If like me you want to have all your email PST files in one easy place to backup (ie on your D: drive) you might need to move your PST Files. POP3 PST easily enough but the IMAP PST are always created in the default PST location and if you try and move them like normal POP3 PST files the file will respawn with a different name in the default location redering the moved IMAP PST useless.
IMAP
How IMAP PST files are handled changes from version to version of out look and I recommen you read the article below before doing anything else. You should also consider that when you recreate an IMAP profile all of the items will re-sync anyway so the only thing you would need to do is change the default location. The articles below go into more detail about this process.
Links
- How to move IMAP data files |m Slipstick - this is the goto article and has a video showing you what happens.
- How to move the IMAP personal folder (*.pst) - This article also includes information on how to change the default location of PST files
- Move Outlook 2007 Data(pst)files from default to another directory? - A forum thread with people having the same issue.
- Outlook 2010 + Move IMAP PST file = Outlook data file cannot be accessed
- Testing the account (send/receive) works fine, but if I try to manually send an email I get error 0x8004010F Outlook data file cannot be accessed.
- One solution here is to use Symbolic Links.
- Show a lot of the registry locations
POP3
Moving POP3 PST files is really easy.
- Make sure outlook is closed
- Move the PST file
- Open Outlook and it will then error saying cannot find the PST file, you should then point it to the new location of the PST file.
- Restart Outlook for good measure.
POP3 Send and Receive Error 0x8004010F
Occasionally you will get an error 0x8004010F which is caused by internal PST links not working. The links below show you how to fix the broken links.
- Fix the error "Outlook data file cannot be accessed error (0x8004010F)" - YouTube - The following video shows you cleary what to do to fix it:
- Fixed: Outlook 2013/2010 Error 0x8004010F When You Try to Send or Receive Email | Exchange Server & MS Outlook Blog
- It Is Solved: 0x8004010F: Outlook data file cannot be accessed.