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From: Snapper on 29 Jun 2008 05:53 I created a new user account on my PC. I wanted to see if I could synchronise my mobile phone's data with a new account in Outlook without the existing data being corrupted or conflicts being created. After I created the new account (name of "Motorola" after the phone that I use) I logged in as that and then ran Motorola Phone Tools to synch the phone and Outlook. What I found after I ran Outlook is that all the data from my normal account was there. I have set multiple accounts up on the laptop and this has not occured. Each user has their own Outlook data, calendar entries, contacts, email addresses and so on. But on my desktop PC which until half an hour ago had only one user account, this did not occur. Why would this happen?
From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] on 29 Jun 2008 08:28 According to your description, you ran your synchronization software before you configured your Outlook profile. Surely you wouldn't do that and expect things to function normally. Why would you create an entire Windows user account and not just another Outlook profile? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Snapper" <snapper1(a)y7mail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:jnme641m172sf96d9fol232oi0pthpkdaj(a)yarwho.com... >I created a new user account on my PC. I wanted to see if I could >synchronise my > mobile phone's data with a new account in Outlook without the existing > data > being corrupted or conflicts being created. > > After I created the new account (name of "Motorola" after the phone that I > use) > I logged in as that and then ran Motorola Phone Tools to synch the phone > and > Outlook. > > What I found after I ran Outlook is that all the data from my normal > account was > there. I have set multiple accounts up on the laptop and this has not > occured. > Each user has their own Outlook data, calendar entries, contacts, email > addresses and so on. But on my desktop PC which until half an hour ago had > only > one user account, this did not occur. > > Why would this happen? >
From: Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) on 29 Jun 2008 12:49 Because you pointed your Motorola account at the same .PST file that your regular account uses. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Snapper" <snapper1(a)y7mail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:jnme641m172sf96d9fol232oi0pthpkdaj(a)yarwho.com: > I created a new user account on my PC. I wanted to see if I could synchronise my > mobile phone's data with a new account in Outlook without the existing data > being corrupted or conflicts being created. > > After I created the new account (name of "Motorola" after the phone that I use) > I logged in as that and then ran Motorola Phone Tools to synch the phone and > Outlook. > > What I found after I ran Outlook is that all the data from my normal account was > there. I have set multiple accounts up on the laptop and this has not occured. > Each user has their own Outlook data, calendar entries, contacts, email > addresses and so on. But on my desktop PC which until half an hour ago had only > one user account, this did not occur. > > Why would this happen?
From: Snapper on 29 Jun 2008 21:34 Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote... > According to your description, you ran your synchronization software before > you configured your Outlook profile. I had with the original user profile, but not when I created the second one. I ran it afterwards. > Surely you wouldn't do that and expect things to function normally. > Why would you create an entire Windows user account and not just another > Outlook profile? I don't know how to do that. Hence why I tried it under a different user profile.
From: Snapper on 29 Jun 2008 21:37
Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote) wrote... > Because you pointed your Motorola account at the same .PST file that > your regular account uses. I didn't "point" it anywhere. It did it all by itself. The way that I understand how Windows XP works with multiple users is that the data files for the various apps are created under Documents and Settings/username (or whatever the full pathname is called). Hence I was hoping that Outlook would be created with a fresh and blank profile for "Motorola", the second account. Anyway, I've given up on the idea. I can synch selected appointments etc. using my normal account. I have backed up the phonebook data using the Motorola tools and the data in the phonebook has all be sorted and edited to my satisfaction. |