{"id":794,"date":"2010-06-28T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/28\/outlook-2010-auto-complete-files\/"},"modified":"2010-06-28T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:21:44","slug":"outlook-2010-auto-complete-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/28\/outlook-2010-auto-complete-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook 2010 &ndash; Auto Complete Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one as a reminder as it caught me out!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably aware that Outlook stores the names that appear when you type a mail recipient in an .NK2 file. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"362\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In the past when moving a user between PCs all we needed to do with grab the .NK2 file from the old PC and copy it to the new PC.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Outlook 2010 doesn\u2019t use an NK2 file anymore!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re using Outlook 2010 look at your contacts folders. You should see a folder called \u201cSuggested Contacts\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"235\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This where the names are now stored. <\/p>\n<p>The idea is that you can easily manage them and more importantly because the names are stored in your mailbox they will follow you around on different PCs. <\/p>\n<p>So the main thing is how do you transfer them across from an old PC running an older version of Outlook?<\/p>\n<p>There is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article detailing the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/980542\">thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put,<\/p>\n<p>Outlook has a command line flag \u201c\/importNK2\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Grab the NK2 file on the old PC from one of the following locations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP      <br \/><var>Drive<\/var>:\\Documents and Settings\\Username\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Outlook <\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista and later versions      <br \/><var>Drive<\/var>:\\Users\\Username\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Outlook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Browse to the folder <strong><em>\u201c%appdata%\\Microsoft\\Outlook\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure the NK2 file is in that folder and the filename matches your Outlook profile name.<\/p>\n<p>e.g <em>Andy.NK2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Run Outlook with the switc<\/p>\n<p>Outlook.exe \/importNK2<\/p>\n<p>Done!<\/p>\n<p>The KB article says that the import process renames the file with a .file extension but this didn\u2019t seem to happen when I did it. (though it might have just been me!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Note if you perform an upgrade from an old version of Outlook to Outlook 2010 this should have been done for you automatically<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one as a reminder as it caught me out! You\u2019re probably aware that Outlook stores the names that appear when you type a mail recipient in an .NK2 file. 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