Backup/Restore Auto Complete Name in Outlook

 

Backup/ Restore Auto Complete names in Outlook

 

Mostly all outlook users are habitual to convenience of outlook's autocomplete feature
which  is autocompleting recipient names as you begin to type them and we mostly
never add those addresses permanently in address book .

But sometimes we may need to move to another computer or we may need to format our
windows operating system for some reason. In such cases, we normally copy/backup
only  PST files and Address books, but neither PST file nor address book file
keeps a copy of email addresses which you unknowingly stored in outlook's
autocomplete cache.

 

Here is how to
backup/restore Auto Complete names in outlook.

• Close all running Outlook
  instances.
• On the computer which is having
  autocomplete names, go to C:\Documents
  and Settings\username\Application
  Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder
• Copy the file  profilename.NK2 . Here profilename is the name of outlook profile
  e.g. if my outlook profile name is  abc then file would be abc.NK2 or it will be Outlook.NK2 if your outlook profile name is "Outlook"
  . If you are
  using Windows 7, then you can locate this file under C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

• Paste the file to the same
  location as above to the respective computer on which you want to populate the
  autocomplete feature. If the outlook user profile name is different on new
  computer where you are moving .NK2 file, then you MUST rename the file with the
  same Outlook user profile name after you copy it to the correct folder. For
  example, if you copied sumit.nk2 from the original computer with
  an Outlook user profile name of sumit, and if outlook profile name on
  the new computer is sumitnew , then you must rename sumit.nk2 to sumitnew.nk2 on new computer.

Open Outlook and
you will be able to see the same autocomplete names which you were able

to see earlier
Hpatel