Resolved Outlook 2010 - renaming a pst file

My wife old W7 desktop is deteriorating so we are moving her software and data to a newer Windows 10 computer. The unit has Outlook 2010 already on it.

I copied her Outlook Data file off of her present computer, set up her email on the new one, and then moved the original data file to a flash drive. But when I tried to restart Outlook it did not find her data file. I had to copy the original back into the folder to get Outlook to properly load.

The original file on the computer we want to use was named outlook.pst

Her pst data file is a different name.

Can I just copy over her pst file and then rename it so Outlook finds it, or is there some data connection that will prevent me from "fooling it" like that?

Otherwise, I think I'll need to export the various pieces of her data and then restore them as part of the pst file that works.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Pete, thanks. That solved the issue for us.