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Since I'll now be traveling a bit, and will need access to all email, sent and received, from either of two locations, I'm attempting to set up an IMAP account for my email on my laptop. My email is 'hosted' by our web and email hosting firm and this has pretty much always worked before under Office 2010 - but it is giving me fits under Office 2016.
So - step-by-step: First, I exported all email from the pre-existing data in the POP accont .pst file (just to make certain I don't "lose" anything) and then deleted the old email setup. Now I'm trying to setup and configure this IMAP account. But I REALLY want to have the .ost file on the much larger 'data' disk in my laptop, rather than the smallish SSD drive it boots from. I've had some decent luck with a similar configuration before this when I used Outlook 2010, with no apparent issues, but now that we're on Office 2016 (and thus Outlook 2016), I cannot seem to change the location of the IMAP .ost file to the "F:' drive (data disk) regardless of what I try.
I've read about and performed the registry alterations that were discussed in other posts: IE: creating a new registry entry in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook with the requisite entry: REG_EXPAND_SZ -> ForceOSTPath -> F:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. And I then deleted the automatically created .ost file (which Outlook 2016 seems adamant about implementing) from the default location: IE: C:\users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. I then simply 'rebooted' the laptop and then recreated the IMAP account 'from scratch' .... but I just cannot make it use the "F:" drive which is more than 20X larger than my SSD. I've also read that this is PRIMARILY meant for a 'hosted exchange" account, and not necessarily for an IMAP account, so... Hmmm... What am I NOT doing, or 'skipping'? Is there no means to change this location, or am I going to be forced to go purchase a much larger SSD and and then 'clone' my Windows 10 to this new disk? GOTTA think there's a way to do this... right?
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So - step-by-step: First, I exported all email from the pre-existing data in the POP accont .pst file (just to make certain I don't "lose" anything) and then deleted the old email setup. Now I'm trying to setup and configure this IMAP account. But I REALLY want to have the .ost file on the much larger 'data' disk in my laptop, rather than the smallish SSD drive it boots from. I've had some decent luck with a similar configuration before this when I used Outlook 2010, with no apparent issues, but now that we're on Office 2016 (and thus Outlook 2016), I cannot seem to change the location of the IMAP .ost file to the "F:' drive (data disk) regardless of what I try.
I've read about and performed the registry alterations that were discussed in other posts: IE: creating a new registry entry in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook with the requisite entry: REG_EXPAND_SZ -> ForceOSTPath -> F:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. And I then deleted the automatically created .ost file (which Outlook 2016 seems adamant about implementing) from the default location: IE: C:\users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. I then simply 'rebooted' the laptop and then recreated the IMAP account 'from scratch' .... but I just cannot make it use the "F:" drive which is more than 20X larger than my SSD. I've also read that this is PRIMARILY meant for a 'hosted exchange" account, and not necessarily for an IMAP account, so... Hmmm... What am I NOT doing, or 'skipping'? Is there no means to change this location, or am I going to be forced to go purchase a much larger SSD and and then 'clone' my Windows 10 to this new disk? GOTTA think there's a way to do this... right?
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