Here's what I did: I copied the .PST from the desktop, put it on the laptop
and opened the data file. Stopped email from downloading and made a subfolder
off the inbox and moved all of my inbox into it. I then let the emails
download all the way, took note of what date I already had in the original
inbox and when all the email downloaded I was able to delete everything in
the inbox that i already had. I then moved everything back into the inbox and
I can either delete the folder or use it the next time. At least it was
faster than having to go through all the duplicates!

Thanks for your help as always.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

sparklinbluiz wrote:

So is there a way around this Brian?

Not as far as I can tell.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

sparklinbluiz wrote:

Here's what I did: I copied the .PST from the desktop, put it on the
laptop and opened the data file. Stopped email from downloading and
made a subfolder off the inbox and moved all of my inbox into it. I
then let the emails download all the way, took note of what date I
already had in the original inbox and when all the email downloaded I
was able to delete everything in the inbox that i already had. I then
moved everything back into the inbox and I can either delete the
folder or use it the next time. At least it was faster than having to
go through all the duplicates!

An alternative is to use the webmail interface to your ISP mailbox, create a
different folder there, and move all your old messages to that folder. If
it's not in the mailbox's Inbox, Outlook can't see it when it downloads.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]