contacts.
 
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