Situation
On a laptop with the first small SSD drive, I want to move the outlook data file to another large disk (to free up more space on the SSD)
Task
Transfer the Outlook 2016 data file to another drive (in general, to another location)
What did not work?
a rough move of the file and the restart of Outlook did not help. Outlook 2016 recreates its file in the old location.
What worked
solution for Windows 10Creating a symbolic link
Steps:
1. Close Outlook
2. Move the .ost data file (it is usually stored C: \ Users \ (user) \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ Outlook \).
3. Make a symbolic link
mklink "C: \ Users \ (user) \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ Outlook \ (filename) .ost" "D: \ Outlook \ (filename) .ost"
Do not forget to replace
(user) and (filename) to real values
Related links
Moving the ost-file or pst-file of an Outlook.com or IMAP account
(this is about the creation of symbolic links)https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/movingostpstoutlookcomimap.htm
Move the ost-file to another disk or folder location
https://www.msoutlook.info/question/463
here it is said that for the Outlook 2016 the file transfer method does not work
