I am trying to export my E-mail ACCOUNT settings from one copy of Outlook 2010 so that I can import them in another copy of Office 2010 on a different computer.  Again, BOTH computers have Office 2010 on them.  While I can move the PST file, my E-mail account information never comes across.  How can I do that without having to enter each account separately.  Also is it normal for the E-mail accounts to show up as DATA FILES rathan than E-MAIL FILES?  I've never come this in the past.

 

Thanks.

To move your accounts, do this:
- start - run - regedit - search for: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook and export it.
After you import it on to the new PC, you will have the enter the passwords for those e-mail accounts.

To move your accounts, do this:
- start - run - regedit - search for: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook and export it.
After you import it on to the new PC, you will have the enter the passwords for those e-mail accounts.

Alexandru,

This is SO BOSS it isn't funny.  I have two computers, (a desktop and a laptop), that I am constantly migrating Outlook 2010 back-and-forth between them.

Moving the ACCOUNT information has always been a stumbling block, and since my particular Outlook configuration encompasses several distinct accounts, migrating all this information is, and was, a PAIN.

Your solution saved me massive money in import-export software, for which I thank you!

 

Jim (JR)

Thanks so much.  What a life saver after replacing my laptop.  This has greatly simplified bringing my contacts over.  Much appreciated.

What a life saver - I have several profiles with many accounts each. I hated the thought of spending several hours trying to set it up on multiple PC's at my house.

I am glad that my answer has helped you all.

Thanks, what a time saver. So easy and fast.

Once I import the reg files, can I move the pst file over to the 2nd PC and have it work with the old pst?

Yes.

That is an excellent solution Alexandru - Do you know how I can do this similarly from a windows machine to a Mac running Mac Outlook 2011?

Thank you.

Wish I'd known this BEFORE I migrated from XP to Win7.  Silly me, I figured everything would follow with the .pst file, or be migrated by Easy Transfer (which otherwise seems to have worked surprisingly well.) I did a clean install to a brand new drive, so the XP drive and data files are still on a separate disk, but the registry is now Win7's, so I don't see how I can use this method (nor try!).  Is there no file I can copy over from the XP fileset or something?  Although I suppose if there were, you wouldn't have us messing with the Registry.

As JHarris1993 said, this is BOSS! Thank you. 

I used this solution to recreate a profile I was using under one Windows 7 account in another account on the same machine. The profile was successfully recreated but I noticed that the email accounts in the profile were still pointing to the data files from the other account, which is not surprising at all. 

Unfortunately no easy way exists for re-pointing email accounts to alternate file locations. I have five different email accounts in this profile (2 IMAP, 2 Outlook Hotmail Connector and one Exchange), and looks like there are solutions and workaround for each type of account which work with varying degrees of success.

Changing location of pst data file for IMAP email account

Changing location of ost data file for an Exchange email account

Changing location of ost data file for a Hotmail Connector email account

Thanks Again,

Jaspreet

Thanks!

I am glad that my solution is a good one.

Also, thanks for the additional info.

The instructions on doing the export were crystal clear. Not so much on the import side. Do I do the import inside Outlook, or from the regedit program?

Thanks this will be a big help.

You first close Outlook and then run the exported file, by double clicking on it.

Press Yes to confirm the action and that is all.

Thanks so much, you were a life and time saver. I did as you said, then ran Outlook 2010 and all the accounts were there minus passwords. On my main Hotmail account it wouldn't login. Ran the Hotmail Outlook connector and removed restored the email. The others I figured out how to click change instead of removing and just adding the passwords. I have my non-Plus Yahoo account routed through Singapore, so I can use it in Outlook. I'm using the trial 2013 Pro Plus. I like it a little better than 2010 but it's not a big leap forward. Still as yet I can tell, there is no way to backup and restore without doing something like I did with this export/import. And I think you should be able to sync Outlook between at least two or three PC's or Mac's out the box. If MS can spend Billions on Skype, why not buy a couple small Outlook addon software companies for some pocket change and add some of these features. Between Android and open source software, MS days are numbered. Plus I think Office 2013 is an improvement, but Win 8 sucks to me. A touch screen OS forced on 90% of the PC's and laptops which are non-TS? I know they missed the boat way after Apple's iPhone and Google's Android were sailing. But to try to catch up with lame software won't work. Enough ranting, with all said I like the company by and large, but they need to be more customer friendly. Chrysler didn't make the best Mini-Vans, but they kept market share by price and giving Soccer Moms the features they wanted. Google has the edge with its open-source approach. With Steve Jobs gone Apple doesn't seem to have the vision into the mind of the consumer it had under his reign.

I notice the email accounts are there but the Hotmail & Live accounts can't seem to find the backup pst I created in my Google Drive folder. I will try to close Outlook and copy it (the backup pst) to the Outlook files folder.

I'm still getting a "data file cannot be accessed" error message.

I hope you can clue me in on how to straighten this mess out. I am generally tech savy, most people wouldn't even consider setting up Outlook themselves. But I remember MS Money, you could open a past data file and pretty much all your accounts and everything else was there. It would be nice if Outlook worked like that.

Go to Control Panel - Mail and there, choose the data file.

Add them through that menu.

I see all the folders but I do not see the email accounts per se. :-(

Should I have done this procedure before opening up Outlook after the first install which asks me to create an ccount (Which I did not do)?

Should I uninstall Outlook and reinstall it?

Thanks

Well I have uninstall Off2010, then reinstall it, but I still can't receive emails. :-( I see all my past emails but can't download new one.

Is there a difference if I use W7-64bit?

Now I understand. I did export the proper information but it was not from the proper registry.

Here is my situation. I have already installed W7 and I have a windows.old file. I use the Regedit from this folder, but it did not use the old regedit but the new one. Is there a way to extract the information from the old registry?

I tried to import the setting to a newly set up laptop for which i used a different username. This didn't work because the settings couldn't follow the path to the outlook files; the /users/username part didn't match.

After setting up the laptop with the same username it worked like a charm. Thank you!