> The only thing I use Outlook for is Contacts -- and I am very
> conscientious
> about backing up the PST file on a regular basis.
>
> The procedure I follow is ...
> Import and Export ...
> Export to a file ...
> Personal Folder File (.pst) ...
> Contacts (include subfolders) ...
> Replace Duplicates with items exported.
>
> Then I Import that file into Outlook on another computer ...
> Import from another program or file ...
> Personal Folder File (.pst) ...
> Replace duplicates with items imported ...
> Include subfolders ...
> Import items into the same folder in Personal Folders.
>
> That's when completely non-sensical things happen.
>
> 1) Even when I delete all the entries in the main Contacts folder on the
> target computer before importing the new ones, my number of contacts
> increases from 513 to 524. That I can live with -- even though I wonder
> if I
> can trust the integrity of the entries.
>
> 2) One subfolder has the same number of entries after importing the backup
> file.
>
> 3) But the other subfolder's entries are totally insane. The number of
> files in that subfolder is 233. But the number that winds up on the
> target/computer is 15,488!!!
>
> Even when I manually deleted all the entries in the subfolder before
> importing, it then took the number of entries in that subfolder down to
> "only" 2,958.
>
> Is it not reasonable to expect the target/backup computer's entries to be
> a
> mirror image of the backup file???
>