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Weekly quickTIP: Losing All Contact
By Greg Shields
Not too long ago I moved my entire universe from my old
computer to a
new one. Though the process was a lot easier than previous
moves, I
found one item in particular to be missing. Specifically, I
wanted
to retain the e-mail addresses in Outlook's drop-down menu
when I
typed them into the To: field. Having used Outlook's
autocomplete
feature exclusively for years as my primary mechanism for
finding
an address, starting with a blank slate had me scrambling
for
contacts.
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You see, an Outlook PST migration doesn't include those
autocomplete
addresses. They're not stored within your Outlook PST.
Instead
they're stored in a file with an .NK2 extension elsewhere in
your
profile. Making this migration even more challenging is that
the
location of the NK2 in Vista is different than where it was
back
on my old Windows XP machine.
For pre-Vista machines, the NK2 is stored in C:Documents
and
SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook.
What's
interesting is that this is not the place where Outlook PSTs
are
stored by default. For pre-Vista machines, that location is
C:Documents and SettingsLocal
SettingsApplication
DataMicrosoftOutlook, which is a slightly different path
that
meanders its way through the Local Settings folder.
On Vista machines, as you probably know, the path for
profile
information is quite a bit different. Thus, the ultimate
resting
place for the NK2 is different as well. For Vista, you'll
want to
deposit your NK2 into the C:Users
AppDataRoamingMicrosoftOutlook folder. Once there,
Outlook
will begin using that file again to populate the drop-down
list.
While looking for this file, you may also want to look
through it
as well. If you've been annoyed by the number and
uselessness of
certain addresses in your drop-down list, you can eliminate
them
from this file to remove them from your drop-down list.
Doing this,
however, is no trivial task. You can't just open this file
in
Notepad.
To edit your NK2, download a freeware tool called NK2.Info
http://www.nk2.info/ .
This tool shows you the addresses stored in
the file and allows you to add and remove addresses as
necessary.
Another more fully featured, for-cost tool that works for
larger
migrations is made by Ingressor Software http://www.ingressor.com/ .
Comment: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=2
419#post
Greg Shields, MCSE: Security, CCEA, is an independent
author,
instructor, and consultant based in Denver, Colo. A
contributing
editor to Redmond magazine, MCPmag.com and a popular speaker
at
TechMentor events, Greg?s recent book "Windows Server
2008:
What's New/What's Changed" is now available at
www.sapienpress.com.
Greg is resident editor for Realtime Publishers' Windows
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