Multiple PST Files With Different Names In Outlook?

When creating individual PST files, I am able to give them unique names, but when you look on the folders through outlook, they all bare the same name… and that’s creates some confusion.

Yes, and once again Outlook makes it non-obvious, but it’s changeable.

You can name your PST files anything you want: “foo.pst,” “bar.pst,” whatever. My favorite is that once a year I copy my “personal.pst” to something like “2006.pst” and start a new yearly archive.

The problem is that when you open those as additional PSTs in Outlook (using File, Open, Outlook Data File…), they show up in the folder list with the very same names they had before.

You may have several PSTs open, but it’s hard to tell which is which if they’re all called “Personal Folders.”

Easily solved, though not obvious. In the Folder List…

1. Right click on the top item in the PST you want to rename (probably “Personal Folders”)

2. Click on Properties
3. Click on the Advanced… button