Changing default file location in Outlook 2000

[pathebert]

I have a user who would like to have the default file location in insert files in Outlook 2000 changed. By default, it points to My Documents and he would like it to default to his network folder.

I went to the MS site and used kb 252732, a registry hack. Once I finished, I re-started outlook and tried inserting a file but it will point to the C drive instead of My Documents. It did not go to the network resource.

This is the path I used: \servername\jdoe. Is the path I'm using the problem? Can you point to a network rather than local resource to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[joegz]

Instead of putting the server and share name name in the path put the drive letter instead and then any subsequent folder.






joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[pathebert]

Thanks for the suggestion joegz. I put in e:\jdoe in the registry and it still didn't bring me to the network resource. Have you gotten this to work?

 

[joegz]

Yes I have gotten this to work. Basically it routes the My Docuements folder to my network drive H:

All I really did is make the change in the registry like the MS article states. joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."