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I use Outlook 2007 for email. I also happen to use the categories for organizing my mail. This function is cool, because you can use keyboard shortcuts that make categorizing mail quick and easy. The problem I am having is that, since I use Google Apps Sync at home and at work, I can't seem to figure out how to transfer the existing category assignments that I spent months creating at work.
As my email comes and goes, I assign this and that, with thousands of messages all belonging to specific categories. When I finally installed and started using Google Apps Sync at home, the synchronization process works great, but all my messages are blank, i.e., don't have the color categories I assigned at work.
What's worse, I actually changed computers at work, and now am facing the same problem on the new workstation.
Using: Windows XP Pro, Outlook 2007, Google Apps.
Anyone run into this and find a solution?
I will give this a try... I know how to do all these steps, but I think the categories don't actually transfer. Have you tried and successfully completed this yourself? It has been a while since I actually wrote the question, so I can't remember what I tried. Thanks for a refresher anyway. – nicorellius – 2010-06-14T04:37:13.180
Actually I haven't and I don't have an Outlook installation handy to test with. I suppose I'm not 100% sure it will work, I just assumed it would. Oops. I'll test it when I get a chance. – Stephen Jennings – 2010-06-14T04:53:33.157
This is a tricky one so I don't blame you for assuming that. I will test soon as well. Let me know what you find out... – nicorellius – 2010-06-14T05:06:28.947
Looks like you are right. I did a test and saved a PST file and opened it up, and the categories were there... This still doesn't really solve my original problem, though: I need to use Google Sync for mail. What I can do is export PST, bring it into a new installation that has been synched already, and then copy messages over with the categories. The only problem, however, is that I will have duplicates of my messages. Errgh... Not quite what I was looking for. – nicorellius – 2010-06-15T16:20:55.053